JamieDavis

@CoryBooker @nytimes @FoxNews The US House has dropped Article 1 Sections 9-10 from their public version of the US Constitution. constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ Aug 6 version (missing): web.archive.org/web/2025080610… July 17 version: web.archive.org/web/2025071709…

@AmPaschal01 Hot take: The only long-term use case of LLMs in SE is as a tool to develop arbitrary transformations from one representation to another.

Everyday, I keep getting amazed by how useful LLMs can be in research… A research assistant I’m working with wanted to work on moving experiment reports from JSON/CSV formats to HTML for easier analysis. He, at first, estimated it’ll take a few days.

Two #PurdueECE PhD students won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for research that makes formal software verification faster, easier, and more secure, uncovering 20 hidden bugs and aiming to bring this powerful technique to everyday developers. bit.ly/ece-qfellow

My student Berk Çakar co-led a paper at @asiaccs2025 that provides a Systematization of Knowledge (SOK) on Regex Denial of Service. This paper includes a literature review as well as an "engineering review" of regex engine changes. Read more: davisjam.medium.com/sok-a-literatu…

"The paper is well-written and a joy to read" -- Reviewer 2 Rating: Reject -- Also Reviewer 2.

My student @AmPaschal01 recently presented his work "ZTDJava" at @ICSEconf. He brought a new perspective to securing systems with third-party components, based on NIST's Zero-Trust Architecture paradigm. Here's a blog post summarizing the work: davisjam.medium.com/mitigating-sof…

A team of #PurdueECE students has built a record-breaking machine that solves a RUBIK’S Cube faster than the blink of an eye 👁️! Congrats to Brock Berta, Aden Hurd, Junpei Ota, & Matthew Patrohay on this remarkable achievement! Come see the machine today (Fri) until 3 in MSEE!

Some thoughts about novelty claims in systems research: davisjam.medium.com/essential-vs-a…

For the fourth consecutive year, #PurdueECE's graduate programs are in the top ten in U.S. News & World Report! The EE and CmpE programs ranked #9 in the latest @usnews rankings. Details: bit.ly/rankings25-ece

My student Kelechi Kalu led a paper on software signing to USENIX Security'25. It was a great qualitative complement to my group's quantitative study at S&P'24. Kelechi's blog post writeup is available here: davisjam.medium.com/an-industry-in…

I share the following advice from Lamport with many students. Now I share it with you. lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-the…

@CVPR This makes me so happy. Thank you for your leadership.

Following a thorough investigation, the Program Chairs (PCs) decided to desk-reject 19 papers authored by confirmed highly irresponsible reviewers, which would have been accepted otherwise, in accordance with the previously communicated CVPR 2025 policies. 2/2

#CVPR2025 Area Chairs (ACs) identified a number of highly irresponsible reviewers, those who either abandoned the review process entirely or submitted egregiously low-quality reviews, including some generated by large language models (LLMs). 1/2

@xwang_lk Why don't you look at the GRE scores?

@TheDavisJam I don’t look at the GRE scores at all. I don’t even notice if the applicants submitted the GRE scores or not.

Advice: If you are good at standardized tests and are applying to STEM grad school, then you should take the GRE and include your scores.

@xwang_lk Many schools no longer require GRE. That means the people who submit high scores are at an advantage, because we have some quantitative means of comparing the applicants.

@TheDavisJam Or only apply to schools that don't require GRE. Personally, I find GRE useless, the English part is no use after the test, and the math is just too easy.

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The US is a representative democracy. The legislative branch is constituted of representatives who (at least nominally) act in the interests of their constituents. It is the duty of US citizens to inform their representatives of their views. Today I did so. Did you?

@b_vasilescu Congratulations Bogdan!

Overjoyed and incredibly proud to receive the best possible news: I’VE BEEN GRANTED TENURE AT CMU! 🎉

@sabeerawa05 @ICSEconf @LiliWei_SE @LFPaganini @AdrianaSejfia @sigsoft @smew Saber, do not ask questions like this in a public forum.

@ICSEconf Hi @LiliWei_SE, @ICSEconf, @LFPaganini, @TheDavisJam @adrianasejfia, @sigsoft, I'm following up on my email regarding the @SMeW. I'm eager to hear back as the Canadian visa application process requires significant time. Could you please provide an update when possible?

#icse2025 will feature 2 panels as part of the main conference program: "The Future of Software Engineering Beyond the Hype of AI" and "Escaped from the Lab! Does ICSE Research Make a Difference?" See more about the panels and panelists here: conf.researchr.org/info/icse-2025…

My lab published this paper in JSS. It's behind a paywall because I didn't have $3500, but here's a link anyone can use for 50 days! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #openscience