Nicholas M. Synovic’s Website#
Hi there! I’m Nicholas M. Synovic; a current Ph.D. student at Loyola University Chicago’s (LUC) Computer Science department. I’m actively researching software engineering for science — particularly at the intersection of software engineering for science practices and pre-trained deep learning model reuse — but have broader interests in software engineering at large.
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This website is currently under construction. I am currently migrating and centralizing all of my old blog posts and writings to this new website. Thank you for your patience.
This website contains professional artifacts and writings. It also attempts to centralize my online activity for observability and rapid navigation. This website contains my latest:
Latest Blog Posts#
Tuesday, January 28, 2025: Running Deepseek-R1 Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
Blog Post Artificial Intelligence
Saturday, December 28, 2024: Installing Tailscale With Ansible
Blog Post Software Engineering
Latest Paper Preprints#
Friday, October 10, 2025: Process-based Indicators of Vulnerability Re-Introducing Code Changes: An Exploratory Case Study
Preprint Manuscript arXiv 2025 Vulnerabilities
Thursday, October 10, 2024: What do we know about Hugging Face? A systematic literature review and quantitative validation of qualitative claims
Conference Paper ESEM 2024 Literature Review
Tuesday, August 20, 2024: Challenges and practices of deep learning model reengineering: A case study on computer vision
Journal Article ESE 2024 Case Study
Monday, January 01, 2024: An automated approach for improving the inference latency and energy efficiency of pretrained CNNs by removing irrelevant pixels with focused convolutions
Conference Paper ASP-DAC 2024 Computer Vision
Thursday, October 05, 2023: PeaTMOSS: Mining Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software
Preprint Manuscript arXiv 2023 Dataset
Other Site Updates#
Book Summaries#
Friday, November 14, 2025: ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research
Book Summary Research
Monday, November 10, 2025: On Being a Scientist: A Guide To Responsible Conduct In Research
Book Summary Research