Schedule
The following is the tentative schedule for the Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS). Also see the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) program too. The event takes place in Matthews Theatre D.
Day 1 - Tuesday 30 January 2024
09:00-16:00 Conference Registration | Central Lecture Block | Ground Floor Foyer.
ACSW Official Opening (O’Shane 105)
09:30-10:00 ACSW Official Opening and Welcome, and CORE Award Presentations
10:00-11:00 ACSW Keynote - Tongliang Liu (Sydney) - Learning with Noisy Labels
11:00-11:30 Morning Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 1: Requirements Engineering and Model-Driven Engineering (Matthews Theatre D)
11:30-12:15 Didar Zowghi (CSIRO) - Requirements Engineering for Responsible AI
12:15-13:00 Etienne Borde (Canterbury) - Low-code and Model-Driven Software Engineering
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 2: Programming Languages Design and Implementation (Matthews Theatre D)
14:00-14:45 Patrick Lam (Waterloo) - Hot Takes on Machine Learning for Program Analysis
14:45-15:30 Steve Blackburn (Google) - Memory Safety and the Case for Modular VM Development
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 3: PhD research (Matthews Theatre D)
16:00-16:45 PhD Lightning Talks
16:45-17:30 PhD Posters session
17:30-19:00 ASESS Informal Social sponsored by Google (Matthews Pavilions)
Day 2 - Wednesday 31 January 2024
09:00-16:00 Conference Registration | Mathews Building – Ground Floor Foyer
ACSW Plenary (Matthews Theatre B)
09:30-10:30 ACSW Keynote - Mike Godfrey (Waterloo) - Swimming with the data: Philately will get you everywhere
10:30-11:00 ACSW Lightning Talks
11:00-11:30 Morning Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 4: Empirical Software Engineering (Matthews Theatre D)
11:30-12:15 Tony Clear (AUT) - Assessing the Progression of Software Engineering Competencies
12:15-13:00 Martin Kropp (FHNW) - Understanding Agile Software Development – Insights from Empirical Analysis of the Swiss Agile Studies
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 5: ACSW Keynote and Mobile Security (Matthews Theatre B and Matthews Theatre D)
14:00-14:45 John Grundy (Monash) - ACSW Keynote Talk - Learnings from Australia and New Zealand Grant Assessments
14:45-15:30 Xiaoyu Sun (ANU) - Demystifying security and compatibility issues in Android Apps
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 6: PhD Journey, Diversity, and Inclusion (Matthews Theatre D)
16:00-16:45 Matthias Galster (Canterbury) - The PhD Journey
16:45-17:30 Kelly Blincoe (Auckland) - ENGclusion: setting up a longitudinal study
18:15-21:45 ACSW Banquet - The Lounge, UNSW - Level 11, Library (F21), Library Rd, UNSW Sydney, Kensington NSW 2052
Day 3 - Thursday 1 February 2024
09:00-16:00 Conference Registration | Mathews Building – Ground Floor Foyer
ACSW Plenary (Matthews Theatre B)
08:45-09:30 ACSW Keynote - Lyria Bennett Moses (UNSW) - Getting to safe and responsible AI: What policies are needed?
Session 7: Programming Languages (Matthews Theatre D)
09:30-10:15 Tim McNarmara (Accelerant) - Making memory unsafety hard: Rust's unsafe keyword as a case study in software robustness
1015-1100 Rahul Gopinath (Sydney) - How to Talk to Strange Programs and Find Bugs
11:00-11:30 Morning Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 8: Software Engineering & AI (Matthews Theatre D)
11:30-12:15 Aldeida Aleti (Monash) - Automated Testing of AI-based systems
12:15-13:00 Liming Zhu (CSIRO) - The Pivotal Role of Software Engineering and DevOps in Responsible AI
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 9: Software Security (Matthews Theatre D)
14:00-14:45 Mengmeng Ge (Canterbury) - Demystifying the Evolution of IoT Malware
14:45-15:30 Adrian Herrera (ANU) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fuzzer Coverage Metrics
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break (Matthews Pavilions)
Session 10: Software Security and Analysis (Matthews Theatre D)
16:00-16:45 Jens Dietrich (VUW) - The Limitations of Software Composition Analysis
1645:1730 Sherif Haggag (Adelaide) - Personalized Guidelines for Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Anti-phishing Interventions
17:30-17:45 Closing & Farewell