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Professor Social Software Engineering @TUe_MCS @TUeindhoven 🇳🇱. Diversity, inclusion and source code. 🇧🇪🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 🐕 He/him @aserebrenik @mastodon .social

Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
#myDay 1) a workshop paper acct'd w @Monika_iiitd 2) Tukaram Muske @TCS defended his PhD thesis 3) paper work w @EdnaDiasCanedo @rbonifacio123 @marciookimoto @gustavopinto acct'd @ESEM_conf 4) I became a full professor of social software engg @TUe_MCS @TUeindhoven #thankYou4All
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Honored to receive two distinguished paper awards: at @ICSEconf and @msrconf ! Thank you @sBr3ukelen @AE3nn @s_baltes @hamid_mohayeji @aagaronian @eleni_const and Nicola Zannone for the pleasure of working with you!
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Alexander Serebrenik
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On November 4, 2022 I will deliver my inaugural lecture "Social Software Engineering". You are welcome to join me at 4pm in de Blauwe Zaal of @TUeindhoven or online (the presentation will be recorded)
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Look what we got at @msrconf
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Alexander Serebrenik
2 years
Feeling honored and humbled by the amazing wave of appreciation received from the community on the occasion of my inaugural lecture! It was watched from Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands, Portugal, US… thank you so much dear colleagues!
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
I just heard that I won a distinguished reviewer award at @esecfse #FSE2020 Congratulations to @Venera_AP @denaefordrobin @thegordonfraser JoshuaGarcia MarkHarman @mendezfe SasaMisailovic LoriPollock @tan_hwei @patanamon @flyinghero
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
I am glad to announce that upon invitation of the general chair @ProfJohnGrundy I will join the @ICSEconf 2023 organizing committee as a Software Engineering in Society track co-chair. #icse2023
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
How much does a CS prof in Europe earn? Courtesy of @informatics_eu Gross salaries only, no tax/special bonuses
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A current list of SE conferences and journals
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Alexander Serebrenik
1 year
PhD in Computer Science doesn’t limit your career options to academia. @lynda_hardman and Hanna Schraffenberger have collected 21 stories of women having a PhD degree and shining in the industry. Contact @lynda_hardman if you would like to get a copy of this booklet.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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I have received the following mail from a former student. #gender #inclusivelanguage #alrightgentlemen
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
My first attempt at #meme making. #2IMP40 is pushing me to explore new directions. #AcademicTwitter
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Now it really feels that I am in Australia...
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Alexander Serebrenik
5 years
Wouldn't it be nice if @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM removed the paywall in the times of the #COVID ー19 crisis to support students and researchers working from home without access to university networks? If @pornhub_premium has been made available to all, should not science be too?
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Our paper Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Project won the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at #ICSME2020 ! @IEEEICSME Congrats to my amazing co-authors @mairieli @IgorWiese @igorsteinmacher @gerosa_marco . Preprint Summary ⬇️
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Alexander Serebrenik
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#preprint Effects of Adopting Code Review Bots on Pull Requests to OSS Projects by @mairieli yt @IgorWiese @igorsteinmacher @gerosa_marco at @IEEEICSME Code review bots ⬆️ # merged PRs, ⬇️ # non-merged PRs, and ⬇️ communication among developers.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Thank you @CoolSWEng @gousiosg and the entire @esecfse team! Special thanks to @shbonita - it has been a pleasure to be a D&I co-chair together with you.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Genuinely proud to win this award at #icse19 . Congratulations to my amazing coauthors ⁦ @sophiehsqq ⁩ ⁦ @b_vasilescu ⁩ AlexanderNolte AnitaBrown. To be presented on Friday 11am in Viger. Congratulations to all the winners!!!
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
Dear colleagues please do not decline review requests for *revisions* authors have carried out to address *your* comments! The submission ID tends to have R1, R2, ... at the end. It is not easy to replace you. #editorialfrustrations
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Great news from ⁦ @SANERconf ⁩ in China! Together with ⁦ @felipe_fifo ⁩ ⁦ @fernandocastor ⁩ and ⁦ @NicoleNovielli ⁩ we have won a #saner19 distinguished paper #award for our work on confusion in code reviews. #preprint @TUe_MCS
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Alexander Serebrenik
5 years
At @Benevol2019 @grammarware talks about #cobol : official count 220bln LOC but it likely to be an underestimation.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Proud and honoured to receive the @JSSoftware best reviewer award certificate for 2019. Thank you @PAvgeriou and @davidcshepherd !
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Just received today this lovely certificate. Thank you @TheOfficialACM @jenspalsberg and @gabikotsis ! This work would not have been possible without @asarma @fabiopalomba3 and the entire team!
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Alexander Serebrenik
1 year
A PhD student has asked me about the use of ChatGPT to rephrase the text they have written. Here is the @TheOfficialACM policy on this matter.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Today I got promoted to the Senior Associate Editor of @JSSoftware . Thank you @PAvgeriou and @davidcshepherd , it is an honor to support the community,
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Today I am going to give the first lecture of my new course on applications of data science to software engineering. Excited and scared 😄 #2IMP40
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Alexander Serebrenik
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From @ICSEconf Town hall: "All content of #icse2021 will be uploaded to @YouTube in less than a month" #icse21 #goodNews
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Alexander Serebrenik
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On Friday Nov 4 I am going to give the inaugural lecture on how can we make the "society of software developers" more inclusive. You are welcome to join the stream on YouTube or come to Eindhoven. We start at 4pm CET.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It is a great honor to receive a distinguished reviewer award at @ICSEconf #icse2024 and share the stage with many researchers whose work I truly appreciate and admire.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Just won the distinguished reviewer award at @ICPCConf2018 #award Congratulations also to @LeonMoonen !
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
I have published on code smells and community smells but...
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Alexander Serebrenik
1 year
Congratulations to everyone whose @ICSEconf got accepted! For me this was 0/2 this year. Hopefully we will do better next time :)
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It is a pleasure to serve the software engineering community!
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ICSE'24 Distinguished Reviewers are now listed on our website: ICSE couldn't happen without the fantastic work of our reviewers, and we want to highlight the best reviewers!
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Great news! @NWONieuws has decided to fund our project: "A new era of room #acoustics simulation software: from academic advances to a sustainable #opensource project and community." @maartenhornikx in charge of the acoustics part and we will be supporting the OSS community.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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A cool list of resources for PhD students in empirical software engineering compled by @gunnarku :
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Alexander Serebrenik
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I am glad to announce that as of Oct 1, 2020 I will join the National advice committee on diversity in higher education and research chaired by @vinsub . Looking forward to working together w @DomenicaGhideiB @JudiMesman @mclvdbrink @DenktasSemiha and more Twitter-less colleagues.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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The number of Computer Science publications per year. Source @dblp_org
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
Good news from @emsejournal : starting from 2021 EMSE moves to immediate publishing, "meaning that accepted articles will be published in a Volume and Issue immediately following typesetting".
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Alexander Serebrenik
1 year
I am trying to compile a list of SE conferences and journals - what did I miss?
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Amazing news from @ICSEconf : "'STILL AROUND': Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers" by @sBr3ukelen @AE3nn @s_baltes yt has been awarded with an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. Preprint
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
Last reviews of 2021 submitted. This year I have reviewed 13 journal submissions + 11 journal revisions, 49 conference submissions and 13 workshop submissions. I have also declined 32 invitations.
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
Last week we have been asked to come up with a single slide summarising our research: here is what @felipe_fifo @eleni_const and myself came up with. #research
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Speechless: just won a distinguished paper award at #icse17 for our work on reflection and program analysis @DavyLandman @jurgenvinju
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Alexander Serebrenik
5 years
Great news! In 2021 I will act as the general chair of #icpc2021 with @anitasarma4 and @fabiopalomba3 acting as the program chairs of the main track! Stay tuned for more news @icpcconf
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Alexander Serebrenik
7 months
Highlight of the day: the Pig cafe at Kamakura with @TaliaRinger and @rrobbes
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Talia Ringer 🟣 🎗️
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Yeah I went to a pig cafe with @aserebrenik
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Alexander Serebrenik
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I am very excited to announce that upon invitation of @fernandocastor and @TayanaConte I will give a keynote talk at 34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2020), part of @cbsoftnatal
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Great news! @IEEESoftware September/October 2019 issue on #Sentiment and #Emotion in Software Engineering, co-edited by @NicoleNovielli and yt, has won the 2020 @foliomag : Eddie & Ozzie Award in the Digital Edition - Association/Nonprofit category
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Our ( @DanaHDamian @KellyBlincoe @denaefordrobin yt Zainab Masood) edited book on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Software Engineering is available for pre-order on Amazon. We are working towards making it open access.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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I am very glad to join the Editorial Board of @ieeetse . Thank you @seba_uchitel for inviting me.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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And even more good news from @ICSEconf : “STILL AROUND”: Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers by @sBr3ukelen @AE3nn @s_baltes and yt is also accepted. This is an amazing achievement of @sBr3ukelen who has recently graduated from @TUe_MCS !
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It is a great pleasure for me to accept the invitation of @davidlo2015 and Corina Pasareanu to act as the Area Chair in the area of "Human and Social Aspects'' of @ICSEconf 2025.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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“The real scaling problem is scaling people, culture and teams” — @mauricioaniche from @Adyen at #SENSymposium .
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Dear colleagues, please update your CVs and websites with committees, projects, teaching, outreach etc. I can find your publications on #DBLP or #Scholar but more of your work remains hidden :( Your friendly letter writer.
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
My @esecfse distinguished reviewer award just arrived. Thank you @myra_cohen @tomzimmermann and @devanbu ! It has been a pleasure.
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
Salaries of CS PhD students and postdocs in Europe. Courtesy @informatics_eu
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Alexander Serebrenik
6 years
Honored to having won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Reviewer Award ICSE 2018 #icse18 #icse2018
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
I am very glad to announce that in 2022 together with @CecilePeraire I will co-chair the Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) track of @ICSEconf .
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Hi empirical software engineering researchers, a student from @TUe_MCS got you all: how could you call yourselves "computer science researchers"? Anyone with junior high school knowledge can do it. And psychologists are better than you anyway. #StudentEvaluationOfTeaching
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Alexander Serebrenik
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There is still hope for us!
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Alexander Serebrenik
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A very proud teacher :) Thank you @NathanCassee for working with me on this course.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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PhD student at #msr19 #msr2019 : can you summarize in one word what do you need to be a successful researcher? Prof @katsuroinoue , winner of the foundational award: luck. #academiclife #bonmot
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Me, myself and I
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Dear Reviewer 2! If my proposal plans to do X, please do not tell me that to do Y - not that I don't like Y, but such a comment reduces the likelihood of getting funding so I might end up not doing either X or Y. Feel free to send me 250K eur and we can discuss doing Y together
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Alexander Serebrenik
2 years
Good news! 4TU has decided to fund our project “Building community of LGBTIQ+ ICT researchers”. More things to come!
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It is great to serve such a welcoming community as @ieeescam : in 2021 I will have the honour of being the general chair of #scam2021 !
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Alexander Serebrenik
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After a couple of weeks of holidays/working from home I got today to the office and look what I have found in my mailbox! Thank you @davidlo2015 @shane_mcintosh @NicoleNovielli ! It was fun to serve the @msrconf community.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Great news: this year @ICSEconf SEIS has received 59 submissions. #icse2023
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
European and national funding agencies should acknowledge the importance of software for society and the need for increased funding of software research. Read Sign #EuropeNeedsSoftwareResearch #FundSofwareResearchEU @VERSEN_NL RT=❤️
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Great news! Thank you dear colleagues and congratulations to the co-winners @pinzger and @spanichella #saner18
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Alexander Serebrenik
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The theme issue of @ieeesoftware on #sentiment and #emotion in #softwareengineering co-edited by @NicoleNovielli and yt has been published! We have six great articles waiting to be read :) #happy
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
It is always a pleasure to support the SE community. Thank you #ASE2020 !
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
It has been a great pleasure for me to be the general chair of @icpcconf this year. Thank you @UniqueThor for the certificate, thank you @fabiopalomba3 @anitasarma4 for co-leading this effort, and thank you to the entire team for being awesome! (sorry I can only tag up to 10 ppl)
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Transgender people have been part of the computing world from the very early days. In this thread I will briefly talk about some of them.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Glad to join the @ICSEconf #icse2021 team as an equity, diversity and inclusion co-chair. Together with @JoAtlee we will work on making ICSE 2021 welcoming for all the participants.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It feels odd not to need a passport to go to @ICSEconf
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Alexander Serebrenik
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On March 30 I will give a talk on "Gender in Open-Source Software Development" as part of the @sigsoft webinar series. Register: Special thanks to @Venera_AP for inviting me and @anitasarma4 for moderating the session.
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Alexander Serebrenik
3 years
In 2015-2020 I have served on 85 program committees of different conferences, tracks and workshops. #academicReporting
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Honoured to receive the @emsejournal distinguished reviewer award! Thank you @drfeldt and @tomzimmermann ! Congratulations to my fellow award winner @fabiopalomba3 !
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Hei Ho! For the first time in #Groningen upon invitation of ⁦ @PAvgeriou ⁩ and ⁦ @Ayushi_Rastogi ⁩! Joining the PhD committee of ⁦ @gunnarku ⁩ later on today.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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It is a great pleasure for me to announce that I will act as the Journal First co-chair of @ESEM_conf 2023. Thank you @MaleknazNayebi and @SoftEngResGrp for inviting me.
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Are you interested in societal aspects of software engineering? Please check the list of accepted papers at @ICSEconf SEIS 2023: The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics: from #gender and #LGBTIQ to #tax and #ethics , and from #civictechs to #hackathons
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I've got an Outstanding reviewer certificate from @JSSoftware !
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Good news! Our @emsejournal paper "How Bugs Are Born: A Model to Identify How Bugs Are Introduced in Software Components" co-authored by @Gerope90 @gregoriorobles yt @azaidman Daniel German @jgbarah is accepted for presentation at @ICSEconf Journal First track. #J1C2 #icse2020
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Alexander Serebrenik
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First time for me: two articles in the same issue of @emsejournal I ❤️ 24(3). (1) Community patterns @maelstromdat @fabiopalomba3 @azaidman (2) large corpus of OCL expressions @lordphnx @jeroennoten Both are open access; preprints
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Lovely news from @ICSEconf SEIS: "Understanding Community Smells Variability: A Statistical Approach" by @g_catolino @fabiopalomba3 @maelstromdat yt has been accepted for publication. Special thanks for highly personalised notification :)
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Alexander Serebrenik
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At @sattose2023 @Mark_Harman reveals that he has almost failed his PhD from a low-ranked university, and slowly build up his career by moving from university to university, creating a company based on his research and being acquired by @meta .
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Alexander Serebrenik
4 years
I am reading a very nice PhD thesis... but 399 pages?!
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Alexander Serebrenik
6 months
Thank you @CoolSWEng @eleni_const @sback_ and the entire @msrconf community! It has been a pleasure to serve you.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the women with whom I had the privilege of working, who have mentored me, or whom I had the opportunity to mentor. Thank you so much! I have learned a lot from you.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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The @TUeindhoven software engineering delegation at @ICSEconf : @NathanCassee @rsatrioadi honorary Eindhoven member @b_vasilescu yt @lina_8a and @LFPaganini !
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Alexander Serebrenik
2 years
An important ingredient for success of a software engineering workshop. #packing
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Alexander Serebrenik
1 year
Nice news! Our book "Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering" is planned to be published by December 21, 2023; editors @DanaHDamian @denaefordrobin @KellyBlincoe Zainab Masood and yt.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Look at the amazing program committee of @ICSEconf SEET 2022! @DrCecilePeraire and I are looking forward to working with you!
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Today a student brought me cake for helping them to get an internship at a company. Unfortunately, the internship didn't get through despite my best efforts; still the student was very grateful and thanked me with a cake. #joysOfCake #studentsAreGreat
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Accepted at @msrconf “Exploring the Effect of Multiple Natural Languages on Code Suggestion Using GitHub Copilot” by Kei Koyanagi @dong_w11 Kotaro Noguchi @masanari_kondo yt @yasutaka_kamei @ubayashi Tasks in Chinese are answered worse than in English and Japanese.
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Alexander Serebrenik
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Amazing news from @ICSEconf #SEIP : "An interview study of how developers use execution logs in embedded software engineering" by @nanyang93 Pieter Cuijpers, Ramon Schiffelers, Johan Lukkien yt has been accepted! This work was done in collaboration w @ASMLcompany 1/...
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