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Mahzabin Tamanna

  • PhD Student
Website
www.linkedin.com/in/mahzabin-tamanna-667142126

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Bio

Mahzabin Tamanna is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. Mahzabin joined the WSPR Lab in the Fall of 2022 and is being advised by Dr. Laurie Williams. She is currently focusing on software supply chain security and aiding software developers in designing secure and intuitive systems. Before joining NCSU, Mahzabin received her B.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from American International University-Bangladesh and her MS in computer science from North Carolina A&T State University.

Publications

  • Mahzabin Tamanna, Yash Chandrani, Matthew Burrows, Brandon Wroblewski, Laurie Williams, and and Dominik Wermke, Your Build Scripts Stink: The State of Code Smells in Build Scripts, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Nov. 2025.
  • Laurie Williams, Giacomo Benedetti, Sivana Hamer, Ranindya Paramitha, Imranur Rahman, Mahzabin Tamanna, Greg Tystahl, Nusrat Zahan, Patrick Morrison, Yasemin Acar, Michel Cukier, Christian Kästner, Alexandros Kapravelos, Dominik Wermke, and William Enck, Research Directions in Software Supply Chain Security, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), pp. 1–38, May 2025.
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  • Sivana Hamer, Nasif Imtiaz, Mahzabin Tamanna, Preya Shabrina, and Laurie Williams, Trusting code in the wild: Exploring contributor reputation measures to review dependencies in the Rust ecosystem, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 51, no. 4, Apr. 2025.
  • Md Rayhanur Rahman, Brandon Wroblewski, Mahzabin Tamanna, Imranur Rahman, Andrew Anufryienak, and Laurie Williams, Towards a Taxonomy of Challenges in Security Control Implementation, in Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2024, pp. 61–75.
  • Nusrat Zahan, Elizabeth Lin, Mahzabin Tamanna, William Enck, and Laurie Williams, Software Bills of Materials Are Required. Are We There Yet?, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 82–88, Mar. 2023. (column).