Analyzing Open Source Software Ecosystems

Description

Open source runs a lot of the world's critical software systems, but there is much that's unknown in how maintainers, developers and other parts of the software ecosystem function. Help us analyze a large corpus of open source data — both source code and patch conversations — to better understand them! We'll study things like rise to influence, authorship styles, malware analysis, topic modeling and social network analysis!

Students

• Apoorv Dixit

• Kai Zheng

• Zishen Wei

Advisors

• Jeremy Abramson

• Jim Blythe

• Alexey Tregubov

What students will learn

We'll touch on using LLMs to parse text messages and analyze code, graph databases, program analysis, and social network analysis among other skills