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Don’t let Generative AI Create Just-In-Time Knowledge Work

An examination of the tradeoff between economic prosperity and national security that GenAI offers us

12h ago

12h ago

Different Contributions Require Different Novelty Arguments

This is another post in my series of capturing conversations I've had with graduate students that contain some kernel of insight I thought…

6d ago

6d ago

PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models

This blog post summarizes our work “PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models”, which appeared at the 2025…

Nov 24, 2025

PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models

Nov 24, 2025

LEMIX: Enabling Testing of Embedded Applications as Linux Applications

This blog post summarizes our recent work, “LEMIX: Enabling Testing of Embedded Applications as Linux Applications”, which appeared at the…

Sep 2, 2025

LEMIX: Enabling Testing of Embedded Applications as Linux Applications

Sep 2, 2025

Phishing Training Still Isn’t Working, So Why Are We Still Paying for It?

As anyone who works with me professionally knows, I’m an empiricist at heart. I’m excited to share this recent work on phishing training!

Jun 19, 2025

Phishing Training Still Isn’t Working, So Why Are We Still Paying for It?

Jun 19, 2025

SoK: A Literature and Engineering Review of Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

The digest version of AsiaCCS’25 paper: “SoK: A Literature and Engineering Review of Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)”.

Jun 3, 2025

SoK: A Literature and Engineering Review of Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Jun 3, 2025

Mitigating Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Zero-Trust Dependencies

This is a brief for the research paper “ZTDJava: Mitigating Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Zero-Trust Dependencies”, published…

May 7, 2025

Mitigating Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Zero-Trust Dependencies

May 7, 2025

Prof. Davis’s Advice on Applying to Graduate School in Computing in the USA

Notes about applying to graduate school

Apr 28, 2025

Apr 28, 2025

Essential vs. Accidental Arguments in Novelty Claims for System Design

Thoughts on the effective analysis of software systems in research.

Apr 15, 2025

Essential vs. Accidental Arguments in Novelty Claims for System Design

Apr 15, 2025

An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security

This is a brief for the research paper “An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security”, at USENIX Security…

Apr 10, 2025

An Industry Interview Study of Software Signing for Supply Chain Security

Apr 10, 2025

James Davis

James Davis

I am a professor in ECE@Purdue. My research assistants and I blog here about research findings and engineering tips.

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