ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
Wed 25 Jun 2025 11:15 - 12:00 at Andromeda - Doctoral Symposium

This talk will briefly recap the slides presented at the FSE keynote talk about Mark’s previous work in academia and industry. The aim is not to bore students with a repeated talk, but simply to (briefly!) set the context for those who may have missed the FSE keynote. The intention is for Mark to get as quickly as possible to the Q&A part of the talk so that students can ask questions.

Mark Harman is a full-time Research Scientist at Meta Platforms in the Instagram Product Performance team, working on software, engineering automation. He was previously in the Simulation-Based Testing (SBT) team at Meta, which he co-founded. The SBT team developed and deployed both the Sapienz and WW platforms for client- and server- side testing. Sapienz grew out of Majicke (a start up Mark co-founded) that was acquired by Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in 2017. Prior to working at Meta Platforms, Mark was head of Software Engineering at UCL and director of its CREST centre, where he remains a part time professor. In his more purely scientific work, he co-founded the field Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) in 2001. He received the IEEE Harlan Mills Award and the ACM Outstanding Research Award in 2019 for his work, and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Wed 25 Jun

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11:00 - 12:30
Doctoral SymposiumDoctoral Symposium at Andromeda
11:00
15m
Day opening
Opening Remarks
Doctoral Symposium
C: Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, C: Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, C: Jie M. Zhang King's College London, C: Federica Sarro University College London
11:15
45m
Keynote
Research and Impact in Academia and Industry
Doctoral Symposium
Mark Harman Meta Platforms, Inc. and UCL
12:00
15m
Talk
Job Talk #1: Search-based Software Testing Driven by Domain Knowledge
Doctoral Symposium
A: Federico Formica McMaster University
12:15
15m
Talk
Job Talk #2: Regression Fault Detection and Mitigation in the Evolution of Deep Learning Systems
Doctoral Symposium
A: Hanmo You Tianjin University

Information for Participants
Wed 25 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:30 at Andromeda - Doctoral Symposium
Info for room Andromeda:

Andromeda is located close to the restaurant and the bar, at the end of the corridor on the side of the bar.

From the registration desk, go towards the restaurant, turn left towards the bar, walk until the end of the corridor.