Steven Ngo

Software Engineering Ph.D. Student

Steven Ngo received a B.S. degree in software engineering with a minor in psychology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a second-year software engineering Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Computer Sciences, and Department of Informatics, at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts research in the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity, specifically on software security and security review processes. He is also a security research engineer intern with Samsung Research America and the President of Cyber@UCI.

Joshua Garcia

Assistant Professor

Joshua Garcia received a B.S. degree in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Southern California (USC), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from USC. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Computer Sciences, and Department of Informatics, at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts research in software engineering with a focus on software analysis and testing, software security, and software architecture. He is also a member of ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Community on Software Engineering.

Jessy Ayala

Software Engineering Ph.D. Student

Jessy Ayala received a B.S. in mathematics-computer science and an M.Ed. in education from the University of California, San Diego, as well as an M.S. degree in cybersecurity from New York University. He is a third-year PhD student at the School of Information and Computer Sciences, and Department of Informatics, at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts research in software engineering with a focus on open-source security and the vulnerability disclosure lifecycle. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society and Vice Chair of the Cybersecurity Special Interest Group of the IEEE San Diego Chapter.