December 6, 2007

GSW CIS professor featured at Ga. Tech seminar

AMERICUS—Georgia Southwestern State University Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems Xiang Fu, Ph.D., got a special opportunity last week to lecture some of the brightest computer minds in the world.

Fu was the featured speaker Nov. 26 at a seminar hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology's software research group known as SPARC (Software engineering, Programming languages, Analysis, Reasoning and Compilers). The group conducts research related to improving the development, testing, and maintenance of software. Conducted weekly, the seminar series is known as the “SPARC Brown Bag.” It features renowned researches in software engineering and they present some of the most advanced research in the industry to nearly 30 Georgia Tech master's and doctoral students.

Specifically, Fu was invited to speak by his colleagues in Atlanta because of his innovative research.

“They read my paper on static analysis techniques, and they wanted to see our progress and compare it to their progress,” said Fu.

The title of his seminar presentation was “The application of static analysis techniques to detecting SQL (Structural Query Language) vulnerabilities of web capabilities.” This technique allows computer scientists to analyze and pinpoint areas of vulnerability in a particular program.

“Security problems are very serious issues for e-commerce and the industrial world,” said Fu. “Research in the area of static analysis helps safeguard web applications in these areas.”

Prior to his tenure at Georgia Southwestern, Fu earned a Bachelor of Science at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He earned his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Fu and his wife, Christina Cao, live in Americus.     

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