Software Research Lab - USASK

🌟 Celebrating the Women of SRLab and iSE Lab 🌟

Today, we celebrate the remarkable women researchers and scholars of SRLab and iSE Lab, whose dedication, creativity, and leadership continue to advance impactful research in software engineering, AI-assisted development, and empirical studies of developer practices.

From advancing empirical studies to exploring the human-centered aspects of software engineering, the women of both labs are making meaningful contributions that strengthen our research community and the broader field.

We especially recognize the leadership of Dr. Banani Roy, Director of iSE Lab, Co-Director of SRLab, and Co-Director of the SOAR Program, whose vision, mentorship, and commitment to inclusive research have helped shape a vibrant and collaborative research environment. Through her guidance, the labs continue to advance cutting-edge research while nurturing the next generation of scholars. As Co-Director of SOAR, she oversees and supports a diverse community of students, including many women researchers. Beyond her academic leadership, Dr. Roy is deeply committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes student mental and physical well-being, inclusivity, and mutual support within the lab community.

The women of SRLab and iSE Lab exemplify how diverse perspectives and compassionate leadership drive innovation, collaboration, and meaningful progress in research.

👏 We celebrate their achievements and thank them for the inspiration they bring to our labs and the broader software engineering community.

Join us on December 11 for an ACM SIGSOFT webinar exploring how Bangladeshi graduate talent and LLM-driven methods are shaping global software engineering research. Dr. Chanchal Roy will share insights, examples, and lessons on building sustainable international research pipelines.

Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM CST / 9:30 PM Bangladesh
Register: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Apx__EfzryU8Lgn8CsKz-18T4eqvN-0aKwALxAa7AuEKp-Vm_6MI~Ak2-drw87ElYDwCHhZE8T246soyEDCL_aB6V_aXdYK2zaV26w8SvAI2KPQ

A great opportunity for students, researchers, and anyone interested in collaboration and emerging talent in software engineering.

Learn more about our lab: SRlab.usask.ca
Learn more about Prof Chanchal Roy: clones.usask.ca

A collaborative research work between SRLab USASK and the Federal University of Uberlândia has been featured in Stack Overflow blogs.

CROKAGE – the Crowd Knowledge Answer Generator takes the description of a programming task as a query and then provides relevant, comprehensive programming solutions containing both code snippets and their succinct explanations.

Congratulations to Rodrigo Fernandes(visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Uberlândia), Masud Rahman (PhD candidate from SRLab USASK) and Dr. Chanchal Roy for your success in collaboration research.

CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow Blog One of the most powerful attributes of Stack Overflow (SO) is the accumulation of developers’ knowledge over time. Community members have contributed more than 18 million questions and 27 million answers. When a developer is stuck on a coding problem, they search through this vast trove of informa...

We are very happy to share that Dr. Chanchal Roy is co-leading the P2IRC (https://p2irc.usask.ca/) Data Management and Repository project (over a million with matching fund) effective immediately. With this he is looking for a number of PhD students and a couple of Big Data Management Specialists/Managers. He will provide competitive salaries for the staff positions. He thanked to Dr. Banani Roy (and her students) for their hard work and leadership in the P2IRC Big Data Cloud project (Phase I). Their expertise and findings from Phase I will be crucial in this project too (Phase II). Anyone interested please feel free to contact at [email protected] or at [email protected].

Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - U of S Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - University of Saskatchewan P2IRC is a digital agriculture research centre funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, managed by the Global Institute for Food Security, and located at the University of Saskatchewan. Research themes include Phenometrics, Image Acquisition Technologies, Computational Informatics of Cro...

The remarkable moment when Dr. Chanchal Roy was receiving the CS-Can/Info-Can outstanding young computer science researcher award!

It is the week of 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). This Year ICSE is organized at the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada. From SRLab-USASK, the participants at ICSE and its co-hosted conferences are:
1. Masud Rahman (Doctoral Symposium)
2. Saikat Mondal (MSR)
3. Rodrigo Fernandes (ICPC)

We wish them the best of luck and hope they will strengthen the bridge between SRLab-USASK with SE research community.

MSR 2019 on Twitter “Welcome to , Saikat Mondal (U Saskatchewan)! Saikat studies Q&A on Stack Overflow, finding that questions with reproducible issues have at least three times higher chance of receiving an accepted answer than those with irreproducible issues. ”

Congratulations! to Mashrafi Iqra.

We are pleased to share a piece of great news with everyone that Mashrafi got a 16-month Internship at as a Software Developer Intern from May 2019. In this event, he thanked Dr. Chanchal Roy for giving him the opportunity to work as a Summer Research student with University of Saskatchewan Summer Research Award under Dr. Roy's close supervision last summer. He also praised Golam Mostaeen and Rayhaan Ferdous, Graduate Researchers of SR Lab, for guiding him while he was working in the lab last Summer.

We wish him good luck.

Congratulations! to Golam Mostaeen, Dr. Banani Roy, Dr. Chanchal Roy, and Dr. Kevin Schneider for the acceptance of their paper, "Designing for Real-Time Groupware Systems to Support Complex Scientific Data Analysis" in (EICS 2019).

2019 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques, and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems.



Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMSs) has gained much popularity in recent years in accelerating the specification, ex*****on, visualization, and monitoring of data-intensive tasks. Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, no existing SWfMSs directly support collaboration. Data is increasing in complexity, dimensionality, and volume, and the efficient analysis of the data often goes beyond the realm of an individual and requires collaboration with multiple researchers from varying domains. In this paper, the authors propose a groupware system architecture for data analysis that in addition to supporting collaboration, also incorporates features from SWfMSs to support modern data analysis processes. As a proof of concept of the proposed architecture, they develop and present SciWorCS - a groupware system for scientific data analysis. Authors present several real-world use-cases including collaborative software repository analysis and bioinformatics data analysis. The experiments evaluating the proposed system shows promising results. Their user study in the domain of bio-informatics shows that SCiWorCS can leverage real-world data analysis tasks by supporting real-time collaboration among users.

The poor clone guy, who is even confused with the clones of himself! Yes, he is one of the top clone researchers and mentor of Sofware Research Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Chanchal Roy.

Dr. Roy was presented with a 2019 New Researcher Award from the University of Saskatchewan (USASK) on May 3, 2019. This is the fifth major recognition within a year!

He is very humbled and thankful to receive the USask New Researcher Award: the university's top honor for faculty researchers early in their careers. He thanked all of his hardworking students, beloved family members and friends, international peers, nominators and referees, and also his colleagues so very much.

We congratulate him and wish his grand success in the future!

The clone detector Award-winning USask researcher fights software bugs at the source

Tune into CFCR 90.5 FM this Sunday at 8am and learn more about the journey and achievements of Dr. Chanchal Roy. You can also listen live on the website Cfcr.ca

Time to announce our next guest speaker 🎉
This Sunday morning we will have with us Chanchal K. Roy!!! Chanchal Roy is Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.
He is the co-lead of the Big Data Analytics group of an NSERC Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) on Food security. As the co-author of the widely used NICAD code clone detection system, he has published more than 150 refereed publications that have been cited more than 4,700 times with h-index of 31 and i10-idex of 75.
His contributions to the software maintenance community, and particularly to the software clones community, have been highly influential, recently winning Most Influential Paper awards at both SANER 2018 and ICPC 2018.
Recently, he has been recognized with the New Scientist Research Award of the College of Arts and Science of the University of Saskatchewan. He is one of three Canadian computer scientists honoured with a prestigious award for young researchers, a 2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award by CS-Can/Info-Can, a national, non-profit society dedicated to representing all aspects of computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada. He is also going to receive the 2019 New Researcher Award of the University of Saskatchewan, a competition among all the young researchers of the University regardless of their Departments/Colleges. Dr. Roy was a vision keynote speaker at WCRE/CSMR 2014 on software clones, and a keynote/invited speaker at both IWSC 2018 and IEEE R10HTC 2018. He serves widely on the program committees of major software engineering conferences such as ICSE, ICSME, SANER, MSR, ICPC and SCAM, and has been regular reviewers of the major journals in Software Engineering. He served (has been serving) as chairs in most of the conferences of his area including General Chair for ICPC 2014, SCAM 2019, IWSC 2015 and Program Co-chairs for ICPC 2018. Dr. Roy works in the broad area of software engineering, with particular emphasis on software evolution and maintenance, recommender systems in software engineering, automated software debugging, and big data analytics in software engineering.
Tune into CFCR 90.5 FM this Sunday at 8am and learn more about his journey and achievements.
You can also listen live on our website Cfcr.ca

A big congratulation to Dr. Banani Roy for joining as an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Roy works in the Cloud-based Big Data Analytics for Crop Phenomics project (a.k.a P2IRC Project 3.1, a USASK CFREF funded project) where she leads on developing cloud-based collaborative frameworks and APIs for efficiently handling large sets of plant phenotyping and software related data. Moreover, she is also a part of the Global Water Futures Core Computer Science Team, a second USASK CFREF funded project, where she plays a key role in migrating a legacy water security modeling system into a modern programming language and software engineering environment with a focus on a cloud-based architecture.

While working in these projects as a significant member of SRLab, Dr. Roy supervised undergraduate, summer, graduate and post-doctoral fellows. Some of her notable students are Golam Mostaeen who won Best Grad Student Award in M.Sc. within the Computer Science Department in 2018, Paromita Sengupta who got the summer job offer in the position of Controls and Instrumentation Developer at the Canadian Light Source and Debashish Chakroborti who awarded the 2019 SK Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship for his Ph.D. study.

From SRLab family, we wish her all the best for the new prosperous journey with us.

New Faculty Welcome: Dr. Banani Roy - Department of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Banani Roy.