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Thu 19 Feb
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	08:15 - 14:00	RegistrationResearch Papers at IIIM Campus

09:00 - 10:30	Workshop 1: Generative AI and Software EngineeringTutorials and Workshops at Auditorium

09:00 90m Talk		Workshop on Generative AI and Software Engineering (Gen AI & SE) Tutorials and Workshops Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu Infosys Limited, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Ravindra Naik Tata Consultancy Services, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad

09:00 - 10:30	Tutorial 1: MAVERICKTutorials and Workshops at Hall no. 206

09:00 90m Talk		Tutorial :MAVERICK: A Workbook-Driven Approach for Comprehending Large Software Systems Tutorials and Workshops Mrityunjay Kumar IIIT Hyderabad, A: yogesh badaya

09:00 - 10:30	Workshop 2: Generative AI and LLMs in Software EngineeringTutorials and Workshops at Seminar Hall

09:00 90m Talk		Workshop: From Testing Automation to Fault Prediction using LLM Tutorials and Workshops Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal, A: Lov Kumar National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, P. Radha Krishna National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal

	10:30 - 11:00	Tea / Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

11:00 - 12:30	Workshop 1 (Continued)Tutorials and Workshops at Auditorium

11:00 90m Talk		Workshop on Generative AI and Software Engineering (Gen AI & SE) Tutorials and Workshops Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu Infosys Limited, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Ravindra Naik Tata Consultancy Services, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad

11:00 - 12:30	Tutorial 1 (Continued)Tutorials and Workshops at Hall no. 206

11:00 90m Talk		Tutorial :MAVERICK: A Workbook-Driven Approach for Comprehending Large Software Systems Tutorials and Workshops Mrityunjay Kumar IIIT Hyderabad, A: yogesh badaya

11:00 - 12:30	Workshop 2 (Continued)Tutorials and Workshops at Seminar Hall

11:00 90m Talk		Workshop: From Testing Automation to Fault Prediction using LLM Tutorials and Workshops Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal, A: Lov Kumar National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, P. Radha Krishna National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

12:30 90m Lunch		Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30	Technical Briefings 1 at Seminar HallTutorials and Workshops

14:00 90m Talk		Tech Briefing:Uncovering Vulnerabilities through symbolic execution using KLEE Tutorials and Workshops A: Dr.Swati Goel , A: Gaurav Varshney

14:00 - 15:30	Workshop 1 (Continued)Tutorials and Workshops at Auditorium

14:00 90m Talk		Workshop on Generative AI and Software Engineering (Gen AI & SE) Tutorials and Workshops Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu Infosys Limited, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Ravindra Naik Tata Consultancy Services, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad

15:30 - 16:00	Tea/Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

15:30 30m Coffee break		Break Break

16:00 - 17:30	Technical Briefings 2 at Seminar HallTutorials and Workshops

16:00 90m Talk		Tech Briefing:From Artifacts to Answers: Query Search Interpretation Response (QSIR) as a Foundation for Knowledge-Centric Software Engineering Tutorials and Workshops A: Chandan Prakash TCS Research, A: Pavan Kumar Chittimalli

16:00 - 17:30	Workshop 1 (Final)Tutorials and Workshops at Auditorium

16:00 90m Talk		Workshop on Generative AI and Software Engineering (Gen AI & SE) Tutorials and Workshops Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu Infosys Limited, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Ravindra Naik Tata Consultancy Services, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad

Fri 20 Feb
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	08:15 - 14:00	RegistrationResearch Papers at IIIM Campus

	09:00 - 09:30	Opening CeremonyResearch Papers at Auditorium

09:30 - 10:30	Keynote 1: Dr. Sarah NadiISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

09:30 60m Keynote		Software Dependencies: Then, Now, and What’s Next ISEC 2026 Keynotes Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi

	10:30 - 11:00	Tea / Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

	11:00 - 11:15	Lightening Talks: Demo/Doctoral SymposiumResearch Papers at Auditorium

11:15 - 12:40	Research Session 1: AI-Driven Testing, Debugging, and Fault PredictionResearch Papers at Auditorium

11:15 20m Research paper		Proactive Software Fault Prediction with LLMs, Balanced ML, and Postmortem Analysis Research Papers Monika Yadav Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Lov Kumar National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Vishal Passricha Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh
11:35 20m Research paper		Enhancing GitHub Actions Failure Explanations: Log Preprocessing and Prompt Optimization with LLMs Research Papers Venkata Sai Sravya Sambaturu University of Michigan-Flint, Meriem Mastouri University of Michigan-Flint, Belhassen Khefacha University of Michigan-Flint, Ameen Vathimattom Ashraf University of Michigan-Flint, Rafique Agyare University of Michigan-Flint, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan-Flint
11:55 20m Research paper		Refining Tests through API Response Evaluation Research Papers Devika Sondhi IBM Research, Ananya Sharma IIIT Delhi, Diptikalyan Saha IBM Research
12:15 12m Short-paper		kS-LLM: k-Step based Automatic LLM Test Case Generator using Caching Mechanism to Achieve Higher Code Coverage Research Papers Anand Sharma National Institute of Technology Warangal, VIVEK YELLETI National Institute of Technology Warangal, Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal, P. Radha Krishna National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal
12:27 12m Short-paper		A Data-Driven Framework for Evaluating Mobile UI Usability through Interaction Elements and Design Semantics Research Papers Gundala Shanmukhi Rama National Institute of Technology Warangal, Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal, RAVICHANDRA SADAM National Institute of Technology Warangal

11:20 - 12:40	Doctoral Symposium / Demo Tracks SessionDoctoral Symposium / Demo Papers at Seminar Hall

11:20 30m Demonstration		QUERYGEN: A Tool for SQL Query Generation from Natural Language using Prompt Engineering Demo Papers Suyash Vikram Singh ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India, Santosh Singh Rathore ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, Saurabh Tiwari Dhirubhai Ambani University, formerly DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India
11:50 25m Doctoral symposium paper		Towards Reliable Task-Based Chatbots: Coverage, Mutation, and Repair Doctoral Symposium Sandeep Romana , Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal
12:15 20m Doctoral symposium paper		Neuron-Centric White-Box Testing Framework: Advancing Deep Learning Model Validation with Fuzz Testing, Optimization Algorithms, and Application Development Doctoral Symposium GEEDIKANTI SRIKANTH NITW

	12:40 - 14:00	Lunch Break + PhD PostersStudent Posters and Data Science Challenge at IIIM Campus

14:00 - 15:00	Keynote 2: Dr. Marcel BöhmeISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

14:00 60m Keynote		On Estimating Incorrectness in the Absence of Evidence ISEC 2026 Keynotes Marcel Böhme MPI for Security and Privacy

15:00 - 16:00	Research Session 2: Next-Generation Systems, Infrastructure, and ToolsResearch Papers at Auditorium

15:00 20m Research paper		DAVi: A Slim, Secure and Scalable Framework for Developing Data Analytics and Visualization Platforms Research Papers Manish Agrawal IIT Kanpur, Prashik Ganer IIT Kanpur, Amit Bhasita IIT Kanpur, Khushwant Kaswan IIT Kanpur, Tippireddy Yashwanth IIT Kanpur, Soumya Dutta IIT Kanpur, Purushottam Kar IIT Kanpur
15:20 20m Short-paper		Towards a Decentralised Peer-To-Peer Framework for Inter-Cluster Communication in Kubernetes Research Papers Chaitanya Tandon Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, Mohd Sarim Shamim Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, Sohit Dhawan Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, Himanshu IIT Jammu, Subrata Goswami Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, Harsh Mehra Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, Avanish Pandey Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, Sarada Prasad Gochhayat Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu
15:40 12m Short-paper		Leveraging LLMs for Generating Infrastructure as Code: An Exploratory Empirical Study Research Papers Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad, Manish Shrivastava IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad, Ganesh Srivatsa Kalahasti IIIT Hyderabad

	15:00 - 16:00	Student Poster SessionStudent Posters and Data Science Challenge at IIIM Hall

15:00 - 16:00	Doctoral Symposium SessionDoctoral Symposium at Seminar Hall

15:00 25m Doctoral symposium paper		Advancements in Runtime Enforcement Frameworks for Reactive Systems Doctoral Symposium Ayush Anand Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Srinivas Pinisetty Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Thierry Jéron INRIA
15:25 25m Doctoral symposium paper		An Integrated Approach to Hybrid Fuzz–Combinatorial and Structured Testcase Generation for Improved Coverage and Fault Detection Efficiency Doctoral Symposium Nethravathi Rippika national institute of technology warangal, Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal

	16:00 - 16:30	Tea / Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

16:30 - 18:00	Research Session 3: Software EvolutionResearch Papers at Auditorium

16:30 20m Research paper		Adoption of AI Assisted Coding – Cognitive Barriers, Motivational Factors and Productivity Gains Research Papers Dhiraj SM Varanasi IIIT Hyderabad, India, Raghu Reddy IIIT Hyderabad, India, Sandip Potdar HSBC Software Development India, Himanshu S Warudkar HSBC Software Development India
16:50 20m Research paper		Lost in the Backlog: A Thematic and Sentiment Analysis of Stale GitHub Issues Research Papers Mohit Kaushik Guru Nanak Dev University, Kuljit Kaur Chahal Guru Nanak Dev University
17:10 12m Short-paper		EntroURL-Bench: A Feature-Rich Benchmark Dataset for Trustworthy Malicious URL Detection Research Papers Avijit Gayen IIIT Guwahati, Sayan Mondal IIIT Guwahati, Khokan Mondal Techno India University, Angshuman Jana IIIT Guwahati
17:22 12m Short-paper		Unlocking Tacit Wisdom: A Knowledge Graph Framework for Querying Project Management Expertise Research Papers Anurag Agarwal IIIT Kottayam, Manu Madhavan IIIT Kottayam
17:34 12m Short-paper		From Commits to Corrections: Toward Lightweight Mining of Python Bug-Fix Patterns from GitHub Research Papers Emil Spangenberg University of Southern Denmark, Jens Christian Toftdahl University of Southern Denmark, Joakim Leed University of Southern Denmark, Oliver Feldborg Hansen University of Southern Denmark, Torben Worm University of Southern Denmark, Abhishek Tiwari University of Southern Denmark, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard University of Southern Denmark

	16:30 - 18:00	Student Poster SessionStudent Posters and Data Science Challenge at IIIM Hall

16:45 - 17:30	Doctoral Symposium SessionDoctoral Symposium at Seminar Hall

16:30 25m Doctoral symposium paper		Modeling Code Understandability Doctoral Symposium Vikas Kushwaha Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
16:55 25m Doctoral symposium paper		Formal verification of distributed, data-intensive microservice applications using Petri Nets Doctoral Symposium Shubham , Meenakshi D'Souza IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

	19:00 - 22:00	Cultural Program and Banquet DinnerBreak at Chokhi Dhani

Sat 21 Feb
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09:00 - 09:45	SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Invited Talk 1ISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

09:00 45m Talk		Towards Neural Synthesis for SMT-Assisted Proof-Oriented Programming ISEC 2026 Keynotes Saikat Chakraborty Microsoft Research

09:45 - 10:30	SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Invited Talk 2ISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

09:45 45m Talk		A Transferability Study of Interpolation-Based Hardware Model Checking for Software Verification ISEC 2026 Keynotes Nian-Ze Lee National Taiwan University, Taiwan

	10:30 - 11:00	Tea / Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

11:00 - 11:30	ISEC Test of Time Award TalkISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

11:00 30m Talk		Impact of Feature Selection Techniques on Bug Prediction Models ISEC 2026 Keynotes Muthukumaran K

11:30 - 12:40	Research Session 4: Code Quality, Safety, and Security AssuranceResearch Papers at Auditorium

11:30 20m Research paper		From Correctness to Code Quality: Formalizing Software Engineering Metrics for Evaluating General LLMs Research Papers JAYESH UMRE PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Jabalpur, MP, India, Ashish Singh Parihar PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Jabalpur, MP, India, Atul Gupta PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Jabalpur, MP, India
11:50 20m Research paper		Cp2SRust: A Transpiler for C/C++ to Safer Rust Research Papers Vedanta Mohapatra Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Dhiren Tripuramallu Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Arnav Kumar Behera Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Srinivas Pinisetty Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Shinde Arjun Shivaji Samsung R&D Inst., Bangalore, Ajaganna Bandeppa Samsung R&D Inst., Bangalore
12:10 20m Research paper		Modeling and Verification of Enhanced MTIP: Secure and Sleepy Research Papers Manan Khanna Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Srinivas Pinisetty Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
12:30 12m Short-paper		Correlation-Aware Voting for Robust Code Smell Detection: An Efficient Feature Selection Approach Research Papers Nikita Bhedasgaonkar PICT, Pune, Govind Soni IIT Bombay, Rushikesh K. Joshi IIT Bombay

	11:30 - 12:45	Data Science ChallengeStudent Posters and Data Science Challenge at Seminar Hall

	12:40 - 14:00	Lunch Break + Student Posters DisplayStudent Posters and Data Science Challenge at IIIM Campus

14:00 - 15:00	Keynote 3: Dr. Siddhartha AsthanaISEC 2026 Keynotes at Auditorium

14:00 60m Keynote		Shipping Models, Not Just Code: How AI Is Forcing Software Engineering to Evolve ISEC 2026 Keynotes Siddhartha Asthana Mastercard

15:00 - 15:52	Research Session 5: Generative AI for Requirements and Code SynthesisResearch Papers at Auditorium

15:00 20m Research paper		cfgLLM: Automated assistance for software requirements using multi-LLM Fusion Agentic Framework Research Papers Chigilipalli Lohit Aryan Chakravarthi National Institute of Technology Warangal, VIVEK YELLETI National Institute of Technology Warangal, Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal, P. Radha Krishna National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal
15:20 20m Research paper		UCGen: Leveraging LLMs for Automated Generation of Use Case Textual Descriptions from Requirements Specification Research Papers Mohammed Ammar Karimi Dhirubhai Ambani University, formerly DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India, Saurabh Tiwari Dhirubhai Ambani University, formerly DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India
15:40 12m Short-paper		STARK: A Comprehensive Framework for PLC Structured Text Assistant for Reasoning and Knowledge Research Papers Diya Saha TCS Research, Biswajit Chatterjee TCS Research, Supriya Gain TCS Research, Manjira Sinha TCS Research, Tirthankar Dasgupta TCS Research, Chirabrata Bhaumik TCS Research

	16:00 - 16:30	Tea / Coffee BreakBreak at IIIM Campus

	16:30 - 17:30	Industry Panel Discussion: Will Agentic SE Kill Junior Developers or Create Better Ones?Research Papers at Auditorium

	17:30 - 18:00	Closing CeremonyResearch Papers at Auditorium

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