Alessandra Gorla
I am an associate researcher professor at
the IMDEA Software
Institute in Madrid, Spain. Prior to that, I have been
working as a postdoc
with Andreas
Zeller at
the Software
Engineering chair at Saarland University in Germany.
I obtained my PhD in the
STAR group, led by
Mauro Pezzè at
the University of Lugano in
Switzerland. My research interests are in malware detection for
mobile applications, automatic software repair, software testing
and analysis
This is my CV
I am
looking for motivated students interested in software
engineering. Contact me for internship and PhD opportunities!Mining Android App Behavior
After clustering Android
apps by their description topics, we identify outliers
in each cluster with respect to their API usage. Applied
on a set of 22,500+ Android applications, our CHABADA
prototype identified several anomalies; additionally, it
flagged 56% of novel malware as such, without requiring
any known malware patterns.
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information here!
Intrinsic Redundancy
We exploit the
intrinsic redundancy of software to make Web and Java
systems more resilient to failures. We exploited
intrinsic software redundancy also to automatically
produce test oracles. More recently, we developed a
search-based technique to automatically identify
intrisically redundant methods in Java classes.
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ICSE2013,
ICSE2014,
FSE2014.