Publications

9 peer-reviewed papers and 2 preprints in software security and vulnerability research.

2026

Workshop Paperpublished

Process-based Indicators of Vulnerability Re-Introducing Code Changes: An Exploratory Case Study

Samiha Shimmi, Nicholas M Synovic, Mona Rahimi, George K Thiruvathukal

The International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Management (SVM) 2026

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Preprint

TraceVIC: Causal Reasoning over Code Evolution for Identifying Vulnerability-Inducing Commits

F. Tanish, Samiha Shimmi, S. Chapagain, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi, L. Zhang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.26711

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2025

Preprint

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review

Samiha Shimmi, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10280

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Workshop Paperpublished

Enhanced Detection of Code Vulnerability with Synergy Between Data-Driven, Rule-Based, and Unsupervised Learnings

Hibah Mohammed Ghouse, Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi

6th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) @ ICSE 2025

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2024

Workshop Paperpublished

Software Vulnerability Detection Using LLM: Does Additional Information Help?

Samiha Shimmi, Yash Saini, Mark Schaefer, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi

Workshop on AI for Cyber Threat Intelligence (WAITI 2024) @ ACSAC 2024

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Conference Paperpublished

VulSim: Leveraging similarity of Multi-Dimensional neighbor embeddings for vulnerability detection

Samiha Shimmi, Ashiqur Rahman, Mohan Gadde, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi

33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2024)

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Journal Articlepublished

On Association of Code Change Types and CI Build Failures in Software Repositories

Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi

European Journal of Information Technologies and Computer Science (Ej-Compute 2024)

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2022

Workshop Paperpublished

Software Repositories for Patternizing Attack-and-Defense Co-Evolution

Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi

MSR4P&S, 1st International Workshop @ ESEC/FSE 2022

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Conference Paperpublished

Leveraging Code-Test Co-evolution Patterns for Automated Test Case Recommendation

Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi

3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2022)

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Conference Paperpublished

Patterns of Code-to-Test Coevolution for Automated Test Suite Maintenance

Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi

IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST 2022)

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2020

Conference Paperpublished

Analysis of iOS SQLite Schema Evolution for Updating Forensic Data Extraction Tools

Samiha S. Shimmi, Gokila Dorai, Umit Karabiyik, Sudhir Aggarwal

International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS 2020)

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