Mar, 2026
Software Engineering, Software Security, and Program Analysis
Jordan Samhi
Research Scientist
University of Luxembourg
Research scientist building practical methods to improve software quality, trustworthiness, and security through program analysis and empirical research.
Software Engineering
Software Security
Program Analysis
I conduct research at the intersection of Software Engineering and Security, advancing program analysis of complex and heterogeneous software systems by combining static, dynamic, and AI-driven approaches.
About
About me
I serve as a Research Scientist at the University of Luxembourg, in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) specializing in Software Security and Software Engineering. I contribute to the Trustworthy Software Engineering (TruX) Research Group research group's ongoing efforts in this field. My research focuses on automating software security through program analysis, with a particular interest in improving the comprehensiveness and soundness of analysis techniques to ensure secure and reliable software systems. Additionally, I foster efforts to automating practical, industry-relevant tasks using cutting-edge technologies. Prior to my current role, I pursued my Ph.D. at the University of Luxembourg under the expert guidance of Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein and Prof. Dr. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, as well as a Postdoc at CISPA working with Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller. During my doctoral studies, I visited and collaborated with Prof. Dr. Michael D. Ernst and Prof. Dr. René Just, both members of the PLSE research group at the University of Washington, USA
News
Latest news
Feb, 2026
🇩🇪 Visiting Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden in Paderborn, Germany!
Feb, 2026
🇫🇷 Attending the first edition of the Alliance Cyber in Paris!
Dec, 2025
🇸🇳 Currently attending a workshop in Dakar as part of the SnT4Dev project (more info) together with the GIM-UEMOA.
Dec, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at ICSE (NIER Track) 2026, congrats Marco Alecci!
Nov, 2025
🚀 Good news! The AndroThreat project has been accepted for funding! (465.7k€)
Nov, 2025
🚀 Good news! Google.org Luxembourg awarded us $25 000 worth of GCP Credits 🤖
Nov, 2025
🇰🇷 I am attending ASE 2025 in Seoul, South Korea!
Nov, 2025
📺 There even is a video here.
Nov, 2025
📰 You can read my recent interview from SnT here.
Oct, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at TOSEM, congrats Marco Alecci!
Oct, 2025
🇸🇦 Visiting our colleague Prof. Saad Ezzini at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia!
Sep, 2025
🚀 Good news! Google.org has decided to support us with a 200 000 euros gift for our research on "From Multi-Linguality to Cross-Linguality via Multimodality"
Aug, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at ASE (NIER Track) 2025, congrats Tiezhu Sun!
Aug, 2025
🎉 Our Static Analysis Workshop will have its second edition this year, co-located with ICSE 2026!
July, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at ICSME (NIER Track) 2025, congrats Tiezhu Sun!
July, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at JSS 2025, congrats Léuson Da Silva!
Jun, 2025
🇳🇴 I attended FSE 2025 in Trondheim, Norway!
Jun, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at ICSE 2026, congrats Alberick Djire!
Jun, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at EMSE 2025, congrats Alioune Diallo!
Jun, 2025
🇫🇷 I attended the SSTIC 2025 in Rennes! 🌳
Apr, 2025
🎤 I delivered a talk at the 1st International Workshop on Advancing Static Analysis for Researchers and Industry Practitioners in Software Engineering, co-located with ICSE 2025 (STATIC 2025) in Ottawa (Canada)!
Apr, 2025
🇨🇦 I attended ICSE 2025 in Ottawa! 🍁
Apr, 2025
🎤 I delivered two invited talks at the Cyberus Spring School 2025 (Titles: Program Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities and Mobile Security: years of improvement, yet challenges remain)
Mar, 2025
🥳 One paper accepted at TOSEM 2025!
Mar, 2025
🎤 I delivered a talk at the Inaugural FutureFinTech Federated Conference 2025 (F3C2025) in Luxmebourg!
Mar, 2025
🥳 Two papers accepted at FSE-IVR 2025, congrats to all my co-authors!
Dec, 2024
Dec, 2024
🥳 One paper accepted at SANER, congrats Pedro Jesús Ruiz Jiménez!
Nov, 2024
💼 I recently started a new position at the University of Luxembourg as a Research Scientist!
Oct, 2024
📺📰 I recently got a lot of visibility for my research : 🎓 University of Luxembourg, 💼 LinkedIn, 🔬 Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), 📺 Youtube, 🗞️ Luxembourg Wort, 🧪 National Research Fund of Luxembourg, 📸 Youtube Short, 💼 LinkedIn, and 🎙️RTL !
Oct, 2024
🎉 I received an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from the National Research Fund of Luxembourg!
Sep, 2024
🥳 One paper accepted at TOSEM, congrats Yonghui Liu!
Sep, 2024
🇦🇹 I attended and presented a paper at ISSTA 2024 in Vienna! 🎻
Aug, 2024
🎉 Our Static Analysis Workshop proposal has been accepted at ICSE 2025!
Jul, 2024
🥳 One paper accepted at ISSTA 2024!
May, 2024
🎉 I got recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer for TSE!
Apr, 2024
🥳 One paper accepted at FSE 2024!
Apr, 2024
🇵🇹 I attended ICSE 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal and presented a paper at MSR! 🐟
Jan, 2024
🥳 One paper accepted at MSR 2024!
Oct, 2023
🥳 One paper accepted at TDSC, congrats Marco Alecci!
Dec, 2023
🎉 I received an Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award from the University of Luxembourg!
Oct, 2023
🎉 First CORE project (UNLOCK) written accepted for funding (739k€)!
Oct, 2023
🥳 One paper accepted at ICSE 2024, congrats Marco Alecci!
Sep, 2023
🎤 I delivered a keynote at A-Mobile 2023 (Title: On the Soundness of Android Static Analysis)
Sep, 2023
👨🔬 I started a new Post-Doc position at CISPA with Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller
Aug, 2023
🚀 I released the first version of AndroSpecter, a library to facilitate the static analysis of Java programs and Android apps!
Jul, 2023
🎙 I was interviewed by Research Luxembourg: I shared insights from my research in Software Engineering and Software Security
May, 2023
🇦🇺 I attended ICSE 2023 in Melbourne, Australia! 🦘
Mar, 2023
🥳 One paper accepted at MobileSoft 2023, congrats Maria Kober!
Mar, 2023
🇲🇴 I attended and presented a paper at SANER 2023 in Macau SAR, China! 🎰
Jan, 2023
👨🎓 I successfully defended my Ph.D.! 🎓
Dec, 2022
🥳 One paper accepted at SANER 2023!
Nov, 2022
🇸🇬 I attended FSE 2022 in Singapore!
Sep, 2022
🥳 One paper accepted at TOSEM, congrats Xiaoyu Sun!
May, 2022
🇺🇸 I attended and presented two papers at ICSE 2022 in Pittsburgh, USA!
Mar, 2022
🥳 One paper accepted at MSR 2022!
Feb, 2022
🇺🇸 I started a 4-month visiting research stay at the University of Washington with Prof. Dr. Michael D. Ernst and Prof. Dr. René Just in Seattle (WA), USA!
Dec, 2021
🚀 First JUMP project (SECUBOX) written accepted for funding (250k€)!
Dec, 2021
🥳 Two papers accepted at ICSE 2022!
Aug, 2021
🥳 One paper accepted at TDSC!
Aug, 2021
🥳 One paper accepted at MLHat, congrats Nadia Daoudi!
Jan, 2021
🥳 One paper accepted at EMSE!
Dec, 2020
🥳 One paper accepted at ICSE 2021!
Mar 2020
🚀 My Ph.D. was accepted for funding thanks to the FNR (~130k€) 🥳
Publications
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Recent scientific publications
2026
Conference MobiSys Main Track
GeoTwins: Uncovering Hidden Geographic Disparities in Android Apps
The 24th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Cambridge, UK
Conference ICSE NIER Track
Replacing Training with Reasoning: Reinterpreting Classic ML Pipelines with LLMs
48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Conference ICSE Main Track
Quantifying Memorization Advantage in Code LLMs
48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025
Journal TOSEM
DamFlow: Preventing a Flood of Irrelevant Data Flows in Android Apps
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Conference EAI AFRICOMM Main Track
On the security of pre-installed Android apps in low-cost devices
17th EAI International Conference on Africa Internet infrastructure and Services
Ile-Ife, Nigeria