Alexander Serebrenik
@aserebrenik.bsky.social
Professor of Social Software Engineering. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Diversity, inclusion and source code.
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Are you working on human aspects of software engineering?
Submit your work to the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026): abstracts by October 16, papers by October 23 conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2...
Submit your work to the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026): abstracts by October 16, papers by October 23 conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2...
September 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Are you working on human aspects of software engineering?
Submit your work to the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026): abstracts by October 16, papers by October 23 conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2...
Submit your work to the 19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2026): abstracts by October 16, papers by October 23 conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2...
At the Dutch National Software Engineering Symposium (SEN symposium) Anton Podkopaev (JetBrains and Constructor University Bremen) talks about generating lemmas for formal verification in Rocq (previously known as Coq) using generative AI.
May 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
At the Dutch National Software Engineering Symposium (SEN symposium) Anton Podkopaev (JetBrains and Constructor University Bremen) talks about generating lemmas for formal verification in Rocq (previously known as Coq) using generative AI.
Feeling proud: dear students of Eindhoven U of Technology - Math & CS thank you for the great evaluation, @loekhere.bsky.social - the news and @lfpaganini.bsky.social Nathan Cassee - helping to shape the course.
Teaching materials for the course: www.emse.education/10-teaching-...
Teaching materials for the course: www.emse.education/10-teaching-...
May 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Feeling proud: dear students of Eindhoven U of Technology - Math & CS thank you for the great evaluation, @loekhere.bsky.social - the news and @lfpaganini.bsky.social Nathan Cassee - helping to shape the course.
Teaching materials for the course: www.emse.education/10-teaching-...
Teaching materials for the course: www.emse.education/10-teaching-...
“The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion”. Alan Turing quoted by David Lorge Parnas at his keynote talk at ICSE 2025.
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion”. Alan Turing quoted by David Lorge Parnas at his keynote talk at ICSE 2025.
Students believe in importance of emotional intelligence in team and academic success —Marcos Kalinowski at CHASE 2025
April 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Students believe in importance of emotional intelligence in team and academic success —Marcos Kalinowski at CHASE 2025
How can clustering help emotion recognition? — Daniela Grassi at CHASE 2025
April 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
How can clustering help emotion recognition? — Daniela Grassi at CHASE 2025
Both LLMs studied by Denys Poshyvanyk produce smelly code. #TechDebt2025 @techdebtconf.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Both LLMs studied by Denys Poshyvanyk produce smelly code. #TechDebt2025 @techdebtconf.bsky.social
At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk talks about technical debt in LLM-generated code.
April 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk talks about technical debt in LLM-generated code.
Securing Dependencies: A Comprehensive Study of
Dependabot’s Impact on Vulnerability Mitigation" by Hamid Mohayeji, Andrei Agaronian, Eleni Constantinou, Nicola Zannone and yt accepted at Empirical Software Engineering journal.
Dependabot’s Impact on Vulnerability Mitigation" by Hamid Mohayeji, Andrei Agaronian, Eleni Constantinou, Nicola Zannone and yt accepted at Empirical Software Engineering journal.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Securing Dependencies: A Comprehensive Study of
Dependabot’s Impact on Vulnerability Mitigation" by Hamid Mohayeji, Andrei Agaronian, Eleni Constantinou, Nicola Zannone and yt accepted at Empirical Software Engineering journal.
Dependabot’s Impact on Vulnerability Mitigation" by Hamid Mohayeji, Andrei Agaronian, Eleni Constantinou, Nicola Zannone and yt accepted at Empirical Software Engineering journal.
Sunday evening reading.
March 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sunday evening reading.
ISEC gave me two awards for two invited talks 🙂 They represent a scene from the Kurukshetra war (Maharabhata) with Krishna driving the chariot of Arjuna. #kurukshetra #academictravel
February 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ISEC gave me two awards for two invited talks 🙂 They represent a scene from the Kurukshetra war (Maharabhata) with Krishna driving the chariot of Arjuna. #kurukshetra #academictravel
A moment of pride: my former PhD student Monika Gupta has won the very first ISEC test of time award. While she has done this work with her previous supervisor late dr Shureka, I am still very proud of her amazing accomplishment. Congratulations!
February 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A moment of pride: my former PhD student Monika Gupta has won the very first ISEC test of time award. While she has done this work with her previous supervisor late dr Shureka, I am still very proud of her amazing accomplishment. Congratulations!
It is great to attend ISEC at NIT Kurukshetra and learn about the exciting software engineering research happening in India.
February 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It is great to attend ISEC at NIT Kurukshetra and learn about the exciting software engineering research happening in India.
First world problems
January 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
First world problems
Just Accepted at ACM TOSEM: Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions by Hyrynsalmi, Baltes, Brown, Prikladnicki, Rodriguez-Perez, yt, Simmonds, Trinkenreich, Wang, Liebel dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
January 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Just Accepted at ACM TOSEM: Making Software Development More Diverse and Inclusive: Key Themes, Challenges, and Future Directions by Hyrynsalmi, Baltes, Brown, Prikladnicki, Rodriguez-Perez, yt, Simmonds, Trinkenreich, Wang, Liebel dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Next week I am teaching empirical methods and it is time to show one of my favorite works of art (slightly modified though)
January 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Next week I am teaching empirical methods and it is time to show one of my favorite works of art (slightly modified though)
It is an honor to be elected. Looking forward to working with this highly inspiring group of colleagues for the benefit of the community.
December 20, 2024 at 10:07 PM
It is an honor to be elected. Looking forward to working with this highly inspiring group of colleagues for the benefit of the community.
TODAY Dec 14 is the birthday of Stephen Cook (1939). In 1971 he formalized the notions of polynomial-time reduction and NP-completeness, and proved that SAT is NP-complete (also proven independently by Leonid Levin). He also formulated the famous P vs. NP problem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...
December 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM
TODAY Dec 14 is the birthday of Stephen Cook (1939). In 1971 he formalized the notions of polynomial-time reduction and NP-completeness, and proved that SAT is NP-complete (also proven independently by Leonid Levin). He also formulated the famous P vs. NP problem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...
Attending (online) a PhD defence of Giulia Sellitto!
December 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Attending (online) a PhD defence of Giulia Sellitto!
Today Dec 10 Joe Ossanna was born (1928), an electrical engineer and a programmer known for his work with Unix. Died November 28, 1977. In 1994 the Usenix Association created a set of playing cards with pictures of early members of the Unix community, Joe was K❤️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Oss...
December 10, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Today Dec 10 Joe Ossanna was born (1928), an electrical engineer and a programmer known for his work with Unix. Died November 28, 1977. In 1994 the Usenix Association created a set of playing cards with pictures of early members of the Unix community, Joe was K❤️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Oss...
Today on Dec 7 Noam Chomsky (1928) was born. While his accomplishments are numerous, for CS folks like me is probably most known for his contributions for the automata theory (Chomsky normal form, hierarchy of formal languages).
December 7, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Today on Dec 7 Noam Chomsky (1928) was born. While his accomplishments are numerous, for CS folks like me is probably most known for his contributions for the automata theory (Chomsky normal form, hierarchy of formal languages).
Colleagues from biomedical engineering are on fire. #softwaretesting @issta.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Colleagues from biomedical engineering are on fire. #softwaretesting @issta.bsky.social
A small choice of the TU/e swag including a lovely booklet by Lourens Touwen and Tristan Trouwen, two (former) mathematics students. I don’t earn money from sales of “From scribble to readable” but I regularly see CS students struggling with δ, σ and ρ and often recommend this book.
December 6, 2024 at 10:38 PM
A small choice of the TU/e swag including a lovely booklet by Lourens Touwen and Tristan Trouwen, two (former) mathematics students. I don’t earn money from sales of “From scribble to readable” but I regularly see CS students struggling with δ, σ and ρ and often recommend this book.
It is interesting that when Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann and Denae Ford have surveyed developers, they have reported a very different distribution of time spent. For further details check the preprint arxiv.org/pdf/2107.07023 (published at FSE 2021).
December 6, 2024 at 9:12 PM
It is interesting that when Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann and Denae Ford have surveyed developers, they have reported a very different distribution of time spent. For further details check the preprint arxiv.org/pdf/2107.07023 (published at FSE 2021).