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New Transformative Adversaries Project Kicks Off

Our new collaborative project — “Transformative Adversaries: Leveraging Generative Pretrained Transformers for the Development of Next-Generation Metamorphic Malware Engines” has official kicked off with a meeting of Prof. Jeremy Bradbury, Prof. Pooria Madani (PI) and Prof. Khalil El-Khatib. This research is funded by the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC)’s Cyber Security Innovation Network (CSIN) program atContinue reading “New Transformative Adversaries Project Kicks Off”

SEER Lab PhD Student Showcases Research and Art

Stacey Koornneef, a PhD student in the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab, recently showcased her research and her artistic abilities at the 2025 SGPS Poster Showcase and Art Exhibit. At the SGPS Poster Exhibit Stacey presented a poster on her recent research on “CAB: Cost-Accessible Box for Immersive Reality.” At the SGPS Art ExhibitContinue reading “SEER Lab PhD Student Showcases Research and Art”

SEER Lab at CASCON 2025!

Prof. Jeremy Bradbury, Bisha Fatima, Bridget Green and Daniel Hinbest are all in Toronto, ON this week attending the 35th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON 2025). Prof. Bradbury also served as the CASCON 2025 technical program co-chair with Prof. Eleni Stroulia. This year a record 170 submissions were reviewedContinue reading “SEER Lab at CASCON 2025!”

SEER Lab MSc Student Wins Best Poster Award

SEER Lab’s Bridget Green won a Best Poster Award at the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2025 Fall Meeting! Bridget’s poster was titled “LLBlocks: A Blocked-Based Programming Language for LLM Education” and was co-authored with her supervisor Dr. Jeremy Bradbury. 

SEER Lab at CSER 2025 Fall Meeting!

SEER Lab members Dr. Jeremy Bradbury. Bisha Fatima, Bridget Green and Daniel Hinbest attended the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2025 Fall Meeting 🇨🇦 yesterday. Both Bridget and Daniel presented posters on their MSc thesis research and Bridget won a Best Poster Award for her poster titled “LLBlocks: A Block-Based Programming Language for LLMContinue reading “SEER Lab at CSER 2025 Fall Meeting!”

Riddhi More Successfully Defends MSc Thesis

Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Riddhi More who successfully defended her MSc thesis today. Riddhi’s thesis is titled “Addressing Data Challenges in LLM-Enhanced Software Engineering” and was supervised by Dr. Jeremy Bradbury.

Bug Severity Classification Research Published at COMPSAC-SETA 2025

Today at the IEEE COMPSAC Symposium on Software Engineering Technologies & Applications (COMPSAC-SETA 2025) Mosarrat Rumman presented “A Contrastive Learning Approach to Bug Severity Classification with Large Language Model Embeddings” (co-authors Anushka Zaman, Emon Roy, Jeremy Bradbury). This research shows that contrastive fine-tuning for LLMs can improve semantic separation and boost generalization on imbalanced, diverseContinue reading “Bug Severity Classification Research Published at COMPSAC-SETA 2025”

SEER Lab at COMPSAC 2025!

This week SEER Lab’s Prof. Jeremy Bradbury along with MSc students Mosarrat Rumman and Anushka Zaman are attending the 49th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2025). At the conference Mosarrat will be presenting their paper, “A Contrastive Learning Approach to Bug Severity Classification with Large Language Model Embeddings,” at the IEEEContinue reading “SEER Lab at COMPSAC 2025!”

SEER Lab Director Gives Keynote on Serious Games and AI

Last Friday, SEER Lab Director Jeremy Bradbury was the keynote speaker at the Foundations of Applied Software Engineering for Games Workshop (FaSE4Games’25) co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’2025). His talk was titled “Personalizing Software Engineering Serious Games with AI” and covered development challenges including: