Hazeline Asuncion
Associate Professor
Dr. Hazel Asuncion received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009. Prior to coming to UW Bothell, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Software Research at the University of California, Irvine. She has also worked in industry in a variety of roles: as a software engineer at Unisys Corporation and as a traceability engineer at Wonderware Corporation where she designed a successful in-house traceability system. Her research emphasis is on traceability and she has developed a novel software traceability approach that automatically links distributed and heterogeneous information. She has investigated the tracing of software license conflicts in heterogeneously composed software systems. Dr. Asuncion is also interested in investigating the traceability challenges in other domains such as cybersecurity and e-Science.
Education
- University of California, Irvine, CA
- Ph.D. Computer Science
Research and Scholarship Interests
Dr. Asuncion research focus is on traceability, i.e. the identification of related information that may be scattered across different files, different locations, and may be owned by different groups of people. Managing related information is a fundamental task in many contexts. In software engineering, relating the design to requirements is necessary in ensuring that the system to be developed meets customer requirements. In e-Science, identifying the relationships between intermediate data sets is necessary in the repeatability of experiments.
More recently, she is investigating how to enable software engineers, who are not cybersecurity experts, to identify vulnerabilities in a software project and find ways to mitigate vulnerabilities through the use of Security Design Patterns (SDPs). This research leverages results from software traceability and data provenance research.