PhD Student Hyunmin SEO and Prof Sunghun KIM Awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on ASE

The paper, "Predicting Recurring Crash Stacks" by PhD student Hyunmin SEO and Prof Sunghun KIM, has received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). This is the second time for Prof Kim to win the prestigious award.

Hyunmin and Prof Kim identified many recurring crashes after crash fixes and proposed an effective algorithm to identify these recurring crashes in advance for easy debugging.

The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award is the most prestigious software engineering conference paper award. The award is given to the selected papers from SIGSOFT sponsored premier software engineering conferences, including ICSE, FSE, ASE, and ISSTA. Only around 10% of accepted papers (1-2% of submitted papers) are selected for the award. "The IEEE/ACM ASE conference series is one of the most premier Software Engineering conferences worldwide. Each year, it brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss foundations, techniques and tools for automating the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems."

(from left to right) Prof Tim Menzies (Program Co-chair), Prof Kim, Hyunmin, Prof Motoshi Saeki (Program Co-chair), and Prof Michael Goedicke (General Chair) at the Award Presentation Ceremony for the ASE Conference 2012