Each year at ICSE, we celebrate our community by recognizing noteworthy work and accomplishments. The following awards will be presented at ICSE 2026.
Impact Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
Tao Xie (Peking University / Fudan University)
For outstanding research contributions on software testing and software analytics that have broadly impacted industrial practices.
IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
Most Influential Paper from ICSE 2016 — ICSE-10 MIP
Song Wang (York University), Taiyue Liu (University of Waterloo), Lin Tan (Purdue University)
Automatically Learning Semantic Features for Defect Prediction
Most Influential Industry Paper Award — ICSE SEIP 2016
Qingwei Lin (Microsoft), Hongyu Zhang (Chongqing University), Jian-Guang Lou (Microsoft Research), Yu Zhang (Microsoft), Xuewei Chen (Microsoft Research) Log Clustering Based Problem Identification for Online Service Systems
Software Engineering in Practice Retrospective Awards (ICSE 2005–2015)
| Year | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Stefan Berner, Roland Weber, Rudolf K. Keller | Observations and Lessons Learned from Automated Testing |
| 2006 | Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine | Maintaining Mental Models: A Study of Developer Work Habits |
| 2006 | Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Andreas Zeller | Mining Metrics to Predict Component Failures |
| 2007 | Jeffrey C. Carver, Richard P. Kendall, Susan E. Squires, Douglass E. Post | Software Development Environments for Scientific and Engineering Software: A Series of Case Studies |
| 2008 | Florian Deissenboeck, Benjamin Hummel, Elmar Jürgens, Bernhard Schätz, Stefan Wagner, Jean-Francois Girard, Stefan Teuchert | Clone Detection in Automotive Model-Based Development |
| 2011 | John Edward Hutchinson, Mark Rouncefield, Jon Whittle | Model-Driven Engineering Practices in Industry |
| 2012 | Yingnong Dang, Rongxin Wu, Hongyu Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Peter Nobel | ReBucket: A Method for Clustering Duplicate Crash Reports Based on Call Stack Similarity |
| 2013 | Vipin Balachandran | Reducing Human Effort and Improving Quality in Peer Code Reviews Using Automatic Static Analysis and Reviewer Recommendation |
| 2014 | Qiang Fu, Jieming Zhu, Wenlu Hu, Jian-Guang Lou, Rui Ding, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Tao Xie | Where Do Developers Log? An Empirical Study on Logging Practices in Industry |
| 2015 | Ming Tan, Lin Tan, Sashank Dara, Caleb Mayeux | Online Defect Prediction for Imbalanced Data |
Best Paper Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
ACM SIGSOFT 2026 Distinguished Artifact Awards
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| TypeCare: Boosting Python Type Inference Models via Context-Aware Re-Ranking and Augmentation | Wonseok Oh (Korea University), Hakjoo Oh (Korea University) |
| An Eye for AI: Eye-Tracking the Micro-Interruptions of GenAI Code Suggestions | Tarek Alakmeh (University of Zurich), Sarah D’Angelo (Google), Thomas Fritz (University of Zurich) |
SEIP 2026 Distinguished Paper Awards
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Technical Credit: Industry Views on Benefits and Barriers | Alessio Bucaioni (Mälardalen University), Ian Gorton (Northeastern University), Patrizio Pelliccione (Gran Sasso Science Institute) |
| TerraFormer: Automated Infrastructure-as-Code with LLMs Fine-Tuned via Policy-Guided Verifier Feedback | Prithwish Jana (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sam Davidson (Amazon Web Services), Bhavana Bhasker (Amazon Web Services), Andrey Kan (Amazon Web Services), Anoop Deoras (Amazon Web Services), Laurent Callot (Amazon Web Services) |
| Automated Software Test Generation at Industry Scale Using a Multi-Agent Architecture and Workflow Integration | Matas Rastenis (Uber Technologies Inc.), Ben Chou (Uber Technologies Inc.), Shauvik Roy Choudhary (Uber Technologies Inc.), René Just (University of Washington) |
SEET 2026 Distinguished Paper Award
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Beyond the Prompt: How Novices Engage with AI During Code Summarization | Suad Mohamed (Belmont University), Abdullah Parvin (Belmont University), Najma Ismail (Belmont University), Kimberly Amaya (Belmont University), Esteban Parra Rodriguez (Belmont University), Michael (Oliver) |
| Lessons Learned from Training the Next Generation of Space Software Engineers | Martina De Sanctis (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Francesco Basciani (Gran Sasso Science Institute - GSSI, Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Amleto Di Salle (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Martina Feliciani (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Patrizio Pelliccione (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Franco Raimondi (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech), Davide Zaminga (Fondazione Gran Sasso Tech) |
| From Struggle to Success: Unveiling Students’ Emotional Journeys during Capstone Projects | Wardah Naeem Awan (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology Lahti, Finland), Maria Paasivaara (LUT University), Peter A. Gloor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology SDM) |
SEIS 2026 Distinguished Paper Award
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Connecting Generations Through Code: GABI, A Community-Driven Framework for Engineering Inclusive Financial Software for the Elderly | Lara Lima (Federal University of Ceará (UFC)), Victor Alves (Federal University of Ceará (UFC)), Carla Bezerra (Federal University of Ceará (UFC)), Diana Braga (Federal University of Ceará (UFC)) |
NIER 2026 Distinguished Paper Award
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Reading Between the Lines: Scalable User Feedback via Implicit Sentiment in Developer Prompts | Daye Nam (UCI), Malgorzata Salawa (Google), Satish Chandra (Meta) |
| Model Discovery and Graph Simulation: A Lightweight Gateway to Chaos Engineering | Anatoly Krasnovsky |
Industry Challenge Track 2026 Distinguished Paper Award
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| LLM-Based Test Case Generation in DBMS through Monte Carlo Tree Search | Yujia Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), Yingli Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Fangyuan Zhang (Huawei Hong Kong Research Center), Cuiyun Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) |
ACM SIGSOFT Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
Jacek Śliwerski, Thomas Zimmermann, and Andreas Zeller
When do changes induce fixes? (MSR 2005)
“For introducing the SZZ algorithm, a foundational technique that enabled a new generation of empirical studies, tools, and techniques for understanding and improving software quality.”
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
Thomas Zimmermann (University of California, Irvine)
For outstanding and transformative service to the software engineering community by broadening participation and championing open science and open access.
ACM SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award
Federico Formica (McMaster University)
ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award
- Eunsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University), for contributions to improving the safety and robustness of software and AI-enabled systems, through software design, formal methods, and self-adaptation.
- Sen Chen (Nankai University), for outstanding contributions to advancing software supply chain security through pioneering techniques and tools in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST).
ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
Daniela Damian (University of Victoria)
For pioneering and sustaining innovative approaches to experiential learning, collaborative and inclusive software engineering education across time zones, cultural boundaries, and diverse perspectives.
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
Tao Xie (Peking University / Fudan University)
For outstanding research contributions on software testing and software analytics that have broadly impacted industrial practices.
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Zhou Yang, Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code
Advisor / Nominator: David Lo
SIGSOFT ACM Fellows — 2025
- Denys Poshyvanik (College of William and Mary)
- Natarajan Shankar (SRI)
- Alex Orso (University of Georgia)
- Neno Medvedovic (USC)
- Peter Müller (ETH Zurich)
- Javier Esparza (Technical University of Munich)
- Swarat Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin and Google DeepMind)
- Sven Apel (Saarland University)
- Madanlal Musuvathi (Microsoft)
SIGSOFT ACM Distinguished Members — 2025
- Weiyi Shang
- Marcel Boehme
- Reid Holmes
- Shuvendu Kumar Lahiri
- Alexandra Meliou
IEEE Technical Community on Software Engineering Awards
TCSE Distinguished Service Award
Nenad Medvidović (University of Southern California)
TCSE B. Bühnová Distinguished Leadership Award
Dongmei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)
TCSE Rising Star Award
- Cuiyun Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology)
- Denae Ford Robinson (Microsoft Corp)
TCSE New Directions Award
Miryung Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
TCSE Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeff Kramer (Imperial College London)
TCSE IEEE CS Fellows — 2026
- Dan Hao, for contributions to software testing and debugging
- Rick Kazman, for contributions to the disciplines of software architecture and technical debt
- Martin Monperrus, for pioneering machine learning use in code assistance and program repair, impacting millions of developers
- Tien Nguyen, for contributions to synergizing program analysis and artificial intelligence for effective automated software engineering
- Jianwei Niu, for contributions to security, perception, and communication for mobile computing
- Lin Tan, for contributions to software text analytics, software-AI synergy, and software reliability
- Andreas Zeller, for contributions to analyzing software and its development process
- Hongyu Zhang, for contributions to intelligent software development and fault management
- Wei Zhang, for contributions to agile design flow for FPGA and software-hardware co-design for embedded system security
Other Awards
Distinguished Reviewers Awards
ICSE Research Track
- Alexander Serebrenik
- Andrea Stocco
- Austin Mordahl
- Ayushi Rastogi
- Ben Hermann
- Davi Viana
- Daye Nam
- Fernando Castor
- Filipe Cogo
- Grace Lewis
- Heng Li
- Ivan Beschastnikh
- James Davis
- Justus Bogner
- Leopoldo Teixeira
- Manuel Rigger
- Maria Kechagia
- Max Hort
- Rahul Yedida
- Reyhan Jabbarvand
- Ripon Saha
- Romain Robbes
- Ronnie de Souza Santos
- Silvia Abrahão
- Steven Arzt
- Sungmin Kang
- Thomas Gilray
- Tianyi Zhang
- Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen
- Zhenchang Xing
ICSE SEIP
- Awdren de Lima Fontao
- Ridwan Shariffdeen
- Sigma Jahan
- Arik Friedman
- Gunnar Kudrjavets
ICSE SEIS
- Mairieli Wessel
- Ronnie de Souza Santos
- Matteo Vaccargiu
ICSE SEET
- Wesley Assunção
- Andreea Vescan
- Kiev Gama
- Stan Kurkovsky
- Janet Siegmund
- Cristina Seceleanu
- Anna Beatriz Marques
- Julian Frattini
Artifact Evaluation
- Daniel Coutinho
- Giovanna Broccia
- Caio Barbosa Vieira da Silva
- Juri Di Rocco
- Sumeet Singh Arora
- Manouchehr Zadahmad Jafarlou
- Haoxiang Tian
- Yuxin Qiu
- Kazumasa Shimari
- Anderson Uchôa
ACM Student Research Competition
- Luciano Marchezan
- Hareem Sahar
- Leuson Da Silva