News Briefs

  • “A Chain of Giving Back” Read about ICS Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Rosalva Gallardo Valencia (Ph.D. 2012, advisor: Susan Sim) and how the graduate award she established gives back to students such Adriana Meza Soria (A. van der Hoek, advisor) in this ICS Alumni and Student profile. 

    Join In! You can donate to the Rosalva Gallardo Valencia Graduate Award here.

         April 2020

  • Prof. André van der Hoek, his Ph.D. student Adriana Meza Soria, and long-time collaborator and UCI Visiting Distinguished Professor Marian Petre are studying distributed software design meetings at NextGen Healthcare.  Supported by alumnus Dr. Gerald Bortis (Ph.D. 2016, advisor A. van der Hoek), VP of Software Development at NextGen, they are particularly studying what factors make distributed teams effective, and how being distributed affects the design process and outcomes.

         April 2020

  • Prof. Cristina Lopes is co-chair of the ACM Presidential Task Force on Virtual Conferences, which was established in March in response to a proposal to ACM by Lopes and fellow co-chairs Benjamin Pierce of the University of Pennsylvania and Jeanna Matthews of Clarkson University. Collaborating with a group of technology experts, including UCI’s Informatics Professors Emeriti Gary Olson and Judy Olson, the task force produced a useful set of guidelines: “Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices.” Read more here.

         April 2020

  • Prof. Iftekhar Ahmed will present the paper titled “Planning for Untangling: Predicting the Difficulty of Merge Conflicts” in the Technical Papers track at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), to be held virtually from June 27 to July 19. The paper is authored by Ph.D. student Caius Brindescu of Oregon State University (first author), Ahmed, Ph.D. student Rafael Leano of Oregon State University, and Prof. Anita Sarma of Oregon State University.

         April 2020

  • Prof. Joshua Garcia will present his paper titled “A Comprehensive Study of Autonomous Vehicle Bugs” in the Technical Papers track at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), to be held in Seoul, South Korea in October. The paper is co-authored by alumnus Prof. Yang Feng of Nanjing University, undergraduate student Junjie Shen, Ph.D. students Sumaya Almanee and Yuan Xia, and Prof. Qi Alfred Chen.

         April 2020

  • Prof. Joshua Garcia gave a talk on March 24 at NortonLifeLock in Culver City, CA, a major software security company. The talk was titled “Android Malware Detection: From Obfuscation Susceptibility to Obfuscation Resilience."

         March 2020

  • Read about Alumnus Greg Bolcer in this ICS Alumni Spotlight: Greg Bolcer Shares Insights from his Decades of Tech Experience.  Bolcer talks about his journey from a lifeguard tower to the executive suite, reminiscing about the first AI program he ever built and sharing his thoughts on whether AI is going to take over the world.

         March 2020

  • Software alums Gregory Alan Bolcer and Rosalva Gallardo Valencia have been inducted into the 2020 ICS Alumni Hall of Fame. Congratulations to Greg and Rosalva! Photos are available here.

         March 2020

  • Read about ISR Assistant Director Debra Brodbeck in this ICS Staff Spotlight: Debra Brodbeck’s Unique Background a Perfect Fit for Institute for Software Research. Brodbeck talks about her journey to UCI and her 30+ years as part of the software group, including her work for the Arcadia project, IRUS, and ISR.

    March 2020

  • Professor Emeritx Bonnie Nardi has received the ACM SIGCHI 2020 Social Impact Award. She was one of two people to be bestowed the award this year. This award honors leaders in the field of human-computer interaction and recognizes individuals who promote the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs. Nardi’s research into the political economy and sustainability has challenged the status quo, providing a new perspective on the role of computing in understanding and dealing with real-world limits.

         February 2020

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