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Ph.D Student (3rd year),
Department of Computer Science,
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695
Email : panbala AT ncsu DOT edu


About me

I'm a graduate Student (Doctoral degree) in the Department of Computer Science at
North Carolina State University. My doctoral dissertation research is focussed on Reliability and Security Analysis of Open Source Software under the guidance of Dr. Mladen A.Vouk. Prior to this program, I earned my M.S from North Carolina State University under the guidance of Dr.Mladen Vouk. 


 My work primarily focuses on Open Source Software systems. My research focuses  on

analysis and evaluation of open source  security as a reliability engineering process. I also focus on studying user participation in open source projects and predicting project behavior based on user involvement in activities like defect correction. I also work with Dr. Tao Xie in the area of Automated Software Engineering focusing on Aspect Oriented Testing and Refactoring.