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).
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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 addressingContinue reading “SEER Lab Director Speaks at the University of St. Andrews”
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 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:
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 Presentation at the 2025 Digital Innovation Education Conference
Last Friday, Stacey Koornneef presented at the 2025 Digital Innovation in Education Conference on “Lessons Learned: How to Design & Evaluate Cost-Accessible Coding Games for Children.”
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.
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. 🇨🇦
Stacey Koornneef Successfully Defends MSc Thesis
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Stacey Koornneef who successfully defended and submitted her MSc thesis today. Stacey’s thesis is titled “Run, Llama, Run: An Educational Coding Game for Assessing Tangible and Hybrid Interfaces” and was co-supervised by Jeremy Bradbury and Michael Miljanovic.
Japnit Ahuja Wins Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award for Women in ICT
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Japnit Ahuja for winning the 2023 Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award For Women In ICT, a WomenTech Network global award. The award is in recognition of her efforts in founding the Go Girl Organisation which provides free coding workshops to underprivileged girls.