Combined Call for Papers & Workshop Proposals: ICSA 2026
04-Jul-2025
We are excited to announce several opportunities for contributing to the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2026), the premier conference for software architecture. The conference will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 22-26, 2026. We are now accepting submissions for the following tracks: Call for Papers – Research Track We invite researchers to submit papers for the Research Track at ICSA 2026. This year’s theme is Architecting in Continuous Softwa...
PhD-TA Position on Evaluation of Threat Assessment Using AI at TU Eindhoven
13-Jun-2025
We are seeking a highly motivated and curious PhD candidate with a background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science or related field to join our group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The topic is focused on studying how to automate threat assessment with AI and how to empirically evaluate it as a complex system with social aspects. Job title: PhD-TA Salary: €2,901 – €3,707 per month Faculty/Department: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Camp...
Invitation to Workshop on Industry Perspectives on Research Software Quality
29-May-2025
The EVERSE consortium would like to invite you to participate in a focused workshop exploring the intersection of research software quality and industry practices. This 90-minute virtual session will take place on 12 June from 10:30 - 12:00 UK / 11:30 - 13:00 CET. Why Your Perspective Matters As someone with industry experience, your insights are important as we develop frameworks and best practices for research software quality. This can range from the quality of the code itself, to the quali...
New people - Vincenzo Stoico started in VU Amsterdam as assistant professor
29-May-2025
Hello! I’m Vincenzo Stoico, an Assistant Professor in the Software and Sustainability (S2) group at VU Amsterdam. My research focuses on making software systems more energy-efficient and high-performing, especially in resource-intensive domains like AI and scientific computing. I use empirical methods to develop strategies to reduce the environmental impact of software, both by improving performance and by creating tools to measure and mitigate energy usage. Before joining VU Amsterdam as facult...
VERSEN PhD award winners 2024
29-May-2025
At ICT.OPEN 2025, on 16 April, the winners of the VERSEN PhD awards 2024 were announced. This year, the committee received very strong and impressive theses, making it a very enjoyable experience to read about the great research being done in the Dutch SE community, but also making it very hard to select the winners. Nevertheless, in the end, the following winners were identified: FIRST PLACE: Guarantees by Construction, by Jules Jacobs (Radboud University) SECOND PLACE: Correctly Communi...
VERSEN MSc awards 2024
29-May-2025
The VERSEN MSc awards are annually awarded to graduates who wrote an excellent MSc thesis in the preceding year. The theses are judged on the following factors: Novelty to and impact in the field promoted by VERSEN, timeliness, quality of the thesis report and associated artifacts, and methodological approach and execution. At the SEN Symposium on 23 May, the winners of the VERSEN MSc awards 2024 (sponsored by ASML) were announced. These are: (Ex aequo) Orpheas van Rooij - A Substructural T...
Survey on the Impostor Phenomenon affecting software engineering academics
29-May-2025
A team of researchers from Brazil, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands (Paloma Guenes, Bianca Trinkenreich, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Alexander Serebrenik, Margaret-Anne Storey and Marcos Kalinowski) is inviting academics in software engineering to participate in a research survey assessing the Impostor Phenomenon. At the end of the survey, you will receive a personalized score based on a validated scale, indicating whether the Impostor Phenomenon may be affecting you. The survey takes approximat...
Serebrenik wins the Author Service Award for contributions to Empirical Software Engineering
29-May-2025
Alexander Serebrenik won the Author Service award. From the information letter: “At Springer Nature, we are thrilled to celebrate our exceptional editors like you, whose dedication to your journals and research communities is truly inspiring. Your tireless efforts in developing your journal’s community, supporting your authors and advocating for your communities are invaluable in advancing discovery. We are proud to honour this remarkable work through the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction ...
Petra Heck appointed Associate Professor AI & Software Engineering at Fontys UAS
29-May-2025
Since February 2025, Dr. Ir. Petra Heck has been appointed Associate Professor (Ass. Lector) “AI & Software Engineering” at Fontys UAS in Eindhoven. Her practice-oriented research covers both AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE) and Software Engineering for AI (SE4AI). Due to the advent of LLMs and LLM-based code generation tools, her most recent interest is trustworthy LLM engineering and LLM-augmented Software Engineering. Fontys UAS constantly innovate their Software Engineering educat...
Ayushi Rastogi receives the MSR Rich Holt Early Career Achievement Award 2025
29-May-2025
Dr. Ayushi Rastogi, an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the University of Groningen, received the MSR Rich Holt Early Career Achievement Award 2025 at the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories in Ottawa, Canada. This award recognizes early-career researchers who have made outstanding contributions to mining software repositories. The award committee wrote that Rastogi’s work addresses “prominent research challenges impacting software companies, OSS communit...