Software Research Lab - USASK

🌟 Celebrating the Women of SRLab and iSE Lab 🌟

Today, we celebrate the remarkable women researchers and scholars of SRLab and iSE Lab, whose dedication, creativity, and leadership continue to advance impactful research in software engineering, AI-assisted development, and empirical studies of developer practices.

From advancing empirical studies to exploring the human-centered aspects of software engineering, the women of both labs are making meaningful contributions that strengthen our research community and the broader field.

We especially recognize the leadership of Dr. Banani Roy, Director of iSE Lab, Co-Director of SRLab, and Co-Director of the SOAR Program, whose vision, mentorship, and commitment to inclusive research have helped shape a vibrant and collaborative research environment. Through her guidance, the labs continue to advance cutting-edge research while nurturing the next generation of scholars. As Co-Director of SOAR, she oversees and supports a diverse community of students, including many women researchers. Beyond her academic leadership, Dr. Roy is deeply committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes student mental and physical well-being, inclusivity, and mutual support within the lab community.

The women of SRLab and iSE Lab exemplify how diverse perspectives and compassionate leadership drive innovation, collaboration, and meaningful progress in research.

👏 We celebrate their achievements and thank them for the inspiration they bring to our labs and the broader software engineering community.

Tune into CFCR 90.5 FM this Sunday at 8am and learn more about the journey and achievements of Dr. Chanchal Roy. You can also listen live on the website Cfcr.ca

Time to announce our next guest speaker 🎉
This Sunday morning we will have with us Chanchal K. Roy!!! Chanchal Roy is Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.
He is the co-lead of the Big Data Analytics group of an NSERC Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) on Food security. As the co-author of the widely used NICAD code clone detection system, he has published more than 150 refereed publications that have been cited more than 4,700 times with h-index of 31 and i10-idex of 75.
His contributions to the software maintenance community, and particularly to the software clones community, have been highly influential, recently winning Most Influential Paper awards at both SANER 2018 and ICPC 2018.
Recently, he has been recognized with the New Scientist Research Award of the College of Arts and Science of the University of Saskatchewan. He is one of three Canadian computer scientists honoured with a prestigious award for young researchers, a 2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award by CS-Can/Info-Can, a national, non-profit society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada. He is also going to receive the 2019 New Researcher Award of the University of Saskatchewan, a competition among all the young researchers of the University regardless of their Departments/Colleges. Dr. Roy was a vision keynote speaker at WCRE/CSMR 2014 on software clones, and a keynote/invited speaker at both IWSC 2018 and IEEE R10HTC 2018. He serves widely on the program committees of major software engineering conferences such as ICSE, ICSME, SANER, MSR, ICPC and SCAM, and has been regular reviewers of the major journals in Software Engineering. He served (has been serving) as chairs in most of the conferences of his area including General Chair for ICPC 2014, SCAM 2019, IWSC 2015 and Program Co-chairs for ICPC 2018. Dr. Roy works in the broad area of software engineering, with particular emphasis on software evolution and maintenance, recommender systems in software engineering, automated software debugging, and big data analytics in software engineering.
Tune into CFCR 90.5 FM this Sunday at 8am and learn more about his journey and achievements.
You can also listen live on our website Cfcr.ca