Stacey Koornneef Awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Stacey Koornneef on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2026-27! Stacey is a Computer Science PhD student in the SEER Lab researching creativity and computational thinking. Her thesis research is co-supervised by Prof. Jeremy Bradbury and Prof. Miriam Sturdee (University of St. Andrews).

SEER Lab Director Speaks at Toronto Metropolitan University

Yesterday Prof. Jeremy Bradbury along with Mosarrat Rumman and Bridget Green visited with Prof. Manar Alalfi and members of the Creative Research in Security and Software Engineering Technology (CRESSET) Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University to discuss a new research collaboration in software and security.

During the visit Prof. Bradbury also delivered a Computer Science Seminar on “Democratizing AI in Software Development.”

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. 🇨🇦

Honours Students Present Their Theses

Congratulations to SEER Lab students Adam Kolodziejczak, Alyesha Singh, Bisha Fatima, Disha Padia, Ryan Ahlborn, Ryan Warrener and Saahir Dhani who all successfully presented their Computer Science BSc (Hons.) theses yesterday!


A further congratulations to Alyesha on winning the Computer Science Undergraduate Thesis Award (Software & Applied AI track) 🏆 and to Adam for being nominated for the Computer Science Undergraduate Thesis Award!

  • Adam Kolodziejczak, “The Relationship Between Facial Emotion and Programming.” (supervisors: Profs. Jeremy Bradbury & Steven Livingstone) *𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥
  • Alyesha Singh, “Accessa: A Human-Centred, AI-Assisted System for Visual Web Accessibility Evaluation.” (supervisors: Profs. Michael Miljanovic & Ali Neshati) *𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 🏆
  • Bisha Fatima, “Analysing Al Assistant Usage in Undergraduate Computer Science Programming Tasks.” (supervisors: Profs. Jeremy Bradbury & Mariana Akemi Shimabukuro)
  • Disha Padia, “LLM-Based Detection Cyber Attacks Using Raw vs Decoded CAN Messages.” (supervisors: Profs. Jeremy Bradbury & Randy Fortier)
  • Ryan Ahlborn, “LLM-based Hints in Serious Games.” (supervisors: Profs. Cristiano Politowski & Michael Miljanovic)
  • Ryan Warrener, “FLIC: Feedback for Live Interactive Coding.” (supervisors: Profs. Michael Miljanovic & Eric Rapos)
  • Saahir Dhani, “Game Testing with AI Agents.” (supervisors: Profs. Cristiano Politowski & Jeremy Bradbury)

SEER Lab Director Speaks at the University of St. Andrews

Prof. Jeremy Bradbury gave a University of St Andrews School of Computer Science Seminar Series this morning on “Democratizing AI in Software Development: From Few-Shot Testing to Trustworthy Benchmarks and Accessible AI Tools.” His talk focused on three key challenges to broader AI adoption in software development and how recent SEER Lab work is addressing them:

🔹 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
💡 Applying few-shot learning to detect flaky tests with minimal training

🔹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀
💡 Evaluating data leakage in LLM program-generation benchmarks and designing more reliable alternatives

🔹 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
💡 Using block-based programming to make AI tools more accessible

Together, these efforts aim to make AI-driven software development more accessible, trustworthy, and usable for a broader range of developers and organizations.

Slides: [PDF]

Prof. Bradbury’s visit to the University of St Andrews was hosted by his research collaborator, Prof, Miriam Sturdee, and their co-supervised PhD student Stacey Koornneef. During his visit they collaborated on their joint research at the intersection of creativity and computational thinking education. This research is interdisciplinary in nature and includes elements of education, creativity, human-computer interaction and software development.

SEER Lab Students Present at 2026 MAIRI Symposium

Congratulations to Mosarrat Rumman, Bridget Green and Daniel Hinbest on presenting posters at today’s Mindful AI Research Institute (MAIRI) Symposium 2026.

  • Mosarrat Rumman: “A Contrastive Learning Approach to Bug Severity Classification with Large Language Model Embeddings” (collaborators: Emon Roy, Anushka Zaman, supervisor: Prof. Jeremy Bradbury)
  • Bridget Green: “LLBlocks: A Blocked-Based Programming Language for LLM Education” (supervisor:Prof. Jeremy Bradbury)
  • Daniel Hinbest: “Understanding How AI Code Assistants Impact Writing Software Tests” (co-supervisors: Prof Jeremy Bradbury, Prof. Michael Miljanovic)

SEER Lab at the Ontario Tech AI Forum

Prof. Jeremy Bradbury attended today’s OntarioTech AI Forum. The goal of the forum was to bring “…the foremost leaders of AI, Energy and Education together to explore how we can integrate this technology with purpose—strengthening communities, increasing productivity and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while empowering people and applying Canada’s values to shape a future where technology serves the common good.”


This goal aligns with two of the research directions we are studying in the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab (SEER Lab):

  1. Engaging with industry to better support software development using AI. This includes low resource methods that help small to medium sized enterprises access AI with limited training data.
  2. Leveraging the benefits of personalized AI-supported education to enable developers produce quality software.