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Paper Characterizing the Usefulness of Code Review Comments in Scientific Software for Software Quality and Scientific Rigor by Sharif Ahmed & Nasir Eisty accepted at PASC 2026 in Bern, Switzerland. Congratulations to Sharif! Paper

Paper Multi-Artifact Analysis of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Scientific Software by Eric Melin, Nasir Eisty, Gregory Watson & Addi Malviya Thakur accepted at PASC 2026 in Bern, Switzerland. Congratulations to Eric! Paper

Paper Exploring Sustainability in Scientific Software through Code Quality & Test Coverage Metrics by Sheikh Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Gregory Watson & Nasir Eisty accepted at PASC 2026 in Bern, Switzerland. Congratulations to Mushfiqur (late)! Paper

Eric Melin won the 2026 Graduate Poster Award of Computing in the Ph.D. category. Huge congratulations to Eric! Award

Eventful ICSE 2026 — International Conference on Software Engineering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Proud to be there with the lab and collaborators contributing across workshops, tracks, and organization:

• Eric Melin, Adam Torek, Nasir Eisty, Casey Kennington — Precision or Peril: A PoC of Python Code Quality from Quantized Large Language Models at the AI4SQE Workshop
• Shane Panter, Nasir Eisty — Technical Lag as Latent Technical Debt: A Rapid Review at TechDebt 2026
• Jeremy Husle, Nasir Eisty, Tim Menzies — Shaky Structures: The Wobbly World of Causal Graphs in Software Analytics at the Journal First Track
• Shaznin Sultana, Sadia Afreen, Nasir Eisty — LLMs in Code Vulnerability Analysis: A Proof of Concept at the SVM Workshop
• Organizing the SERS Workshop (Software Engineering and Research Software) with Jeffrey Carver, Myra Cohen, Stephan Druskat, Alfredo Goldman, Daniel Katz & Reed Milewicz
• Chairing a Research Track session on Testing and Analysis

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Paper Applications of Causality in Software Testing: A Rapid Review by Tiancheng Ma & Nasir Eisty accepted at EASE 2026 in Glasgow, UK. Congratulations to Tiancheng Ma! Paper

Paper Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Scientific Software: Prioritization, Sentiment, and Propagation Across Artifacts by Eric Melin, Nasir Eisty, Addi Thakur & Greg Watson accepted at PEARC 2026 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Congratulations to Eric! Paper

Paper Peer Code Review in Research Software: Practices, Improvements, and Implementation Challenges from Interviews of RSEs by Ariful Malik, Jeffrey Carver & Nasir Eisty accepted at PEARC 2026 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Congratulations to Ariful! Paper

My 3rd Ph.D. advisee Shane Panter successfully defended his dissertation Measuring Technical Lag in Software Ecosystems: An Empirical Approach. Congratulations, Dr. Shane Panter! Milestone

Eric Melin passed his Ph.D. proposal When Science Admits Its Shortcuts: Detecting and Managing Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Scientific Software. Congratulations, Eric! Milestone

Serving as Program Committee Member for ICSE 2026 and ISSTA 2026. Service

Won Best Poster Award at US-RSE 2025 for Ten Simple Rules for Catalyzing Collaborations and Building Bridges Between Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers with Johanna Cohoon & Jeffrey Carver. Award

Two articles published in IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE). Thanks to all collaborators! Paper

Assumed the role of Department Editor for the Software Engineering & Scientific Computing department of IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE). Role

Joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Milestone

Sheikh Md. Mushfiqur Rahman presented our poster Exploring Sustainability in Scientific Software Through Code Quality Metrics at the 2025 Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference.

Paper Shaky Structures: The Wobbly World of Causal Graphs in Software Analytics published in the EMSE Journal in collaboration with Jeremy Husle & Tim Menzies (NC State University). Paper

NSF grant on formal methods in scientific software funded with Dr. Elena Sherman & Dr. Grady Wright. Grant

Paper PVAC: Package Version Activity Categorizer, Leveraging Semantic Versioning in a Heterogeneous System by Shane Panter and Luke Hindman published in the EMSE Journal. Congratulations to Shane! Paper

Ph.D. student Sharif Ahmed will join University of Central Arkansas CS as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. Placement

Mushfiqur Rahman will intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory this summer. Shane Panter passed his Ph.D. proposal. Milestone

Paper Testing Research Software: An In-Depth Survey of Practices, Methods, and Tools accepted in the EMSE Journal with Upulee Kanewala & Jeffrey Carver. Paper

Paper Hold On! Is My Feedback Useful? Evaluating the Usefulness of Code Review Comments accepted in the EMSE Journal. Congratulations to Sharif! Paper

Sharif Ahmed & Shariful Alam passed their Ph.D. proposals. Eric Melin passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations to all! Milestone

Poster Software Testing Practices for Reproducible Open Science accepted to AGU 2024 in Washington D.C.

Paper Rusty Linux: Advances in Rust for Linux Kernel Development accepted to ESEM 2024 in Barcelona. Congratulations to Shane! Paper

Attended Dagstuhl Seminar Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Germany.

Grant ($250K) funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Grant

Paper Developers’ Perceptions of Peer Code Review in Research Software accepted to EMSE. Paper