Jessy is a third-year PhD Student at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a member of the SORA Lab research group led by Joshua Garcia. He studies questions centered around securing the open-source ecosystem using a variety of techniques (e.g., empirical and qualitative methods). Jessy’s current research investigates software vulnerability management (SVM), which is the collection of approaches, processes, and activities undertaken by software developers and security professionals to ensure the security and privacy of software systems and prevent or protect against associated attacks.