The Programming Systems Lab

Gail Kaiser, Director

PSL conducts research on social software engineering, collaborative work, privacy and security, software reliability, self-managing systems, parallel and distributed systems, Web technologies, information management, and software development environments and tools.

We are always seeking new project students to join us. Students who would like to become involved should review the project literature and descriptions, as well as the specific advertisements.

Students Meeting in PSL

PSL at work

Active Projects »

Managing Sensitive Data on Mobile Devices

Supporting privacy requirements on mobile devices

Overcoming the Intuition Wall: Automatic Graphical Analysis of Programs to Discover and Program New Computer Architectures

A joint project encompassing computer architecture, machine learning and software engineering

An Open Software Framework for the Emulation and Verification of Drosophila Brain Models on Multiple GPUs

Software frameworks and tools to emulate fly brains

Software Testing for Non-Testable Programs

Automating metamorphic testing techniques at runtime

In Vivo Testing

Executing tests in the deployment environment, using the state of the running application

Societal Computing

Exploring the impact of computational tradeoffs on societal concerns such as Privacy, Green Computing, Sustainability, and Cultural Differences

ARIS

Automated Online Evaluation for Improving Cyber-Physical System Reliability

genSpace

Enabling collaboration support for users of the geWorkbench computational biology tool