Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
Sam's research aims to provide security insights for developers and end users of open-source software packages. His current work involves using version control repository metadata (including natural language commit/issue messages alongside other relevant datapoints) to inform adherence to secure development practices for widely depended-upon packages in NPM and similar package management systems.
He is working as a part of the Software System Research Group under the supervision of Santanu Dash and is in discussion with UK cybersecurity regulators regarding the impact of this work.
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science, BSc, University of Surrey
16 Sept 2019 → 16 Sept 2022
Award Date: 16 Sept 2022
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Research output
- 1 Article
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Do names echo semantics? A large-scale study of identifiers used in C++’s named casts
Petrescu, C. C., Smith, S., Giavrimis, R. & Dash, S., Aug 2023, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 202, 111693.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 1 Finished
Activities
- 1 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Oregon Programming Languages Summer School 2023
Sam Smith (Organiser)
26 Jun 2023 → 9 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course