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.

Stacey Koornneef - DRI EDIA Champion
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Successful Partnership with Ontario Tech University Summer Camps

A big thank you to the Ontario Tech University Summer Camps for partnering with the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab (SEER Lab) and supporting our research study on the benefits of tangible and hybrid (tangible + digital) educational games in learning computational thinking with K-5 students.

Summer Camps at Ontario Tech
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VISSOFT 2024 Paper – “PIE: A Tool for Visualizing the Life Cycle of Design Patterns in Open Source Software Projects”

In October we’ll be presenting “PIE: A Tool for Visualizing the Life Cycle of Design Patterns in Open Source Software Projects” at the 12th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2024). The paper is co-authored by Kashif J. Hussain, Christopher Collins and Jeremy Bradbury.

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Lab Members Attend the 8th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit

SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury and Riddhi More were downtown Toronto this week attending the 8th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit. The event included many attendees from machine learning start ups as well as established companies doing AI. As researchers, attending industry-focused events like TMLS is always exciting because there is an opportunity to learn about the problems companies are facing and how our research might be part of the solution.

Ontario Tech participants at TMLS 2024
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Successful CSER 2024 Spring Meeting

SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury, Stacey Koornneef and Riddhi More were in Kingston, ON at Queen’s University on June 10th & 11th for the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2024 Spring Meeting. In total 140 participants attending the CSER 2024 Spring Meeting from universities and industry across Canada. 🇨🇦

Riddhi More presenting at the CSER 2024 Spring Meeting
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Japnit Ahuja wins 2024 Governor General’s Silver Medal

Congratulations to SEER Lab member Japnit Ahuja who graduated yesterday with a BSc (Honours) in Computer Science with highest distinction! Japnit was awarded the Faculty of Science Medal (highest cumulative GPA in the faculty) and the 2024 Governor General’s Silver Medal (highest cumulative GPA across all Ontario Tech University undergraduate programs).

Jeremy Bradbury, Japnit Ahuja, Michael Miljanovic at Ontario Tech Convocation 2024

ICST 2024 Panel – “The Role of AI in Software Testing”

SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury participated as a panelist in this afternoon’s Fishbowl Panel on “The Role of AI in Software Testing” at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2024). The panel was chair by Gregory Gay (University of Gothenburg) and include panelists Joana Coutinho/Alexandre Lemos (OutSystems, Portugal), Mehrdad Saadatmand (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Jeremy Bradbury (Ontario Tech) Renzo Degiovanni (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology).

ICST 2024 Panel