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Sep 01, 2025 Our paper “Smelling Secrets: Leveraging Machine Learning and Language Models for Sensitive Parameter Detection in Ansible” won the Distinguished Research Paper Award at SCAM 2025.
Jul 07, 2025 Co-chaired and hosted the 4th Summer School on Security Testing and Verification (ST&V 2025) in Brussels, with lectures on static analysis, abstract interpretation, formal verification, security testing, fuzzing, and concolic testing.
May 01, 2025 Our dataset paper “E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects” won the MSR 2025 Distinguished Dataset Award.
Oct 01, 2024 Our paper “Visualizing the Evolution of Systems and their Library Dependencies” won the Most Influential Paper Award at VISSOFT 2024.
Jan 01, 2024 Our book “Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics”, co-edited with Tom Mens and Anthony Cleve, is published by Springer.
Sep 01, 2023 Recipient of the ICSME 2023 Distinguished Reviewer award.
May 16, 2023 Organized and hosted the Vloeberghs Chair lecture series of Prof. Dr. Ralf Lämmel (University of Koblenz-Landau) on software analytics.
Sep 01, 2022 Our paper “Summary-Based Compositional Analysis for Soft Contract Verification” won the Best Artifact Award at SCAM 2022.
May 01, 2022 Our paper “Static Stack-Preserving Intra-Procedural Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries” won the Best Artifact Award at ICSE 2022.
Mar 01, 2022 Our paper “Uncovering Library Features from API Usage on Stack Overflow” won the IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at SANER 2022.
Sep 01, 2021 Recipient of the ICSME 2021 Distinguished Reviewer award; re-elected to the SCAM conference Steering Committee (2021–2023, second term); joined the GPCE conference series Steering Committee (2021–2026).
Sep 01, 2020 Recipient of the SCAM 2020 Distinguished Reviewer award. Participated in Dagstuhl seminar 20142 on “Resilient Software Configuration and Infrastructure Code Analysis” (March 2020).
Sep 01, 2018 Recipient of the SCAM 2018 Distinguished Reviewer award. Elected to the SCAM conference Steering Committee (2017–2020, first term).
Sep 01, 2016 Our paper “Automated Generalization and Refinement of Code Templates with Ekeko/X” won the Best Tool Paper Award at SANER 2016. Recipient of the ICSME 2016 Distinguished Reviewer award. Keynote speaker at IFL 2016.
Sep 01, 2015 Our paper “Detecting Function Purity in JavaScript” won the Best Paper Award at SCAM 2015.