Secure Software
Software security and privacy, mobile security, malware analysis, vulnerability detection, and security assurance.
Secure, Trustworthy, and Intelligent Software Engineering Lab
Advancing secure, trustworthy, and intelligent software
NEXUS Lab is a research lab in Lakeland, FL, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at Florida Polytechnic University. We study the security, quality, and trustworthiness of modern software systems, and develop empirical and AI-driven methods and tools to understand, evaluate, and improve them.
What we work on
Research at NEXUS
We study how to make modern software systems more secure, trustworthy, and intelligent through empirical research, software analysis, and AI-driven methods.
Explore our researchTrustworthy Software & AI
Trustworthy AI, LLM reliability, false assurance, privacy, and dependable AI-enabled software systems.
Intelligent Software Engineering
AI for software engineering, software analysis and quality, empirical studies, metrics, testing, and automation.
Featured artifacts
Open Research Artifacts
Dataset · 2026
AndroMetric
Multi-dimensional software metrics for large-scale Android security and software analytics research.
Dataset · 2026
SMELLDroid
A large-scale dataset for studying Android code smells, maintainability, and software quality.
Dataset · 2026
MIRROR
Structural metrics for original and repackaged Android apps, enabling repackaging and similarity studies.
Recent work
Selected Publications
IEEE/ACM ICSE · 2027
When LLMs Say Secure
An empirical study of false assurance in Android vulnerability detection.
IEEE Access · 2026
Large Language Models for Malware Detection
A systematic review, taxonomy, and open challenges for LLM-enabled malware detection.
IEEE ICST · 2026
Automated Android Bug Reproduction with LLMs
Evaluating whether LLMs can reliably reproduce Android application bugs.
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