Bio
Sivana Hamer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, a Google Ph.D. Fellow and Goodnight Ph.D. Fellow. She is advised by Dr. Laurie Williams and Dr. William Enck. She joined the WSPR lab in Fall 2023. She currently researches the state of software supply chain security community to help improve the security posture of industry and open-source projects. She obtained her M.S. and B.S. from the University of Costa Rica.
Publications
- 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.
[PDF] - 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.
- Sivana Hamer, Marcelo d’Amorim, and Laurie Williams, Just another copy and paste? Comparing the security vulnerabilities of ChatGPT generated code and StackOverflow answers, in Proceedings of the IEEE Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop, co-located with IEEE S&P, May 2024, pp. 87–94.