The Software Engineering & Education Research Lab recently updated its logo to better reflect the research done by lab members. If you’re curious about how the new logo reflects the lab’s research focus and objectives here is a short visual guide.
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New SEER Lab PhD Student
We are happy to welcome Computer Science PhD student Mosarrat Rumman to the lab! Mosarrat will be co-supervised by Prof. Jeremy Bradbury and Prof. Peter Lewis (Trustworthy AI Lab). Her doctoral research will be at the intersection of AI, Software Engineering and Trust.
Prof. Jeremy Bradbury Elected Vice President of CS-Can | Info-Can
SEER Lab Director, Prof. Jeremy Bradbury, has been elected by the Board of Directors as the Vice President of CS-CAN | INFO-CAN for 2026. Prof. Bradbury will be supporting Interim President Bettina Kemme and continuing to represent and advocate for Canada’s computing research community. 🇨🇦
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 BSc (Hons.) Students Successfully Present Theses
Congratulations to Ashar Izhar, Daniel Hinbest, Dev Thaker, and Mirisan Ravindran who all successfully presented their Computer Science honours theses last Thursday! 🎓 A further congratulations to Ashar who’s thesis was nominated for the Ontario Tech Computer Science Outstanding Thesis Award.
SEER Lab at CAN-CWIC 2024!
SEER Lab members Bridget Green, Riddhi More, Rosie Khurmi, Stacey Koornneef and Syeda Bisha Fatima are attending the Canadian Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWIC 2024) this weekend! Thank you to OntarioTech Computer Science and the Faculty of Science for sponsoring them.
SEER Lab PhD Student Awarded Digital Research Alliance of Canada DRI-EDIA Grant
PhD student Stacey Koornneef has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada as part of their equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) pilot program.
Lab Leader Promoted to Professor
Prof. Jeremy Bradbury, leader of the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab, has been promoted to Professor at Ontario Tech University effective July 1, 2024. Prof. Bradbury joined Ontario Tech in July 2007 after completing his PhD in Computing at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada.
Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence
This week I gave a research seminar at Dalhousie University and at Mount Allison University on “Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence (AI).” The intersection of AI and Software Engineering is an active research area and has lead to a number of effective and novel applications of machine learning, metaheuristic algorithms and deep learning. ManyContinue reading “Automating Software Development Using Artificial Intelligence”