Open House + Lunch

Lunch served in DBH 6011 foyer at 12:00.  Take your lunch and eat at the location of your choice.

Open House begins at 12:30!

Attendees will be able to:

• See demonstrations and posters.
• Meet with faculty and students.
• Learn about current research projects at ISR and regional universities.

Come see what's going on at ISR!

Preliminary list of participants:

The STAIRS Lab is broadly engaged in research focusing on combining testing, static analysis and machine learning approaches to improve software quality under real-world conditions.

• "Accessibility Issues in Android Apps: State of Affairs, Sentiments, and Ways Forward" (poster)
  Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek
• "Improving the quality of bug reports through a conversational AI-based interface" (poster)
  Elahe Paikari, Iftekhar Ahmed, and André van der Hoek

The SORA Lab conducts research in software engineering with a focus on mobile security, testing, and analysis; software architecture; and software maintenance and re-engineering.

• “Detection and Repair of Architectural Inconsistencies in Java” (poster)
  Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
• "Too Quiet in the Library: A Study of Native Third-Party Libraries in Android" (poster)
  Sumaya Almanee, Mathias Payer, and Joshua Garcia

Spider Lab Prof. James A. Jones

The Spider Lab creates techniques for offering automatic recommendations for common software-maintenance tasks. Visit us to see posters and demonstrations.

• "Towards a Library for Deterministic Failure Testing of Distributed Systems" (poster)
  Armin Balalaie and James A. Jones
• "Phase Detection to Assist Software Comprehension" (poster)
  Kaj Dreef, Yang Feng, and James A. Jones
• "Unveiling Elite Developers’ Activities in Open Source Projects" (poster)
  Zhendong Wang, Yang Feng, Yi Wang, James Jones, and David Redmiles

The Mondego Group  Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes Theme: Software Systems in the Large

The Mondego group conducts research in large systems and large data.

• "Towards Automating Precision Studies of Clone Detectors" (poster)
  Vaibhav Saini, Farima Farmahinifarahani, Yadong Lu, Di Yang, Pedro Martins, Hitesh Sajnani, Pierre Baldi, and Cristina Lopes
• "GoT: Git, but for Objects" (demo)
  Rohan Achar and Cristina Lopes
• "TLDR: A Precise and Efficient Regression Test Selection Tool" (poster)
  Maruf Zaber and Cristina Lopes

Software Engineering and Analysis Lab (SEAL) Prof. Sam Malek

The Software Engineering and Analysis Lab (SEAL) is broadly engaged in research to automate the software engineering activities, thereby improving the developer productivity as well as the quality of the resulting software.

• “Detection and Repair of Architectural Inconsistencies in Java” (poster)
  Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
• "Test Transfer Across Mobile Apps Through Semantic Mapping" (poster)
  Jun-Wei Lin, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Sam Malek
• "Automated Construction of Energy Test Oracle Through Deep Learning" (poster)
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Forough Mehralian, and Sam Malek
• "Accessibility Issues in Android Apps: State of Affairs, Sentiments, and Ways Forward" (poster)
  Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek

Prof. Gloria Mark's research group focuses on how technology use affects people.

• “ Factors influencing user uptake of digital mental health interventions” (poster)
  Judith Borghouts, Elizabeth Eikey, Cinthia De Leon, and Gloria Mark

The Collaboration Research in Action, Design, and Learning Laboratory (CRADL) employs an interdisciplinary approach to research phenomena in human collaborative activity. We primarily study collaborative work, and, particularly, software engineering.

• "Posing a research question: Does improvisational theatre improve collaboration on software engineering teams?" (poster)
  Alissa Powers
• "Unveiling Elite Developers’ Activities in Open Source Projects" (poster)
  Zhendong Wang, Yang Feng, Yi Wang, James Jones, and David Redmiles
• "The challenges and methods in classifying gender of GitHub users" (poster)
  Yan Yue and David Redmiles

Software Design and Collaboration Laboratory Prof. André van der Hoek

The Software Design and Collaboration Laboratory focuses on understanding and advancing the roles of design, collaboration, and education in software development.

• "Improving the quality of bug reports through a conversational AI-based interface" (poster)
  Elahe Paikari, Iftekhar Ahmed, and André van der Hoek

Prof. Chao Wang's research group focuses on formal verification, program repair, side channel, concurrency, and AI safety.

• “Mitigating Power Side Channels during Compilation” (poster)
  Jingbo Wang, Chungha Sung, and Chao Wang
• "Mitigating Compression Side Channels via Static Analysis and Transformation" (poster)
  Brandon Paulsen, Chungha Sung, Chao Wang