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Apr2: New paper, IEEE TSE: Optimizing worker recommendations in crowdsourced testing More...

Feb2: Two journal-first papers accepted to ICSE'20.

Jan10: On walkabout in Western Australia for a month.

Jan 5: New IEEE Software Column '5 Laws of SE for AI' More...

Jan 3: New IEEE TSE paper 'Better data labelling' More...

Dec 20: New EMSE journal paper: 'Analytics from Multiple Projects'

Dec 19: Three of my Ph.D. students graduate: Jianfeng Chen, Amritanshu Agrawali, Rahul Krishna

Dec 15: Accepted to ICSE SEIP'20 'Assessing Practitioner Belief's' More...

Dec 10: New EMSE paper 'DUO=Data mining+optimizing More...

Nov 20: New DoD SBIR funding: Sail-on AI. $70K

Oct 10: New TSE paper 'Improving Vulnerability Inspections' More...

Oct 10: New LAS funding 'Fairness is a choice': $164K

Sept 30: New award: most influential paper award (from ICSM'09): 'On the use of Relevance Feedback in IR-based Concept Location' More...

Sept 30: New NSF grant: AI Workforce Empowerment, $950K

Sept 20: New NSF grant: 'Empirical SE for Computationally Science': $590K

Sept 10: New ESA journal paper 'An Intelligent assistant for finding relevant papers'

Sept 1: New funding from Facebook: Ethical by Design, $50K

Aug 1: New gift from Lexis Nexis: $120K

July 12: New NSF grant $499K, Mega-Transfer

July 12: Invited to editorial board, IST journal

July 8: New NSF grant $499K, Vulnerability Detection

June 11: Paper accepted SEIP FSE'19: 'TERMINATOR: Better Automated UI Test Case Prioritization'. More...

June 11: Paper accepted SEIP FSE'19: 'Predicting Breakdowns in Cloud Services'. More...

June 7: Laser talk, summer school, Elba, Italy. More...

May 31: TSE Journal paper presented at ICSE: 'iSENSE: Completion-Aware Crowdtesting Management'. More...

May 31: TSE Journal first paper presented at ICSE: 'Finding Faster Configurations using FLASH'. More...

May 30: ROSE2 festival: a success at ICSE'19. More...

May 30: Peggy Storey makes me the 54% majority approach in current SE. More...

May 30: Slides, keynote SEIP "Why Software Works (and How to Make it Work Better)". More...

May 30: Now guest editor, Special Issue, EMSE, SE in the age of AI. Papers due Oct 15. More...

May 30: Now guest editor, Special Issue, IEEE Software, The AI Effect. Papers due Dec 1. More...

May 26: Slides, ICPC'19: Replication Can Improve Prior Results. More...

May 25: Slides from MSR'19 discussion: SE in the age of AI. More...

May 24: Slides for Semla'19 talk: Data! Data! Data! More...

May 10: Invited to give keynote, ICSA'20. More...

May 9: Jianfeng Chen passes his Ph.D. final exam More...

May 8: Amritanshu Agrawal passes his Ph.D. final exam More...

May 1: How often can you say this? I'm ranked #1 academic at the #1 SE research group, in the world. More...

Apr 14: 'iSENSE: Completion-Aware Crowdtesting Management' earns ICSE'19 distinguished paper award More...

Apr 14: 'Finding Faster Configurations using FLASH': invited to be journal-first presentation at ICSE'19

Apr 14: Invited to give ICSE'19 SEIP talk: 'On the unresonable effectiveness of software analyticsi'

Apr 12: New paper, accepted to IST journal: 'Bad Smells for Software Analytics'

Mar 12: New paper, TSE journal: 'Better Optimize Crowdsourced Testing' More...

Mar 9: Invited to present a keynote, ICSME'20 (Adelaide, Australia)

Mar 6: New paper, IST journal: 'Images Dont Lie: Duplicate Crowdtesting Reports Detection' More...

Mar 1: New paper: 'Replication Can Improve Prior Results'. ICPC 19. More...

Feb 13: New video on-line, Analytics for Computational Science More...

Feb 10: New pre-print: Crowd Sourcing and Data Mining More...

Feb 7: New video on-line, my CodeFreeze'19 talk 'After data mining, what is next?' More...

Feb 3: New pre-print: Optimizers and data miners are better than ether, alone More...

Feb 2: New pre-print: How to 'DODGE' complex software analytics' (refutes many of my own past papers) More...

Feb 1: Invited to IEEE Fellow 2020 review board

Jan 25: Named 'top reviewer' for JSS and 'distingusihed reveiwer' for TOSEM (7 years in a row) More...

Jan 20: Invited to give an talk to ICSE SEIP'19 More...

Jan 9: Invited to ICSE'20 program committee

Jan 9: Invited to be co-PC chair, PROMISE'20 (at FSE'20)

Jan 2: Invited to ESEM'19 program committee

Dec 27: Invited to MSR'19 program committee

Dec 15: Invited to ASE'19 program committee

Nov 22: Appointed IEEE Fellow

Nov 22: Career research funding now $10M

Nov 21: Talk, EAQSE'18: Empirical SE, status report More...

Nov 10: Appointed co-general chair, RAISE'19 More...

Nov 10: new journal paper, Expert Systems with Applications, an Intelligent Assistant for Finding Relevant Papers More...

Nov 7: Talk, technical program, FSE'18: Applications of Psychology for Analytics More...

Nov 7: co-organizer 1st ROSE festival: Open Science in SE More...

Nov 6: Keynote, FSE'18: What Role for Programmers in Software 2.0 More...

Nov 1: Invited to the FSE'19 program committee

Oct 11: Invited to the MSR'19 program committee

Sept 30: Paper accepted to NL4SE: 'Total Recall for SE' More...

Sept 23: New award: $40K faculty award from IBM

Sept 6: Paper accepted, IEEE TSE, 'Finding Trends in SE Research' More...

Aug 27: Paper accepted, IEEE TSE, 'Finding Faster Configurations with FLASH' More...

July 25: New pre-print, IEEE Software "Software Analytics, What's next?" More...

July 23: New funding: $110K from Lexis Nexis. Cloud Computing Config and Test prioritization.

July 21: Total career funding rises to $10M.

July 19: My 2007 IEEE TSE paper tops 1000 citations. More...

July 18: Invited to speak at Code Freeze, January, 2019.

July 19: Invited to FSE'19 program committee.

July 5: New pre-print, IEEE Software "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Software Analytics" More...

Jun 30: Accepted to FSE'18 (Journal first): Active Learning for Lit Reviews More...

Jun 28: Our text mining research reported in Elseiveir Connect More...

Jun 11: Accepted to FSE'18: Psychological Science for Software Analytics More...

May 28: Amrit Agrawal presents on a 'better SMOTE' at ICSE'18 More...

May 28: Amrit Agrawal speaks on 'hero programming' at ICSE-SEIP'18 More...

May 28: Tim Menzies speaks on Software assurance and AI' at an ICSE'18 workskop More...

May 26: Tim Menzies speaks on SBSE+MSR at MSR'18 More...

May 14: New Ph.D. graduated: **Dr** Wei Fu. More...

May 2: Invited Talk, Navy Research Labs, AI+Softwre Asurance. More...

Apr 20: Accepted IEEE Cloud: 'MICKEY: Cheaper Selecting Cloud Instances' More...

Apr 18: Accepted IEEE Cloud: 'RIOT: Rapid Configuration Cloud Workflows' More...

Apr 12: New NSF grant $124K, SE for Computational Science

Mar 30: Bayesian Optimization for Finding Best Cloud VM More...

Mar 2: For MSR'18: 500+ Times Faster Than Deep Learning More...

Mar 2: For MSR'18: Data-Driven Search-based Software Engineering More...

Jan 30: For TSE: Bellwethers, Baselines For Transfer Learning More...

Jan 22: For SEIP'18: Impact of "Heroes" on Software Development More...

Jan 22: For SEIP'18: Connection Between Issues, Bugs, and Enhancements? More...

Dec 28: A deep learning model for estimating story points More...

Dec 25: Now TOSEM distinquished referee, 2011 to 2016. More...

Dec 22: Invited to SSBSE'18 program committee

Dec 18: New paper, on-line "Discovering relevant API methods" More...

Dec 14: Accepted to IEEE TSE: 'Sampling' as a Baseline Optimizer for Search-based Software Engineering'. More...

Dec 13: Accepted to ICSE'18: Is 'Better Data' Better Than 'Better Data Miners'? More...

Dec 11: Photos: Data-driven Search-based SE, Japan, Dec'17. More...

Dec 11: Accepted to EMSE: Finding Better Active Learners for Faster Literature Reviews. More...

Dec 11: Keynote, Japan: When data miners met optimizers. More...

Dec 8: Invited to ESEM'18 PC.

Nov 9: Invited Talk, IBM TEC conference. More...

Sept 14: Photos from the 2017 Symposium on Search-based SE. More...

Sept 11: Elected to steering committee, Symposium Search-based Software Engineering.

Sept 7: Now on-line 'Beyond Evolutionary Algorithms' More...

Sept 6: Wei Fu presents at FSE'17 'Easy over Hard Deep Learning' More...

Sept 6: Vivek Nair presents at FSE'17 'Bad Learners to Find Good Configurations' More...

Sept 4: Photos from 'Software Analytics', 2017 More...

Sept 2: Now on-line 'Faster Discovery of Faster Configurations' More...

Aug 31: LAS'18 grant selected: 'How to Make a Magician' More...

Aug 31: LAS'18 grant selected: 'Analytics Science with (In,Ab,De)duction' More...

Aug 25: RIOT: a Novel Stochastic Method for Rapidly Configuring Cloud-Based Workflows More...

July 26: Shiny new lab space! More...

July 24: Not a bad week. 3 papers accepted (with minor revisions) to IST,ASE,EMSE journals

July 19: Appointed associate editor, ACM TOSEM

July 13: Appointed to editorial board, IEEE Software

July 5: Guest lecture, Monash Uni., 'Simpler Analytics' More...

June 22: Conference co-chairing for 2018: RE'18(data); FSE'18(artifacts)

June 21: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member. Next step, IEEE Fellow?

June 21: Journal first paper accepted to FSE'17: 'Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve?' More...

June 13: Journal paper accepted to TSE: 'Heterogeneous Defect Prediction' More...

June 5: New workshop: Frontiers of AI+SE More...

June 3: New faculty award from IBM: 40K

June 2: Three papers accepted to FSE'17. Well done team! More...

May 29: New NSF (medium) award: $900K More...

May 24: Gave talk, ICSE'17: Trends and Topics in SE More...

May 23: Given inaugural foundational contribution award for MSR More...

May 11: RE'17 accepts 'SHORTer reasoning about larger requirements model' More...

May 10: NSF agrees to fund our SWAN'17 meeting. More...

May 6: Better software analytics via intelligence data rebalancing (SMOTE+DE). More...

Apr 20: ASE journal accepts paper (with minor revision): 'Faster Discovery of Faster System Configurations with Spectral Learning' More...

Apr 2: Career funding tops $9M More...

Mar 27: Video of my London talk, 'Analytics Without SBSE Considered Harmful' More...

Mar 24: Journal paper accepted to IST: Minimizing Code Reorganization More...

Mar 19: Just won: the inaugural MSR Foundational Contibution Award More...

Mar 10: FSE accepts our proposal to run SWAN'17 More...

Feb 27: Invited to give keynote, University College, London More...

Feb 22: Workshop accepted to HICSS'18: Frontiers of AI and SE

Feb 19: New: using bad learners to find good configurations More...

Feb 18: New: many models are controlled by a handful of key decisions More...

Jan 13: New gift from Lexis Nexis: $60K extension to SElab

Jan 10: Invited to speak, NSF PI meeting, Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation, Feb 21, 2017 More...

Jan 08: Invited to editorial board, Journal of Software and Systems

Dec 20: Journal paper accepted: Discovering API Methods thru Text Mining; Software:Evol+Process with Pandita et al.

Dec 10: New tech report: How to Read Less: Better Machine Assisted Reading Methods More...

Dec 5: New tech report: Impact of Bad Early Size Predictions on Effort Estimation More...

Dec 1: Invited to the program committee of the 2017 Automated Software Engineering conference. More...

Nov 26: $75K gift from Lexix Nexis for advanced analytics

Nov 22: Journal article published: 'Negative results about Effort Estimation'. More...

Nov 17: 3 NSF submissions in one month is more than enough. !!

Nov 14: Journal article published: 'Are delayed issues harder to resolve? Revisitingcost-to-fix of defects throughout the lifecycle'. More...

Now 13: Gave keynote, International Workshop on Software Analytics More...

Oct 30: Invited to the program committee of the Systems and Software Project Line conference, 2017.

Oct 27: Most-cited research at NCSU CS, 2 months in a row. More...

Oct 26: Invited to MSR'17 program committee More...

Oct 19: Two NSF medium proposals submitted. Now crossing all fingers+toes.

Oct 12: Appointed co-PC chair for Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'17) More...

Oct 7: Successfully completed ICSME'16 as co-general chair. More...

Sept 20: Paper accepted with minor revisions, EMSE journal, Negative Results about Effort Estimation More...

Sept 16: Invited to give keynote, 2nd Int. Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN 2016) in Nov More...

Sept 15: Recommendations for Intelligence Core Reorganization. Sent to IST journal More...

Sept 9: Why DE is better than grid search. Sent to IST journal. More...

Sept 7: My new book is here. More...

Sept 1: I'm now an author of a top 100 most cited/year papers in SE More...

Aug26: Breakthrough in multi-objective optimization Sent to TSE More...

Aug26: 9000+ SE conference papers clustered. Sent to ICSE'17 More...

Aug26: How to fix topic modeling in SE. Sent to ICSE'17 More...

Aug24: New gift, $60K, Lexis Nexis, Industrial Text Mining

Aug15: New grant, $85K, Learning Analytics Sciences, Data sharing and privacy

Aug13: Paper accepted with minor revisions, EMSE journal, Phase Delay and SE More...

Jul 28: Invited to program committee ICSE'18 More...

Jul 8: New appointment: editorial board Journal of Big Data research More...

Jun 22: New appointment: editorial board IET journal More...

May 16: Keynote address, Search-based Testing, ICSE'16 More...

May 15: Tutorial, ICSE: How not to do SE Data Science More...

May 12: New appointment: editorial committee IST journal

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