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New student Manal joins the team
We have a new master’s student, Manal Zneit, joining us! Manal has a background in Mathematics, and she is now pursuing a degree in Computer Science. Manal is also an adjunct lecturer at CUNY Lehman College, where she teaches various introductory programming classes. She will be working on research at the intersection of Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Data Science. Welcome, Manal!
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!
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!

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…)
Received PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award
I am pleased to announce that I have recently received a PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award for a project entitled, “Safe and Efficient Parallelism via Collection API Ordering Inference.” (more…)
New doctoral student Tatiana Castro Vélez starts Fall 2020

A new doctoral student, Tatiana Castro Vélez, will join the team starting this Fall semester! Tatiana will enter the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center as a CUNY Graduate Center/Hunter College Computer Science fellow.
Tatiana is currently completing her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has worked as a software engineer in the industry at Rocksolid Technologies, where she worked with the company’s databases. Tatiana also has research experience in investigating the use of mobile app frameworks to collect data in general research projects and is president of her ACM student chapter.
Preprint now available for FASE 2020 paper
A preprint of our FASE 2020 paper entitled, “An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams,” is now available.
Journal extension accepted to Science of Computer Programming with minor revisions
A journal extension of our ICSE ’19 paper entitled, “Safe Automated Refactoring for Intelligent Parallelization of Java 8 Streams,” has been accepted with minor revisions to the Science of Computer Programming journal.