Welcome to SoftMax Research Laboratory at NC State University!
North Carolina State University
SoftMax Lab
We transform complex Security and Privacy problems in Software Engineering into actionable solutions.
Recent News
December, 2025: One work titled How Do Semantically Equivalent Code Transformations Impact Membership Inference on LLMs for Code? is accepted by Research Track of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026). Congrats Hua and Nazmul! September, 2025: Our team has developed a framework named Evaloop to fairly assess LLMs' robustness for programming. Based on this, we are actively mainteining a leaderboard with the results on more than 100 LLMs. Check it out at https://evalooop.github.io!
September, 2025: One work titled How Quantization Impacts Privacy Risk on LLMs for Code? is accepted by Main Track of 2nd ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware 2025). Congrats Nazmul and Hua! August, 2025: One work titled Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models wins Best Paper Award at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2024!
July, 2025: One work titled Learning From the Best: What Makes Popular Hugging Face Models? A Registered Report is accepted by Registered Report Track of International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). Congrats Yinan!