Secure, Trustworthy, and Intelligent Software Engineering Lab
Advancing secure, trustworthy, and intelligent software
NEXUS Lab is a research lab in Lakeland, FL, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at Florida Polytechnic University. We study the security, quality, and trustworthiness of modern software systems — and develop empirical and AI-driven methods and tools to understand, evaluate, and improve them.
What we work on
Research areas
Our research spans software security and privacy, mobile security and malware analysis, trustworthy AI, AI for software engineering, software analysis and quality, and empirical software engineering.
Explore our researchMobile Security & Malware Analysis
Trustworthy AI
AI for Software Engineering
Software Analysis & Quality
Empirical Software Engineering
Featured artifacts
Open research artifacts
Dataset · 2026
AndroMetric
Multi-dimensional software metrics for large-scale Android security and software analytics research.
Dataset · 2026
SMELLDroid
A large-scale dataset for studying Android code smells, maintainability, and software quality.
Dataset · 2026
MIRROR
Structural metrics for original and repackaged Android apps, enabling repackaging and similarity studies.
Recent work
Selected publications
IEEE Access · 2026
Large Language Models for Malware Detection
A systematic review, taxonomy, and open challenges for LLM-enabled malware detection.
IEEE ICSA · 2026
Security-Aware Architectural Smells in Android
Rethinking MVC violations through a security-aware architectural lens.
IEEE ICST · 2026
Automated Android Bug Reproduction with LLMs
Evaluating whether LLMs can reliably reproduce Android application bugs.
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