news / Apr 18, 2026
Second place in the ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2026
Apr 18, 2026 · event
RESHAPE Lab traveled to Rio de Janeiro for ICSE 2026.
Sam Utzinger, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, and PhD student Pedro Oliveira both reached the finals of the ACM Student Research Competition. After the paper and poster rounds, Sam advanced to the final oral presentations and finished in second place.
Lab members also co-authored papers in ICSE tracks and co-located events:
- SEET: "What barriers do students experience when trying to contribute to Open Source Software projects?" by Nathan Cassee, Sankarsh Ravi, Ítalo Santos, Igor Steinmacher and Alexander Serebrenik
- IDE: "Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective" by Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude and 29 co-authors, including Marco Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher and Mairieli Wessel
- GAS: "Evaluating the Effect of Generative AI Content in Common Game Development Software Architectures" by Ashish Amresh, Siddharth Subramanian and Igor Steinmacher
- CHASE: "Governance in Practice: How Open Source Projects Define and Document Roles" by Pedro Oliveira, Tayana Conte, Marco Gerosa and Igor Steinmacher, which received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award