Awards
The following papers are the recipients of the SANER 2026 Disinguished Paper awards for the Research Track:
- Lev Sorokin, Ivan Vasilev, Ken Friedl, Andrea Stocco for the paper “STELLAR: A Search-Based Testing Framework for Large Language Model Applications:
- Amit Kumar, Ethari Hrishikesh, Sonali Agarwal for the paper “Leveraging Commit-Size Context and Hyper Co-Change Graph Centralities for Defect Prediction"
- Chunguang Zhang, Bixin Li, Yan Xiao for the paper “Beyond Lexical: Functional Semantics and Fusion for Precise Architecture Recovery"
- Yuqing Niu, Jieke Shi, Rundong Han, Ye Liu, Chengyan Ma, Yunbo Lyu, David Lo for the paper “What You Trust Is Insecure: Demystifying How Developers (Mis)Use Trusted Execution Environments in Practice"
Moreover, the following PC members of the Research Track are awarded with the best reviewer award:
Fabio Palomba, University of Salerno
Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute Tibor Gyimothy, University of Szeged Mathieu Nassif, University of Canterbury Lyuye Zhang, Nanyang Technological University Fatima Sabir, University of the Punjab Klara Borowa, Politechnika Warszawska
The Most Influential Paper (MIP) award of this year goes to the following paper from SANER 2016:
"Examining the Impact of Self-admitted Technical Debt on Software Quality”, that was co-authored by Sultan Wehaibi, Concordia University Emad Shihab, Concordia University Latifa Guerrouj, ETS Montreal