Preprint
AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review
Samiha Shimmi, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.10280
Publications
10 peer-reviewed papers, workshop papers, and preprints in software security and vulnerability research.
Latest Work
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 · 2026
This exploratory case study investigates process-based indicators that can help identify code changes that reintroduce vulnerabilities, providing insights into patterns and characteristics of such changes.
2025
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
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
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)
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)
2022
Workshop Paperpublished
Software Repositories for Patternizing Attack-and-Defense Co-Evolution
Samiha Shimmi, Mona Rahimi
MSR4P&S, 1st International Workshop @ ESEC/FSE 2022
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)
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)
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)