Software Research Lab - USASK

🌟 Celebrating the Women of SRLab and iSE Lab 🌟

Today, we celebrate the remarkable women researchers and scholars of SRLab and iSE Lab, whose dedication, creativity, and leadership continue to advance impactful research in software engineering, AI-assisted development, and empirical studies of developer practices.

From advancing empirical studies to exploring the human-centered aspects of software engineering, the women of both labs are making meaningful contributions that strengthen our research community and the broader field.

We especially recognize the leadership of Dr. Banani Roy, Director of iSE Lab, Co-Director of SRLab, and Co-Director of the SOAR Program, whose vision, mentorship, and commitment to inclusive research have helped shape a vibrant and collaborative research environment. Through her guidance, the labs continue to advance cutting-edge research while nurturing the next generation of scholars. As Co-Director of SOAR, she oversees and supports a diverse community of students, including many women researchers. Beyond her academic leadership, Dr. Roy is deeply committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes student mental and physical well-being, inclusivity, and mutual support within the lab community.

The women of SRLab and iSE Lab exemplify how diverse perspectives and compassionate leadership drive innovation, collaboration, and meaningful progress in research.

👏 We celebrate their achievements and thank them for the inspiration they bring to our labs and the broader software engineering community.

Join us on December 11 for an ACM SIGSOFT webinar exploring how Bangladeshi graduate talent and LLM-driven methods are shaping global software engineering research. Dr. Chanchal Roy will share insights, examples, and lessons on building sustainable international research pipelines.

Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM CST / 9:30 PM Bangladesh
Register: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Apx__EfzryU8Lgn8CsKz-18T4eqvN-0aKwALxAa7AuEKp-Vm_6MI~Ak2-drw87ElYDwCHhZE8T246soyEDCL_aB6V_aXdYK2zaV26w8SvAI2KPQ

A great opportunity for students, researchers, and anyone interested in collaboration and emerging talent in software engineering.

Learn more about our lab: SRlab.usask.ca
Learn more about Prof Chanchal Roy: clones.usask.ca

A collaborative research work between SRLab USASK and the Federal University of Uberlândia has been featured in Stack Overflow blogs.

CROKAGE – the Crowd Knowledge Answer Generator takes the description of a programming task as a query and then provides relevant, comprehensive programming solutions containing both code snippets and their succinct explanations.

Congratulations to Rodrigo Fernandes(visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Uberlândia), Masud Rahman (PhD candidate from SRLab USASK) and Dr. Chanchal Roy for your success in collaboration research.

CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow Blog One of the most powerful attributes of Stack Overflow (SO) is the accumulation of developers’ knowledge over time. Community members have contributed more than 18 million questions and 27 million answers. When a developer is stuck on a coding problem, they search through this vast trove of informa...

We are very happy to share that Dr. Chanchal Roy is co-leading the P2IRC (https://p2irc.usask.ca/) Data Management and Repository project (over a million with matching fund) effective immediately. With this he is looking for a number of PhD students and a couple of Big Data Management Specialists/Managers. He will provide competitive salaries for the staff positions. He thanked to Dr. Banani Roy (and her students) for their hard work and leadership in the P2IRC Big Data Cloud project (Phase I). Their expertise and findings from Phase I will be crucial in this project too (Phase II). Anyone interested please feel free to contact at [email protected] or at [email protected].

Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - U of S Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - University of Saskatchewan P2IRC is a digital agriculture research centre funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, managed by the Global Institute for Food Security, and located at the University of Saskatchewan. Research themes include Phenometrics, Image Acquisition Technologies, Computational Informatics of Cro...

The remarkable moment when Dr. Chanchal Roy was receiving the CS-Can/Info-Can outstanding young computer science researcher award!

It is the week of 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). This Year ICSE is organized at the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada. From SRLab-USASK, the participants at ICSE and its co-hosted conferences are:
1. Masud Rahman (Doctoral Symposium)
2. Saikat Mondal (MSR)
3. Rodrigo Fernandes (ICPC)

We wish them the best of luck and hope they will strengthen the bridge between SRLab-USASK with SE research community.

MSR 2019 on Twitter “Welcome to , Saikat Mondal (U Saskatchewan)! Saikat studies Q&A on Stack Overflow, finding that questions with reproducible issues have at least three times higher chance of receiving an accepted answer than those with irreproducible issues. ”

Congratulations! to Mashrafi Iqra.

We are pleased to share a piece of great news with everyone that Mashrafi got a 16-month Internship at as a Software Developer Intern from May 2019. In this event, he thanked Dr. Chanchal Roy for giving him the opportunity to work as a Summer Research student with University of Saskatchewan Summer Research Award under Dr. Roy's close supervision last summer. He also praised Golam Mostaeen and Rayhaan Ferdous, Graduate Researchers of SR Lab, for guiding him while he was working in the lab last Summer.

We wish him good luck.