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.
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. 🇨🇦
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).
Congratulations to SEER Lab members Japnit Ahuja , Amanda Showler, Moksh Bhavsar, Stacey Koornneef, Noshen Atashe and Gerhard Yu who all convocated yesterday from Ontario Tech University! 🎓
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).
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.
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.
The “Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts: Theories, Methods, Tools, and Experiences” book is now out! If you have the opportunity to read it there is a chapter co-authored by SEER Lab’s Michael Miljanovic and Jeremy Bradbury on “Engineering Adaptive Serious Games Using Machine Learning.”
We’re happy to welcome two new Mitacs Globalink research interns to the lab — Sylvain Rocchia from Grenoble INP and Alex Baxter from the University of Edinburgh. Sylvain and Alex will be spending their internship as members of the SEER Lab working on the development of an educational game for learning software testing.
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