News Briefs

  • Prof. Michael Franz was received by the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the official Presidential Residence, Bellevue Palace, in Berlin, Germany in June, in honor of Franz's receipt of the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. The day before, Franz attended a speech, by invitation, given by the Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel, also in Berlin.

         October 2019

  • Prof. Michael Franz’s 2009 paper “Optimization of Dynamic Languages Using Hierarchical Layering of Virtual Machines” was selected to receive the Most Notable Paper of DLS 2009 at the October 2019 edition of the Dynamic Languages Symposium, the main academic conference on dynamic programming language design and implementation. The paper is co-authored by Alexander Yermolovich, Christian Wimmer, and Franz. The jury wrote, “we believe the last 10 years have shown this paper to be one of the early notable works on Meta VMs and Tracing.”

         October 2019

  • Prof. Cristina Lopes gave a keynote talk titled “Virtual Conferences” at the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2019), which was held in New Orleans, LA in October.

         October 2019

  • Prof. Yang Wang is now an Associate Professor of information science, and by courtesy, computer science, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he co-directs the Social Computing Systems (SALT) Lab. 

         August 2019

  • Prof. Emerita Bonnie Nardi has been bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Society for Socially Embedded Technology (EUSSET) for her body of research on activity theory, interaction design, games, social media, and society and technology. She received the prestigious award at the 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in Salzburg, Austria in June.

         July 2019

  • Prof. André van der Hoek is hosting eight undergraduate Korean students this summer as part of the International Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (I-SURF) program. Four students will work with van der Hoek’s Ph.D. student Elahe Paikari and four will work with his Ph.D. student Adriana Meza Soria.

         July 2019

  • Prof. David Redmiles gave the opening lecture titled “A Range of Methods in CSCW and HCI: examples from research in software engineering” at the First International Summer School in Research Methods for HCI/CSCW, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March.

         July 2019

  • Prof. Joshua Garcia was a panelist at the first Student Mentoring Workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), held in May in Montreal, Canada. The panel was titled “What I wish I knew when I started my Ph.D. in SE.”

         July 2019

  • The paper titled “Towards Automating Precision Studies of Clone Detectors,” which was presented in the Technical Track at ICSE 2019 in May, received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award. The paper is authored by alumnus Dr. Vaibhav Saini (Microsoft), Ph.D. students Farima Farmahinifarahani, Yadong Lu, and Di Yang, Pedro Martins (Microsoft, Lisbon), alumnus Dr. Hitesh Sajnani (Microsoft), Prof. Pierre Baldi, and Prof. Cristina Lopes.

         July 2019

  • ISR Director Prof. Sam Malek and Prof. Joshua Garcia gave a talk at Google in Sunnyvale in March titled “Testing and Analysis Techniques for Improving the Quality of Android Apps.”

         July 2019

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