Welcome to the PaSS Lab

We are a dynamic research group at the department of Computer Science and at the University of Houston.

We have two overarching goals: first, understanding, proving, and guaranteeing
Software Quality, including bug finding, security vulnerability detection, and even patch generation. Second, to help improve the Software Productivity though novel approaches. We particularly focus on efficient and effective code translation and program synthesis.

We are currently building a C to Rust transpiler, a binary to LLVM pointer typifyer, an ML Security framework, and a Quantum-based Program Quality tool. We will exchange ideas with world class groups working in these areas.

News

11. May 2026

Congratulations to Steven and Shaheer for being awarded CRA’s DREU-AI fellowship for the summer 2026!

22. April 2026

PaSS Undergrad Research team won the First-place Award at the CS UG Research-Early Results!

4. Februery 2026

Welcome aboard, Hung Hoang and Shaheer H Abbasi!

2. Februery 2026

Welcome aboard, Dr. Aftab Hussain!

14. January 2026

Welcome aboard, Sana Ashfaq!

15. December 2025

Welcome aboard, Sami Hamdalla!

15. November 2025

Welcome aboard, Steven Sanchez!

10. November 2025

Welcome aboard, Mahdi Kazemi!

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