Becoming a new faculty member is challenging due to the number of roles a faculty member plays and the lack of preparation for these roles. In particular, doctoral training most likely has not prepared the new faculty member beyond how to conduct research themselves and, perhaps, how to teach topics that are close to their research area. The great news is that most faculty members transcend all these challenges and feel they have a most rewarding, intellectually stimulating, and flexible career, and they don’t want to retire! The goals of the FSE 2025 New Faculty Symposium (NFS) are to help new Software Engineering faculty members launch a successful career and manage the associated challenges while feeling joy in their life as a faculty member.
The agenda for the Symposium will include most of the following topics:
- Building and supporting a research program
- Balancing teaching, service and research
- Strategies and practices for managing students
- Publication strategies
- Career Management, promotion and networking
- Ethics and living in a multicultural community
- Time management and work-life balance
How to Participate
Any interested participant can sign up for the symposium. There is no application process. New faculty members, prospective faculty members, and mid-career faculty members can all benefit from sharing experiences, questions, answers, and viewpoints.
If you are an experienced member of the software engineering research community (faculty, industry, government, etc.) and would like to contribute by giving a talk or serving on a panel, please reach out to the organizers. We are designing a rich program and would love to know of your interest in helping out.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
The New Faculty Symposium at FSE 2025 aims to be an inclusive event, with a diverse set of speakers and panelists in terms of gender, geography, seniority, etc.
Wed 25 JunDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
08:45 - 09:00 | ISSTA OpeningPlenary Events at Cosmos Hall Chair(s): Cristian Cadar Imperial College London, Miryung Kim UCLA and Amazon Web Services | ||
08:45 15mTalk | ISSTA Opening Plenary Events | ||
09:00 - 09:30 | SIGSOFT Impact AwardPlenary Events at Cosmos Hall Chair(s): Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University | ||
09:00 30mTalk | Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review Plenary Events | ||
09:30 - 10:30 | FSE and ISSTA joint Keynote Matthew DwyerPlenary Events at Cosmos Hall Chair(s): Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary | ||
09:30 60mKeynote | Leveraging Latent-space Generative Models for Testing Plenary Events | ||
11:00 - 15:30 | |||
11:00 10mTalk | Opening & Introductions New Faculty Symposium | ||
11:10 25mTalk | On The Challenges of Growing a Research Lab and a Toddler Simultaneously New Faculty Symposium File Attached | ||
11:35 25mTalk | Building Your Research Vision New Faculty Symposium File Attached | ||
12:00 45mOther | Panel Discussion New Faculty Symposium | ||
13:45 25mTalk | Research Productivity and Time Management New Faculty Symposium File Attached | ||
14:10 35mTalk | Mentoring and Supervising Students New Faculty Symposium | ||
14:45 45mOther | Breakout Groups and Open Plenary New Faculty Symposium | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | |||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch Catering | ||
17:00 - 18:00 | |||
17:00 60mDay closing | Conference Closing, SRC Award, and FSE'26 Kick-off Plenary Events | ||
Cristian CadarCo-chair
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
Miryung KimCo-chair
UCLA and Amazon Web Services
United States
Reyhaneh JabbarvandSpeaker
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
Michael PradelSpeaker
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Baishakhi RaySpeaker
Columbia University
United States
Abhik RoychoudhurySpeaker
National University of Singapore
Singapore