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Rodrigo Santos @prof-rps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Glad to have our article on the understanding of factors that affect talent retention in software teams in Brazil based on a field study accepted at the EMSE Journal by @springernature.com with Luiz Costa, Edson Dias, Danilo Monteiro, @awdren.bsky.social, Gustavo Pinto & @aserebrenik.bsky.social 🚀

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Accepted at ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology: "Self-monitoring of Developers’ Emotions: the Case of Agile Retrospective Meetings" by Daniela Grassi, Filippo Lanubile, Nicole Novielli, Luigi Quaranta and yt. Preprint research.tue.nl/en/publicati...

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Self-monitoring of Developers' Emotions: the Case of Agile Retrospective Meetings

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Software Institute @si.usi.ch · 29/08/2025

Alexander Serebrenik (@aserebrenik.bsky.social) kicks off the last day of #SIESTA2025 by talking about the trade-offs in designing empirical studies in Software Engineering 🧐

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 02/09/2025

CHASE's GC @aserebrenik.bsky.social invites you to submit your paper! Here are his words: "People need to submit to CHASE because software is made by people and for people, and understanding software requires understanding the humans involved." Deadline is October 23. bit.ly/4mIt0KN

GENERAL CHAIR
Alexander Serebrenik
Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands

Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Professor of Social Software Engineering
Research: Social aspects of software evolution
Combines technical & social perspectives, grounded in observation & experimentation

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"Gender Diversity Interventions in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Practices" by Claudia Maria Cutrupi, Letizia Jaccheri and yours truly accepted for publication in Computer Science Review. research.tue.nl/files/365173...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The #LGBTIQ+ lunch at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) will be held on Sept 11 at Needo. If you would like to attend, please take a look at order.gomenuhq.com/menu?id=7843... and let me know about your mea preferences using docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Interested in joining Eindhoven to work on cool topics with Dr Katja Tuma and me? PhD-TA on Evaluation of Threat Assessment using AI www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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PhD-TA on Evaluation of Threat Assessment using AI

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Sunday morning: "It is a pleasure for me to provide an assessment of suitability of *** for the vacancy of ***"

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The IEEE CS TCSE supports Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in the software engineering community. Applications are welcome from all regions, with priority for proposals outside North America and Europe. Anyone may apply, though IEEE CS TCSE members will be prioritized. forms.gle/SYDWaCUiKdkb...

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TCSE Support for Community D&I Initiatives - 2025 Call for Proposals

The IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Software Engineering (TCSE) has funds to support Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives that benefit the Software Engineering community. We welcome...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It was a pleasure to discuss with Leoni Andriessen (Cursor TU Eindhoven) the role of editors in the scientific publishing process - the interview as motivated by the decision of Journal of Systems and Software to select me as the editor of the year 😊 www.cursor.tue.nl/en/backgroun...

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The hidden work behind every publication

Just when one of the largest conferences in the field of software engineering was going on, Professor Alexander Serebrenik was told that he had been named editor of the year for the Journal of Systems...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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-...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Security Vulnerabilities in Docker Images: A Cross-Tag Study of Application Dependencies" by Hamid Mohayeji, Eleni Constantinou, yt has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICSME #ICSME2025. The preprint is to come.

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“If you have a buggy program, you can fix it or call it AI”, David Parnas during his #ICSE2025 keynote Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software @icseconf.bsky.social

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Statistics is a way to handle ignorance. If we throw a dice, physics determines the outcome, but we do not have a knowledge to predict it. Instead of using statistics, we should gain this knowledge." -- David Lorge Parnas at @icseconf.bsky.social

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“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.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It is an honor to be recognized as the Editor of the Year of Journal of Systems and Software. Thank you! It is amazing to see how articles become better. However, editorial work would not be possible w/o the colleagues dedicating their time and energy to reviewing www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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#icse2025 #jss #editoroftheyear #academicexcellence #thankyoualexander | Journal of Systems and Software

🎉 Congratulations to Alexander Serebrenik — JSS Editor of the Year! 🎉 The Journal of Systems and Software proudly recognizes Alexander Serebrenik as our Editor of the Year. His outstanding commitment...

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Nicolas Diaz Ferreyra @nicolasediaz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Today @aserebrenik.bsky.social delivered a very enlightening keynote talk at #CHASE25 about the impacts of AI on Software Development Diversity & Inclusion (SDDI). Provocative and insightful, it prompted a deep reflection on the importance of supporting SDDI research efforts now more than ever! 💪

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Students believe in importance of emotional intelligence in team and academic success —Marcos Kalinowski at CHASE 2025

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

How can clustering help emotion recognition? — Daniela Grassi at CHASE 2025

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk "I used to go to the library, I could even borrow books there..." #feelingOld

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

At @techdebtconf.bsky.social Denys Poshyvanyk talks about technical debt in LLM-generated code.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What it feels like when your (academic) children grow up: John Businge, years ago a PhD student in Eindhoven University of Technology, and now Assistant Professor at UNLV in his own right, is conducting a research study on program comperehension evol-lab.cs.unlv.edu/stringexp/

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UNLV Research Study: String Readability

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Ottawa is calling🇨🇦🍁, and so is #TechDebt! Join us on April 27-28 in this new edition of the leading conference on technical debt, co-located with the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering! Hurry up and register! conf.researchr.org/attending/Te...

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Registration - TechDebt 2025

Welcome to the website of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt 2025. The TechDebt conference series is the premier event to bring together leading software engineering researchers,...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Congratulation to Nathan Cassee (PhD Eindhoven, currently postdoc at U Victoria) who has received the #MSR2025 🏆 Distinguished Doctoral Research Award! 👏🎉 It has been a great pleasure to work with Nathan and supervise his work together with Nicole Novielli.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Scientists who want to move to another country due to “increasing tensions” in the world are welcome in the Netherlands, says Minister Bruins. Research financier NWO is going to set up a fund as soon as possible." www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2025...

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New fund launched to recruit threatened scientists

Scientists who want to move to another country due to “increasing tensions” in the world are welcome in the Netherlands, says Minister Bruins. Research financier NWO is going to set up a fund as soon ...

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TechDebt Conference @techdebtconf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

You have not yet registered for #TechDebt? Then hurry up and do not miss an exciting program! ✅ 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 📝 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🏭 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 And much more! Join us in Ottawa 🇨🇦 next April 27-28! ➡️ Register here: conf.researchr.org/attending/Te...

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Registration - TechDebt 2025

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Come and discuss #technical #debt in Ottawa in April! @techdebtconf.bsky.social offers presentations from industry (Google, CodeScene, ...) and academia, and is a great opportunity to meet engineers and researchers. Reg: conf.researchr.org/attending/Te... (Two-day co-located or Single-day fee).

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TechDebt 2025

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Vorderwülbeke and Graßl found that queer software engineering students are less open about their sexuality, feel less belonging, and face more academic challenges than their humanities peers. Yet, they demonstrate greater determination to continue their studies. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04576

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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!

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A new journal article: "Lessons for Interactive Theorem Proving Researchers from a Survey of Coq Users" link.springer.com/article/10.1... with Ana de Almeida Borges, Annalí Casanueva Artís, Jean-Rémy Falleri,Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Érik Martin-Dorel, Karl Palmskog, yt & Théo Zimmermann

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Lessons for Interactive Theorem Proving Researchers from a Survey of Coq Users - Journal of Automated Reasoning

The Coq Community Survey 2022 was an online public survey of users of the Coq proof assistant conducted during February 2022. Broadly, the survey asked about use of Coq features, user interfaces, libr...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It is great to attend ISEC at NIT Kurukshetra and learn about the exciting software engineering research happening in India.

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I was revising my slides today: apparently to represent the US I was using a flag with 49 stars 😮 Apparently it was in use between January 3, 1959 when Alaska became a state and August 21, 1959 when Hawaii became a state... #funwithflags

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TechDebt Conference @techdebtconf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🔔 We are thrilled to announce a keynote talk by Denys Poshyvanyk at #TechDebt25 ! In this talk, Denys will introduce "doCode", a post hoc interpretability framework for Neural Code Models (NCMs) and show how it can help detect confounding biases. Join us next April in Ottawa! 🇨🇦🍁

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Dear Author, Here are the proofs of your article. You can submit your corrections online, via e-mail or by fax." FAX?!

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs reduced funding for ITEA4 projects from 10M to 7.25M. #funding zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2024-4...

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Staatscourant 2024, 41698 | Overheid.nl > Officiële bekendmakingen

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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...

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Negativity in self-admitted technical debt: how sentiment influences prioritization" by Nathan Cassee, Neil Ernst, Nicole Novielli and yt; recently published in Empirical Software Engineering. rdcu.be/d6nz9

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Negativity in self-admitted technical debt: how sentiment influences prioritization

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TechDebt Conference @techdebtconf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🔔 This year, we are launching a brand-new Journal First track! 😃 A unique chance to showcase your groundbreaking #TechDebt journal paper directly to an engaged audience! Don't miss this chance to make a lasting impact and submit yours by Jan 17 AoE! 👉 tinyurl.com/TechDebtJ1

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TechDebt 2025 - Journal First - TechDebt 2025

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