{"id":1197,"date":"2026-06-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:49:07","slug":"jessy-ayala-passes-his-dissertation-topic-proposal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Jessy Ayala Passes His Dissertation Topic Proposal Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2410\" height=\"1300\" src=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal.png\" alt=\"Overview of Jessy Ayala\u2019s proposed dissertation: maintainer-centered open-source vulnerability management across bug bounty reports, CVEs, disclosure, platform security features, and an AI triage tool\" class=\"wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal.png 2410w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal-1536x829.png 1536w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jessy_Ayala_Proposal-2048x1105.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2410px) 100vw, 2410px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jessy Ayala has passed his dissertation topic proposal defense. His proposed dissertation, with the working title <em>Exploring Security Challenges in Open-Source Software Through Maintainers and Vulnerability Reports<\/em>, studies how open-source maintainers handle bug bounty reports, CVEs, vulnerability disclosure, and platform security features, and proposes a maintainer-informed triage system. Many thanks to his committee members, Habiba Farrukh and Thomas Zimmermann. Congratulations, Jessy!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessy Ayala has passed his dissertation topic proposal defense. His proposed dissertation, with the working title Exploring Security Challenges in Open-Source Software Through Maintainers and Vulnerability Reports, studies how open-source maintainers handle bug bounty reports, CVEs, vulnerability disclosure, and platform security features, and proposes a maintainer-informed triage system. Many thanks to his committee members, Habiba&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1197\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jessy Ayala Passes His Dissertation Topic Proposal Defense<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}