Canada Hall 1 and 2

VenueRogers Centre, Ottawa (formerly Shaw Centre)

Room nameCanada Hall 1 and 2

Floor3

Room number301

Capacity1700

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This will be the main room used for plenary sessions from Wednesday to Friday (Keynotes, Awards, Best Papers). Also banquet space for Thursday evening. This combines Canada Hall 1 and 2

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Wed 30 Apr
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09:00 - 10:30	Wednesday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Canada Hall 1 and 2

09:00 30m Day opening		Welcome Session Main Plenaries
09:30 60m Keynote		David Parnas Keynote: Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software Main Plenaries

11:00 - 12:30	AI for SE 1Research Track at Canada Hall 1 and 2

11:00 15m Talk		Calibration and Correctness of Language Models for Code Research Track Claudio Spiess University of California, Davis, David Gros University of California, Davis, Kunal Suresh Pai UC Davis, Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart, Rafiqul Rabin UL Research Institutes, Amin Alipour University of Houston, Susmit Jha SRI, Prem Devanbu University of California at Davis, Toufique Ahmed IBM Research
11:15 15m Talk		An Empirical Study on Commit Message Generation using LLMs via In-Context Learning Research Track Yifan Wu Peking University, Yunpeng Wang Ant Group, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China, Wei Tao Fudan University, Siyu Yu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Haowen Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li Ant Group
11:30 15m Talk		Instruct or Interact? Exploring and Eliciting LLMs’ Capability in Code Snippet Adaptation Through Prompt Engineering Research Track Tanghaoran Zhang National University of Defense Technology, Yue Yu PengCheng Lab, Xinjun Mao National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Kang Yang National University of Defense Technology, Yao Lu National University of Defense Technology, Zhang Zhang Key Laboratory of Software Engineering for Complex Systems, National University of Defense Technology, Yuxin Zhao Key Laboratory of Software Engineering for Complex Systems, National University of Defense Technology
11:45 15m Talk		Search-Based LLMs for Code OptimizationAward Winner Research Track Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Wenchao Gu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:00 15m Talk		Towards Better Answers: Automated Stack Overflow Post Updating Research Track Yubo Mai Zhejiang University, Zhipeng Gao Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study - Zhejiang University, Haoye Wang Hangzhou City University, Tingting Bi The University of Melbourne, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei, JianLing Sun Zhejiang University
12:15 15m Talk		Unseen Horizons: Unveiling the Real Capability of LLM Code Generation Beyond the FamiliarAward Winner Research Track Yuanliang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, Yifan Xie , Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Ke Liu , Chong Wang National University of Defense Technology, Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Xiangbing Huang National University of Defense Technology, Jie Song National University of Defense Technology, Chaopeng Luo National University of Defense Technology, Zhizheng Zheng National University of Defense Technology, Runlin Xu National University of Defense Technology, Yitong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Si Zheng National University of Defense Technology, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology

12:30 - 14:00	Conversation CaféSocial, Networking and Special Rooms at Canada Hall 1 and 2

12:30 90m Social Event		Conversation on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Social, Networking and Special Rooms

14:00 - 15:30	Wednesday Afternoon Awards PlenaryMain Plenaries at Canada Hall 1 and 2

14:00 30m Talk		ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and Talk by Martin Rinard Main Plenaries A: Martin C. Rinard Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:30 30m Talk		IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award and Talk by Bashar Nuseibeh Main Plenaries A: Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK
15:00 30m Talk		Most influential Paper ICSE N-10 Award and Talk Main Plenaries

16:00 - 17:30	AI for SE 2Research Track / Journal-first Papers at Canada Hall 1 and 2

16:00 15m Talk		Large Language Models for Safe Minimization Research Track Aashish Yadavally University of Texas at Dallas, xiaokai rong The University of Texas at Dallas, Phat Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
16:15 15m Talk		LUNA: A Model-Based Universal Analysis Framework for Large Language Models Journal-first Papers Da Song University of Alberta, Xuan Xie University of Alberta, Jiayang Song University of Alberta, Derui Zhu Technical University of Munich, Yuheng Huang University of Alberta, Canada, Felix Juefei-Xu New York University, Lei Ma The University of Tokyo & University of Alberta, Yuheng Huang University of Alberta, Canada
16:30 15m Talk		Intention is All You Need: Refining Your Code from Your Intention Research Track Qi Guo Tianjin University, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Shangqing Liu Nanyang Technological University, Ming Hu Nanyang Technological University, Xiaohong Li Tianjin University, Lei Bu Nanjing University
16:45 15m Talk		RLCoder: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Completion Research Track Yanlin Wang Sun Yat-sen University, yanli wang Sun Yat-sen University, Daya Guo , Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Ruikai Zhang Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies, Yuchi Ma Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
17:00 15m Talk		InterTrans: Leveraging Transitive Intermediate Translations to Enhance LLM-based Code Translation Research Track Marcos Macedo Queen's University, Yuan Tian Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Pengyu Nie University of Waterloo, Filipe Cogo Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Bram Adams Queen's University
17:15 15m Talk		Toward a Theory of Causation for Interpreting Neural Code Models Journal-first Papers David Nader Palacio William & Mary, Alejandro Velasco William & Mary, Nathan Cooper William & Mary, Alvaro Rodriguez Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary

Thu 1 May
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09:00 - 10:30	Thursday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Canada Hall 1 and 2

09:00 30m Day opening		Thursday Early Morning Awards Session Main Plenaries
09:30 60m Keynote		Neha Rungta Keynote: Engineering correctness for a domain Main Plenaries

11:00 - 12:30	TSE 50th Annniversary CelebrationPanels and Special Sessions at Canada Hall 1 and 2

11:00 90m Panel		TSE 50th Anniversary Celebration Panels and Special Sessions P: Sebastian Uchitel Imperial College London & University of Buenos Aires, P: Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK, P: Jeffrey Kramer Imperial College London, P: Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, P: Matthew B Dwyer University of Virginia

19:00 - 23:00	BanquetSocial, Networking and Special Rooms at Canada Hall 1 and 2

19:00 4h Dinner		Banquet Social, Networking and Special Rooms

Fri 2 May
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09:00 - 10:30	Friday Morning PlenaryMain Plenaries at Canada Hall 1 and 2

09:00 20m Day opening		Introduction to ICSE 2026 Main Plenaries
09:20 70m Keynote		Patricia Lago Keynote: Title: Software Sustainability and its Engineering: How far have we come? Main Plenaries

11:00 - 12:30	AI for SE 3New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) / Journal-first Papers / Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) at Canada Hall 1 and 2

11:00 15m Talk		A First Look at Conventional Commits Classification Research Track Qunhong Zeng Beijing Institute of Technology, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhiqing Qiu Beijing Institute of Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
11:15 15m Talk		ChatGPT-Based Test Generation for Refactoring Engines Enhanced by Feature Analysis on Examples Research Track Chunhao Dong Beijing Institute of Technology, Yanjie Jiang Peking University, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Yang Zhang Hebei University of Science and Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
11:30 15m Talk		SECRET: Towards Scalable and Efficient Code Retrieval via Segmented Deep Hashing Research Track Wenchao Gu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ensheng Shi Xi’an Jiaotong University, Yanlin Wang Sun Yat-sen University, Lun Du Microsoft Research, Shi Han Microsoft Research, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University, Dongmei Zhang Microsoft Research, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:45 15m Talk		UniGenCoder: Merging Seq2Seq and Seq2Tree Paradigms for Unified Code Generation New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Liangying Shao School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China, Yanfu Yan William & Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary, Jinsong Su School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China
12:00 15m Talk		How is Google using AI for internal code migrations? SE In Practice (SEIP) Stoyan Nikolov Google, Inc., Daniele Codecasa Google, Inc., Anna Sjovall Google, Inc., Maxim Tabachnyk Google, Siddharth Taneja Google, Inc., Celal Ziftci Google, Satish Chandra Google, Inc
12:15 7m Talk		LLM-Based Test-Driven Interactive Code Generation: User Study and Empirical Evaluation Journal-first Papers Sarah Fakhoury Microsoft Research, Aaditya Naik University of Pennsylvania, Georgios Sakkas University of California at San Diego, Saikat Chakraborty Microsoft Research, Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research
12:22 7m Talk		The impact of Concept drift and Data leakage on Log Level Prediction Models Journal-first Papers Youssef Esseddiq Ouatiti Queen's university, Mohammed Sayagh ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Noureddine Kerzazi Ensias-Rabat, Bram Adams Queen's University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University, Youssef Esseddiq Ouatiti Queen's university

14:00 - 15:30	Panel 2: Escaped from the Lab! Does ICSE Research Make a Difference?Panels and Special Sessions at Canada Hall 1 and 2 Chair(s): Steven D. Fraser Innoxec

14:00 90m Panel		Panel 2: Escaped from the Lab! Does ICSE Research Make a Difference? Panels and Special Sessions P: Steven D. Fraser Innoxec, P: Dennis Arthur , P: Robert Biddle Carleton University, P: Margaret Burnett Oregon State University, P: Ciera Jaspan Google, P: Tim Lister Atlantic Systems Guild, P: Gail Murphy University of British Columbia, P: Doug Schmidt

16:00 - 17:30	BlockchainResearch Track at Canada Hall 1 and 2

16:00 15m Talk		An Empirical Study of Proxy Smart Contracts at the Ethereum Ecosystem Scale Research Track Mengya Zhang The Ohio State University, Preksha Shukla George Mason University, Wuqi Zhang Mega Labs, Zhuo Zhang Purdue University, Pranav Agrawal George Mason University, Zhiqiang Lin The Ohio State University, Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University, Xiaokuan Zhang George Mason University
16:15 15m Talk		Demystifying and Detecting Cryptographic Defects in Ethereum Smart ContractsAward Winner Research Track Jiashuo Zhang Peking University, China, Yiming Shen Sun Yat-sen University, Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Jianzhong Su Sun Yat-sen University, Yanlin Wang Sun Yat-sen University, Ting Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Jianbo Gao Peking University, Zhong Chen
16:30 15m Talk		Chord: Towards a Unified Detection of Blockchain Transaction Parallelism Bugs Research Track Yuanhang Zhou Tsinghua University, Zhen Yan Tsinghua University, Yuanliang Chen Tsinghua University, Fuchen Ma Tsinghua University, Ting Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University
16:45 15m Talk		Definition and Detection of Centralization Defects in Smart Contracts Research Track Zewei Lin Sun Yat-sen University, Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Jiajing Wu Sun Yat-sen University, Weizhe Zhang Harbin Institute of Technology, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
17:00 15m Talk		Fork State-Aware Differential Fuzzing for Blockchain Consensus Implementations Research Track Won Hoi Kim KAIST, Hocheol Nam KAIST, Muoi Tran ETH Zurich, Amin Jalilov KAIST, Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore, Sang Kil Cha KAIST, Min Suk Kang KAIST
17:15 15m Talk		Code Cloning in Solidity Smart Contracts: Prevalence, Evolution, and Impact on Development Research Track Ran Mo Central China Normal University, Haopeng Song Central China Normal University, Wei Ding Central China Normal University, Chaochao Wu Central China Normal University

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	Main Plenaries Wednesday Morning Plenary																								Research Track AI for SE 1																		Social, Networking and Special Rooms Conversation Café																		Main Plenaries Wednesday Afternoon Awards Plenary																								Research Track + Journal-first Papers AI for SE 2

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	Main Plenaries Thursday Morning Plenary																								Panels and Special Sessions TSE 50th Annniversary Celebration																																																																																								Social, Networking and Special Rooms Banquet

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	Main Plenaries Friday Morning Plenary																								New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) + Journal-first Papers + Research Track + SE In Practice (SEIP) AI for SE 3																																				Panels and Special Sessions Panel 2: Escaped from the Lab! Does ICSE Research Make a Difference?																								Research Track Blockchain

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	ICSE Main Plenaries Welcome Session 09:00 - 09:30						ICSE Main Plenaries David Parnas Keynote: Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software 09:30 - 10:30																		ICSE Research Track Calibration and Correctness of Language Models for Code 11:00 - 11:15			ICSE Research Track An Empirical Study on Commit Message Generation using LLMs via In-Conte ... 11:15 - 11:30			ICSE Research Track Instruct or Interact? Exploring and Eliciting LLMs’ Capability in Code ... 11:30 - 11:45			ICSE Research TrackAward Winner Search-Based LLMs for Code Optimization 11:45 - 12:00			ICSE Research Track Towards Better Answers: Automated Stack Overflow Post Updating 12:00 - 12:15			ICSE Research TrackAward Winner Unseen Horizons: Unveiling the Real Capability of LLM Code Generation B ... 12:15 - 12:30			ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms Conversation on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) 12:30 - 14:00																		ICSE Main Plenaries ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and Talk by Martin Rinard 14:00 - 14:30						ICSE Main Plenaries IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award and Talk by Bashar Nuseibeh 14:30 - 15:00						ICSE Main Plenaries Most influential Paper ICSE N-10 Award and Talk 15:00 - 15:30												ICSE Research Track Large Language Models for Safe Minimization 16:00 - 16:15			ICSE Journal-first Papers LUNA: A Model-Based Universal Analysis Framework for Large Language Models 16:15 - 16:30			ICSE Research Track Intention is All You Need: Refining Your Code from Your Intention 16:30 - 16:45			ICSE Research Track RLCoder: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Completion 16:45 - 17:00			ICSE Research Track InterTrans: Leveraging Transitive Intermediate Translations to Enhance ... 17:00 - 17:15			ICSE Journal-first Papers Toward a Theory of Causation for Interpreting Neural Code Models 17:15 - 17:30

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	ICSE Main Plenaries Thursday Early Morning Awards Session 09:00 - 09:30						ICSE Main Plenaries Neha Rungta Keynote: Engineering correctness for a domain 09:30 - 10:30																		ICSE Panels and Special Sessions TSE 50th Anniversary Celebration 11:00 - 12:30																																																																																								ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms Banquet 19:00 - 23:00

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Canada Hall 1 and 2	ICSE Main Plenaries Introduction to ICSE 2026 09:00 - 09:20				ICSE Main Plenaries Patricia Lago Keynote: Title: Software Sustainability and its Engineeri ... 09:20 - 10:30																				ICSE Research Track A First Look at Conventional Commits Classification 11:00 - 11:15			ICSE Research Track ChatGPT-Based Test Generation for Refactoring Engines Enhanced by Featu ... 11:15 - 11:30			ICSE Research Track SECRET: Towards Scalable and Efficient Code Retrieval via Segmented Dee ... 11:30 - 11:45			ICSE New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) UniGenCoder: Merging Seq2Seq and Seq2Tree Paradigms for Unified Code Ge ... 11:45 - 12:00			ICSE SE In Practice (SEIP) How is Google using AI for internal code migrations? 12:00 - 12:15			ICSE Journal-first Papers LLM-Based Test-Driven Interactive Code Generation: User Study and Empir ... 12:15 - 12:22	ICSE Journal-first Papers The impact of Concept drift and Data leakage on Log Level Prediction Models 12:22 - 12:29																				ICSE Panels and Special Sessions Panel 2: Escaped from the Lab! Does ICSE Research Make a Difference? 14:00 - 15:30																								ICSE Research Track An Empirical Study of Proxy Smart Contracts at the Ethereum Ecosystem Scale 16:00 - 16:15			ICSE Research TrackAward Winner Demystifying and Detecting Cryptographic Defects in Ethereum Smart Cont ... 16:15 - 16:30			ICSE Research Track Chord: Towards a Unified Detection of Blockchain Transaction Parallelis ... 16:30 - 16:45			ICSE Research Track Definition and Detection of Centralization Defects in Smart Contracts 16:45 - 17:00			ICSE Research Track Fork State-Aware Differential Fuzzing for Blockchain Consensus Implemen ... 17:00 - 17:15			ICSE Research Track Code Cloning in Solidity Smart Contracts: Prevalence, Evolution, and Im ... 17:15 - 17:30

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