ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards

• Spatio-Temporal Context Reduction: A Pointer-Analysis- Based Static Approach for Detecting Use-After- Free Vulnerabilities
  • Hua Yan, Yulei Sui, Shiping Chen, and Jingling Xue
• Identifying Design Problems in the Source Code: A Grounded Theory
  • Leonardo De Silva Sousa, Anderson Oliviera, Willian Oizumi, Simone Barbosa, Alessandro Garcia, Jaejoon Lee, Marcos Kalinowski, Rafael de Mello, Roberto Oliveira, Neto Baldoino and Rodrigo Paes
• Static Automated Program Repair for Heap Properties
  • Rijnard van Tonder and Claire Le Goues
• Automated Localization for Unreproducible Builds
  • Zhilei Ren and He Jiang, Jifeng Xuan, and Zijiang Yang
• Large-Scale Analysis of Framework-Specific Exceptions in Android Apps
  • Lingling Fan, Ting Su, Sen Chen, Guozhu Meng, Yang Liu, Lihua Xu, Geguang Pu and Zhendong Su
• Generalized Data Structure Synthesis
  • Calvin Loncaric, Michael D. Ernst and Emina Torlak
• Traceability in the Wild: Automatically Augmenting Incomplete Trace links
  • Michael Rath, Jacob Rendall, Jin Guo, Jane Cleland-Huang, and Patrick Mäder
• Towards Optimal Concolic Testing
  • Xinyu Wang, Jun Sun, Zhenbang Chen, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, and Yun Lin

Distinguished Reviewers

• Kelly Lyons, University of Toronto, Canada
• Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA
• Emelie Engstrom, Lund Univ., Sweden
• Annibale Pannichella, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Daniel Varro, McGill Univ., Canada
• Dalal Aranjeh, Imperial College London, UK
• Shiva Nejati, SnT Centre/Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Shin Yoo, KAIST, South Korea
• Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
• Federica Sarro, University College, London UK

Being Rapid Response Reliable Reviewer (RRRR)

• Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen’s University, Canada
• Yue Jia, Facebook
• Arie Van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Tracy Hall, Brunel University, London, UK
• Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
• Darko Marinov, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
• Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Yuriy Brun, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Andrew Ko, University of Washington, USA
• Premkumar Devanbu, University of California, Davis, USA

New Ideas and Emerging Results - Distinguished Paper Awards

• Combining Spreadsheet Smells for Improved Fault Prediction
  • Patrick Koch, Konstantin Schekotihin, Dietmar Jannach, Birgit Hofer, Franz Wotawa, and Thomas Schmitz
• Hierarchical Learning of Cross-Language Mappings through Distributed Vector Representations for Code
  • Nghi Bui and Lingxiao Jiang

ICSE-10 Most Influential Paper Award (Paper appeared at ICSE 2018)

• Debugging Reinvented: Asking and Answering Why and Why Not Questions About Program Behavior
  • Andy J Ko and Brad A Myers

IEEE Software Best Software Engineering in Practice Paper Award

• Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository - A case study at Google
  • Ciera Jaspan, Matthew Jorde, Andrea Knight, Caitlin Sadowski, Edward K. Smith, Collin Winter, Emerson Murphy-Hill

Software Engineering in Society Paper Award

• The Role of Foundations in Open Source Projects
  • Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo and Jordi Cabot

Software Engineering Education and Training Paper Award

• Barriers to Gender Diversity in Software Development Education: Actionable Insights from a Danish Case Study
  • Valeria Borsotti

ACM Student Research Competition Winners:

Graduate Category

• To be decided during the conference

Student Contest on Software Engineering

To be decided during the conference

Doctoral Symposium

-To be decided during the conference

IEEE CS TCSE Awards

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Service Award:

• Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Education Award:

• Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award:

• Barbara G. Ryder, Virgina

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award:

• Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre

Harlan D. Mills Award:

• Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia

ACM SIGSOFT Awards

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award:

• David Rosenblum, National University of Singapore

ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award:

• Shriram Krishnamurthy, Brown University, USA

ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award:

• Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany

ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award:

• DECKARD: Scalable and Accurate Tree-Based Detection of Code Clones, Lingxiao Jiang, Ghassan Misherghi, Zhendong Su, and Stephane Glondu, In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 07)

ACM SIGSOFT Doctoral Dissertation Award:

• Automatic Patch Generation via Learning from Successful Human Patches, Fan Long, MIT, USA - Martin Rinard, advisor

ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award:

• Gabriele Bavota, USI, Switzerland

Active SIGSOFT ACM Fellows - 2017

• Margaret Burnett
• Gail C. Murphy

Active SIGSOFT ACM Distinguished Members - 2017:

• James H. Cross II
• Mauro Pezz
• Myra B. Cohen
• Prof Willem C. Visser
• Thomas MJ Zimmermann
• Hridesh Rajan

Active SIGSOFT ACM Senior Members - 2017

• Alex Groce
• Mickey W.Mantle
• Lin Zhpng