Name:Chanchal K. Roy

Bio:

Chanchal K. Roy is Co-Director of Software Research Lab and Professor of Software Engineering/Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the lead of an NSERC CREATE graduate program on Software Analytics Research and a co-lead of the Data Management and Repository 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 170 refereed publications, with many of them in premier software engineering conferences and journals that have been cited more than 6,000 times. Dr. Roy works in the broad area of software engineering, with particular emphasis on software clone detection and management, software evolution and maintenance, empirical software engineering, recommender systems in software engineering, and big data analytics in software engineering. He received the most influential paper awards both at SANER 2018 and at ICPC 2018, the Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award by CS-Can/Info-Can in 2018, the New Researcher Award of University of Saskatchewan and the New Scientist Research Award of the College of Arts and Science of the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. He extensively serves in conference organizations and conference program committees and has been regular reviewers for many journals.

Country:Canada

Affiliation:University of Saskatchewan

Research interests:Code Clone Detection and Analysis, Software Evolution and Maintenance, Software Analytics Research, Empirical Software Engineering, Recommender Systems in Software Engineering