Workshops co-chair for SPLASH 2021
I am honored to serve, along with Mehdi Bagherzadeh, as the workshops co-chair for the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH), scheduled to be held in Chicago, IL later this year.
Paper on refactorings and technical debt in Machine Learning systems accepted at ICSE 2021
Our paper entitled, “An empirical study of refactorings and technical debt in Machine Learning systems,” has been accepted to the main technical research track at the 2021 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)! Out of 602 papers, 138 were accepted, amounting to a 23% acceptance rate. Congrats to Yiming, Mehdi, Rhia, Ajani, and Anita, and thank you for all of your hard work!
Invited to participate on 2021 NSF panel
I am honored to be invited to serve as a reviewer for a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) panel.
Yiming passes the second exam
I am pleased to announce that my doctoral student Yiming Tang has successfully passed her second exam. She is now a Ph.D. candidate. Congrats, Yiming! And, thank you to the committee, Ashwin Satyanarayana and Subash Shankar!
Actor concurrency study paper accepted at OOPSLA 2020
I am excited to announce that our paper, entitled “Actor Concurrency Bugs: A Comprehensive Study on Symptoms, Root Causes, API Usages, and Differences,” was accepted at OOPSLA 2020! One hundred nine papers were approved out of 302 submissions, amounting to a 36% acceptance rate.
Allan successfully defends his thesis
Congrats to Allan Spektor for successfully defending his MA thesis, entitled Two Techniques for Automated Logging Statement Evolution, yesterday! Thank you to Subash Shankar and Saptarshi Debroy for agreeing to participate on the committee, Khant Ko Naing for administering the defense, and the student participants for their insightful questions. Congrats, Allan!

New course announcement for Fall 2020: Fundamentals of Reactive Programming (Seminar)
The Fall 2020 semester will feature a new course on the fundamentals of reactive programming, CSCI 49380/79526. (more…)
Received EAPLS best paper award at FASE 2020
We are honored to receive the 2020 European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) best paper award at the 2020 International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE ’20) for our paper entitled, “An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams” with Yiming Tang, Mehdi Beherdezeh, and Baishakhi Ray. (more…)
Received Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud credits for research
I am excited to announce that I have received $1,500 from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Credits for Research Program. (more…)