Recently, the Spring team announced new null-safety features in the latest Spring Boot release. These improvements prominently rely on NullAway, a static-analysis tool developed by Professor Manu Sridharan and his research group. Spring Boot Framework, as used by millions of Java applications, now recommends NullAway for build-time nullness checking to help developers eliminate NullPointerExceptions and...

Researchers from CSE, Professor Yue Dong and her PhD student Haz Sameen Shahgir, have developed BiRNA-BERT, a new RNA language model capable of processing full-length RNA sequences without the truncation limitations seen in prior models. This breakthrough allows the model to handle long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in their entirety, achieving state-of-the-art performance in lncRNA interaction...