DAS Lab

Congratulations to Hassan Khatoonabadi @HKhatoonabadi for defending his PhD on Pull Request abandonment with flying colors 🚀. Super happy Hassan decided to join the DASlab as a postdoc working on SE4AI!

🎉 Excited to announce a soft launch of askgit.io from @DASLabConcordia! Chat with any GitHub repository; improving onboarding, research efforts, and code evaluations. More features will be coming soon. Big shoutout to @EmadShihab for the invaluable guidance and to @AhmadAbdellatf and @HKhatoonabadi for their support during development!

Congratulations to @Khaled_Badran9 for successfully defending his Master’s thesis on using LLMs to generate chatbot datasets (and improve training). A super interesting thesis showing real-world improvements!

Congratulations to @AbbasJavanJ on successfully defending his PhD on dependency management yesterday. Dr. Javan will join the National Bank of Canada as Principal AI Developer! So proud of you Abbas…

Delighted to announce that on Dec 1st, I'll be joining the Electrical and Software Engineering Department at @UCalgary as a tenure-track Assistant Professor! Thrilled about the next phase of my academic journey and looking forward to collaborating with colleagues at @SchulichENGG

Excited to announce that our paper "Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics" has been accepted at @acm_tosem. Huge thanks to @DiegoEliasCosta, @EmadShihab, @rabekareem, @DASLabConcordia! Pre-print available at: das.encs.concordia.ca/pdf/Javan_TOSE…

Excited to share my first academic publication "Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research" accepted to @ICSEconf SEIS 2023! Couldn't have done it without amazing co-authors @DiegoEliasCosta @EmadShihab and Tanja Tajmel! Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2302.00042

I'm delighted to share that our paper "Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?" has been accepted at @ieeecomputer! With @PierreO63662477, Amanda Kolopanis, Rached Bouchoucha, @a_collan, @DiegoEliasCosta, @UniqueThor, and @EmadShihab 1/5

@Concordia Software Engineering @CSrankings skyrocket with great presence at @FSEconf Congrats to @rigbypc and his colleagues at @Meta for the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for the paper titled "Using Nudges to Accelerate Code Reviews at Scale"

Last week I had the great opportunity of presenting my work at SEMLA international symposium and winning the best poster award! Thank you to all the organizers and volunteers, and a special thanks to Dr. @EmadShihab and @AhmadAbdellatf for helping me through this.

The panel on raising the next generation of SE4AI engineers/researchers is going strong! #SEMLA2022 #SE4AI

Today, I presented our work on production dependencies at @ASE_conf. I am linking my slides for those interested! docs.google.com/presentation/d… Our paper is also available here: arxiv.org/pdf/2207.14711…

Congratulations to new Fellow Catherine Mulligan and #CollegeofNewScholars Members @TristanGlatard & @EmadShihab on being elected to the #RSC Class of 2022. #rscBRAVOsrc @Concordia for these achievements, we look forward to welcoming you all at the #COEE2022!

Our paper "Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM" is accepted at @ASE_conf ! Thank you to my colleagues @DiegoEliasCosta and @SuhaibMujahid, and supervisor @EmadShihab for their awesome support. Preprint coming soon!

Companies invest time/money in gamification. Does it actually help software development? Our latest @FSEconf paper with 333 teams in a large company shows: 1. Gamification boosted the adoption of certain DevOps practices by helping practitioners learn **how** to adopt them.

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Computer Science department at @UQAM as an Assistant Professor this August!!! I am very excited about this new chapter of my academic career, and I look forward to working with my colleagues at the LATECE research group.

Last winter, @EmadShihab and I taught the course "Engineering AI-based Software Systems" as part of the @NSERC_CRSNG @CREATE_SE4AI Program. Today we are open-sourcing all the course materials! Check it out here: github.com/create-se4ai/e… 1/3

Delighted to share our @FSEconf'22 acceptance of the paper on Machine Learning Technical Debts. Big shoutout for David Obrien for his 1st first-author paper. It was a nice collaborative experience with Sayem, @EmadShihab, @rabekareem and @hridesh. Preprint coming soon.

Very honored and excited to serve #MSR2023 as a Program Co-Chair with @b_vasilescu (Program Co-Chair) and @EmadShihab (General Chair)! Stay tuned for more updates and look forward to seeing you at MSR2023 in Melbourne 🦘🐨🪃🇦🇺

One award goes to Nicholas Nagy for his presentation of the paper “On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code”, which he co-authored with Rabe Abdalkareem.