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