2025
Conference
MSR 2025 - Most Influential Paper (MIP) Runner-up
The App Sampling Problem for App Store Mining
William Martin, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, Federica Sarro and Yuanyuan Zhang
Paper
Workshop
GI 2025 - Best Paper Award
Large Language Model based Code Completion is an Effective Genetic Improvement Mutation
Jingyuan Wang, Carol Hanna, and Justyna Petke
Paper
Workshop
GI 2025 - Best Presentation Award
LLM-Assisted Crossover in Genetic Improvement of Software
Dimitrios Bouras, Justyna Petke, and Sergey Mechtaev
Paper
2024
Conference
ESEM 2024 - Best Paper Award
Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment Comparing Automated Content Generation Techniques
Mar Zamorano López, África Domingo, Carlos Cetina, and Federica Sarro
Paper
Special
UCL Open Science & Scholarship Awards
Honourable Mention for Open-Source Software/Analytical Tools
Justyna Petke
Conference
SSBSE 2024 - Challenge Track Winner
GreenStableYolo: Optimizing Inference Time and Image Quality of Text-to-Image Generation
Jingzhi Gong, Sisi Li, Giordano d’Aloisio, Zishuo Ding, Yulong Ye, William B. Langdon, and Federica Sarro
Paper
Conference
ICSE-SEIP 2024 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg
David Williams, James Callan, Serkan Kirbas, Sergey Mechtaev, Justyna Petke, Thomas Prideaux-Ghee, and Federica Sarro
Paper Award
Workshop
GI 2024 - Best Paper Award
Deep Mutations have Little Impact
Bill Langdon and David Clark
Paper
Conference
SANER 2024 - Best RENE Paper Award
On The Effectiveness of One-Class Support Vector Machine in Different Defect Prediction Scenarios
Rebecca Moussa, Danielle Azar, and Federica Sarro
Paper
2023
Conference
SSBSE 2023 - Challenge Track Winner
SearchGEM5: Towards Reliable Gem5 with Search Based Software Testing and Large Language Models
Aidan Dakhama, Karine Even-Mendoza, William B. Langdon, Héctor D. Menéndez, and Justyna Petke
Paper
Special
Lero
Lero Parnas Fellowship
Federica Sarro
Special
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ACM Distinguished Speaker
Federica Sarro
Journal
Automated Software Engineering Journal
Associate Editor of the Year 2022
Justyna Petke
2022
Workshop
GI 2022 - Best Paper Award
Evaluation of Genetic Improvement Tools for Improvement of Non-functional Properties of Software
Shengje Zuo, Aymeric Blot, and Justyna Petke
Paper Award
2021
Conference
SSBSE 2021 - Challenge Track Winner
Refining Fitness Functions for Search-Based Automated Program Repair: A Case Study with ARJA and ARJA-e
Giovani Guizzo, Aymeric Blot, James Callan, Justyna Petke and Federica Sarro
Paper Award
Conference
ICSE 2021 - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award
Artifact for Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection
Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, and Mark Harman
Paper Award
Special
ICSE 2021
2021 IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award
Excellence in Software Engineering research with scholarly and real-world impact.
Federica Sarro
Conference
ICSE 2021
Best Student Volunteer Award
Rebecca Moussa
2020
Conference
ASE 2020
Distinguished PC Member Award
Justyna Petke
Conference
ICSE 2020
ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award
Federica Sarro
2019
Conference
ICSE 2019
SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
Mark Harman
Special
IEEE Computer Society
2019 Harlan D. Mills Award
Fundamental contributions throughout software engineering, including seminal contributions in establishing search-based software engineering, reigniting research in slicing and testing, and founding genetic improvement.
Mark Harman
2018
Conference
ICSE 2018
ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award
Federica Sarro