conf.researchr.org / Federica Sarro
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Name:Federica Sarro
Bio:
Federica Sarro is a Full Professor of Software engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University College London.
She leads the SOLAR (Software Optimisation, Learning and Analytics Research) research group https://solar.cs.ucl.ac.uk.
Country:United Kingdom
Affiliation:University College London
Personal website: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/F.Sarro/
X (Twitter): https://x.com/f_sarro
GitHub: https://github.com/fedsar
Research interests:Software Engineering, Predictive Analytics, Search-Based Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering
Contributions
2026
2025
ESEC/FSE
- Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of Bias behind the Wheel: Fairness Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems within the Journal First-track
- Co-chair in Program Committee within the Doctoral Symposium-track
- Author of Behind the Hot Fix: Demystifying Hot Fixing Industrial Practices at Zühlke and Beyond within the Industry Papers-track
ICSE
- Industry Challenge Co-Chair in Industry Challenge within the Industry Challenge Track-track
- Author of Video Game Procedural Content Generation Through Software Transplantation within the SE In Practice (SEIP)-track
- Chair, TCSE of TCSE Executive Committee Meeting within the Meetings and BOFs-track
- Shadow PC mentor in Shadow PC within the Shadow PC-track
- Author of Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software within the Research Track-track
- Industry Challenge Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Committee Member in New Ideas and Emerging Results within the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)-track
- Author of Enhancing Energy-Awareness in Deep Learning through Fine-Grained Energy Measurement within the Journal-first Papers-track
- Chair, TCSE of TCSE and SIGSoft Town Hall Meeting within the Meetings and BOFs-track
- Session Chair of Industry Challenge Presentations (part of Industry Challenge Track)
Mining Software Repositories
International Conference on Program Comprehension
SANER
2024
ASE
ESEM
- Author of Game Software Engineering: A Controlled Experiment Comparing Automated Content Generation Techniques within the ESEM Technical Papers-track
- Author of Broken Agreement: The Evolution of Solidity Error Handling within the ESEM Technical Papers-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the ESEM Technical Papers-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the ESEM Emerging Results, Vision and Reflection Papers Track-track
- Author of Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms within the ESEM Emerging Results, Vision and Reflection Papers Track-track
- Author of Understanding Fairness in Software Engineering: Insights from Stack Exchange Sites within the ESEM Technical Papers-track
ICSME
2030 Software Engineering
SSBSE
GE@ICSE
ICSE
- Committee Member in Community Mentors within the SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop-track
- Author of Award session: TCSE and SIGSOFT within the Social Events-track
- Author of Mutation Analysis for Evaluating Code Translation within the Journal-first Papers-track
- Author of Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes: How Far Are We? within the Research Track-track
- Panelist in Mentoring Panel within the SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop-track
- Author of Artifact for 'Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes: How Far Are We?' within the Artifact Evaluation-track
- Industry Challenge Track Co-Chair in Organising Committee
- Author of User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg within the Software Engineering in Practice-track
- Industry Challenge Track Co-Chair in Industry Challenge within the Industry Challenge Track-track
International Conference on Program Comprehension
Mining Software Repositories
- Co-Host of Coffee for MSR newcomers within the Social Events-track
- Author of TrickyBugs: A Dataset of Corner-case Bugs in Plausible Programs within the Data and Tool Showcase Track-track
- Session Chair of Coffee for MSR newcomers (part of Technical Papers)
- Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of Greenlight: Highlighting TensorFlow APIs Energy Footprint within the Data and Tool Showcase Track-track
SANER
- Author of Agile Effort Estimation: Have We Solved the Problem Yet? Insights From A Second Replication Study (GPT2SP Replication Report) within the Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track -track
- Author of On The Effectiveness of One-Class Support Vector Machine in Different Defect Prediction Scenarios within the Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track -track
2023
SSBSE
- Author of Enhancing Genetic Improvement Mutations Using Large Language Models within the Challenge Track-track
- Author of Evaluating Explanations for Software Patches Generated by Large Language Models within the Challenge Track-track
- Author of StableYolo: Optimizing Image Generation for Large Language Models within the Challenge Track-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Committee Member in Steering Committee
ASE
Requirements Engineering
ICSE
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2022
ESEC/FSE
- Author of FrUITeR: A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse within the ESEC/FSE 2020-track
- Author of How Do Android Developers Improve Non-Functional Properties of Software? within the Journal First-track
- Industry Track Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Co-chair in Program Committee within the Industry Paper-track
- Author of MAAT: A Novel Ensemble Approach to Addressing Fairness and Performance Bugs for Machine Learning Software within the Research Papers-track
SSBSE
ASE
ESEM
ICSE
Mining Software Repositories
International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2021
SSBSE
ESEC/FSE
- Author of Fairea: A Model Behaviour Mutation Approach to Benchmarking Bias Mitigation Methods within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Learning From Mistakes: Machine Learning Enhanced Human Expert Effort Estimates within the Journal First-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
ICSE
- Session Chair of Posters 1 (part of Posters)
- Chair in Program Committee within the Posters-track
- Session Chair of 2.6.3. Defect Prediction: Data Issues and Bug Classification (part of Technical Track)
- Author of Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection within the Technical Track-track
- Posters Co-Chair in Organizing Committe
- Author of Sentinel: A Hyper-Heuristic for the Generation of Mutant Reduction Strategies within the Journal-First Papers-track
- Author of Artifact for Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection within the AE - Artifact Evaluation-track
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2020
ESEC/FSE
- Author of Cost Measures Matter for Mutation Testing Study Validity within the Research Papers-track
- Journal First Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Co-chair in Program Committee within the Journal First-track
- Author of FrUITeR: A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse within the Research Papers-track
- Panelist of Talking about differences between academia and industry#3 within the Diversity and Inclusion Program-track
ICSE
- Committee Member in Most Influential Paper ICSE from ICSE 2010 within the Most Influential Paper Award from ICSE 2010-track
- Program Board in Program Board within the Technical Papers-track
- Author of The Assessor's Dilemma: Improving Bug Repair via Empirical Game Theory within the Journal First-track
- Author of Empirical comparison of text-based mobile apps similarity measurement techniques within the Journal First-track