Eloise Zhang awarded with the 2nd KHMW Young Talent Thesis Prize 2024
04-Dec-2024
Eloise Zhang, graduated in the Master Computer Science and supervised by Justus Bogner and Patricia Lago (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), is the winner of the 2nd prize of the KHMW Young Talent graduation prizes for computer science and information science 2024. Eloise did her thesis on the footprint of architecture tactics for AI-based software, in the context of the Sustainable IT Lab of VU-ABN Amro (https://digitalsustainabilitycenter.nl/pages/vu-abn-lab). The prize is awarded during a festiv...
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering: Best Practices and Insights
04-Dec-2024
Together with several colleagues Alexander Serebrenik has co-edited a book about equity, diversity and inclusion in software engineering. This is the very first book to focus on diversity and inclusion in software development teams. It is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The book comprises 29 chapters reviewing scientific evidence from studies of EDI barriers, impacts, and a research agenda for further work, as well as showing what can be done to increase diversi...
Alice & Eve - a runner-up for the Minerva Informatics Equality Award of Informatics Europe
04-Dec-2024
For the 9th consecutive year, Informatics Europe (IE) presents the Minerva Informatics Equality Award, recognizing successful initiatives that support women in Informatics research and education at all stages. “Alice & Eve: a celebration of women in computing” initiative, a joint effort among several Dutch universities since 2020, has been recognized as one of the runners-up. The steering committee of Alice and Eve, comprising Marieke Huisman, Sophie Lathouwers, Alma Schaafstal and Marielle...
Klervie Toczé: new postdoc researcher at VU Amsterdam
04-Dec-2024
Hello! My name is Klervie Toczé. I have recently joined the Software and Sustainability group at VU Amsterdam as a postdoc researcher. I will work on the FEED4FOOD EU project, which deals with sustainable urban agriculture, together with Professor Patricia Lago and Associate Professor Lia van Wesenbeeck from the School of Business and Economics. The aim is to create a dashboard for following different KPIs based on data collected in four Living Labs. I recently completed my PhD at Linköping Uni...
June Sallou and Siamak Farshidi are new members of the Information Technology group at Wageningen University
04-Dec-2024
As of October 15th, two new colleagues have joined the Information Technology group at Wageningen University & Research as Assistant Professors. June Sallou and Siamak Farshidi bring valuable expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and Generative AI, strengthening our research and teaching efforts in these dynamic fields. We are also pleased to announce the introduction of two new courses: Generative AI and Natural Language Processing. These additions build on our pionee...
New ITEA Grant for the University of Groningen
04-Dec-2024
Prof. Paris Avgeriou of the Software Engineering and Architecture group (SEARCH) of the University of Groningen has acquired a new grant within the ITEA program, entitled Managing Sustainability Tradeoffs (MAST). This project will deal with the complex trade-offs between two aspects of sustainability: technical sustainability (and specifically technical debt) and environmental sustainability. The group will work with its long-standing partner, Canon Production Printing, alongside 2 Dutch SMEs ...
Software Engineering Track at ICT.Open 2025
04-Dec-2024
SIG VERSEN is organising the Software Engineering Track at ICT.Open 2025, to take place on 15-16 April 2025 at the Beatrix Theater Jaarbeurs Utrecht. This track highlights the importance of interdisciplinary discussions to push the boundaries of how software impacts industries and communities worldwide. Topics of interest centre around the development of reliable, sustainable and ethical software, among others. This year we will host a keynote presentation bridging the history and future of sof...
VERSEN awards at ICSOB 2024
04-Dec-2024
On on November 18-20 the 15th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2024) was held in the beautiful Utrecht. The conference was sponsored by VERSEN, NWO, AFAS Software, and ISPMA. The program of the conference was very interesting and attracted 98 submissions, at least 50 presentations, and participants from all over the world. VERSEN awards have also been given to the following winners: VERSEN Best Reviewer Award: Fernando Castor Filho (special mention for Prof. dr. J...
Four distinguished reviewer awards for Dutch SE resarchers at ICSME 2024
04-Dec-2024
Great news! Four Dutch software engineering researchers have won distinguished reviewer awards at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)! Our congratulations to: Paris Avgeriou Fernanda Madeiral Alexander Serebrenik Andy Zaidman ...
Cum Laude PhD for Nathan Cassee
04-Dec-2024
On October 31, 2024 Nathan Cassee has successfully defended his PhD thesis cum laude. At Eindhoven University of Technology cum laude is very rare - only 5% best PhD students get this predicate and the selection goes through multiple rounds of expert evaluation. The goal of the thesis was to understand how expressions of emotions and opinions affect software engineering. This goal has been achieved by (a) identifying gaps in the state-of-the-art research (Chapter 2), (b) sharpening sentiment an...