The great and varied achievements in software engineering research and innovation that each new edition of ICSE can show are due to the dedication, vision and inspiration of many outstanding scientists and practitioners. Every year the software engineering community assigns awards to some of such people as a recognition of their excellence and as a sign of gratitude for their dedicated service.

Traditionally it is at the ICSE conference that the yearly awards from ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) and IEEE TCSE (Technical Council on Software Engineering) are announced. Additionally several ICSE-specific awards are assigned by the organization teams of the various ICSE tracks. The recipients of

• Most Influential Paper (MIP) from ICSE N-10 Award
• ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
• IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award

are also invited to give a plenary talk at the conference.

Here below a comprehensive list of the awards usually announced at ICSE conferences (a few of them are not presented every year).

ICSE Awards
Most Influential Paper from ICSE N-10
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Distinguished Artifact Award
ACM Student Research Competition - Undergraduate
ACM Student Research Competition – Graduate
Distinguished Reviewers
Doctoral Symposium Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE Software Best Software Engineering in Practice Distinguished Paper Award
New Ideas and Emerging Results Distinguished Paper Award
Best Paper - Joint Track for Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET)
Software Engineering in Society Best Presentation Award
Software Engineering in Society Distinguished Paper Award
SCORE Award

ACM SIGSOFT Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award
ACM SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award
ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Active SIGSOFT ACM Fellows
Active SIGSOFT ACM Distinguished Members
Active SIGSOFT ACM Senior Members

IEEE TCSE Awards
Harlan D. Mills Award
TCSE Distinguished Educator Award
TCSE Distinguished Service Award
TCSE Distinguished Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award
TCSE Lifetime Achievement Award
TCSE New Directions Award
TCSE Rising Star Award
TCSE Synergy Award

A list of awards presented at ICSE 2021 is maintained here. Congratulations to all winners!

ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award

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This year the ACM Europe Council will sponsors one Best Paper Award to ICSE 2021.

It goes to: Zelin Zhao, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, Tianxiao Gu and Xiaoxing Ma for their paper “Synthesizing Object State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates”.

Awardees will receive a plaque and a €1000 honorarium (to be split among the co-authors).

ICSE 2021 Awards

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Most Influential Paper from ICSE 2021

The Most Influential Paper Award goes to Andrea Arcuri and Lionel Briand for their ICSE 2021 paper entitled “A Practical Guide for Using Statistical Tests to Assess Randomized Algorithms in Software Engineering”, addressing the key challenges of using statistical tests in software engineering.

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

• ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Apps
  Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Feng Wu, Tianming Liu, Xiapu Luo, Yang Liu

• Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow
  Kaibo Cao, Chunyang Chen, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Xiang Chen
• CodeShovel: Constructing Method-Level Source Code Histories
  Felix Grund, Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Nick Bradley, Braxton Hall, Reid Holmes
• Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets Modules
  Ying Wang, Liang Qiao, Chang Xu, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Na Meng, Hai Yu, Zhiliang Zhu
• "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
  Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
• Improving Fault Localization by Integrating Value and Predicate Based Causal Inference Techniques
  Yigit Kucuk, Tim A. D. Henderson, Andy Podgurski
• Interface Compliance of Inline Assembly: Automatically Check, Patch and Refine
  Frédéric Recoules, Sébastien Bardin, Richard Bonichon, Matthieu Lemerre, Laurent Mounier, Marie-Laure Potet
• JEST: N+1-version Differential Testing of Both JavaScript Engines and Specification
  Jihyeok Park, Seungmin An, Dongjun Youn, Gyeongwon Kim, Sukyoung Ryu
• Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study
  Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Chris Parnin, André Brechmann, Janet Siegmund
• Synthesizing Object State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates
  Zelin Zhao, Yanyan Jiang, Chang Xu, Tianxiao Gu, Xiaoxing Ma
• Traceability Transformed: Generating moreAccurate Links with Pre-Trained BERT Models
  Jinfeng Lin, Yalin Liu, Qingkai Zeng, Meng Jiang, Jane Cleland-Huang
• What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects?
  Edson Dias, Paulo Meirelles, Fernando Castor, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese, Gustavo Pinto
• Why don’t Developers Detect Improper Input Validation?'; DROP TABLE Papers; -
  Larissa Braz, Enrico Fregnan, Gül Calikli, Alberto Bacchelli

Distinguished Artifact Award

• Replication Package for Article: Data-Oriented Differential Testing of Object-Relational Mapping Systems
  Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Stefanos Chaliasos, Vaggelis Atlidakis, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Diomidis Spinellis
• Artifact for Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection
  Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman

Distinguished Reviewer Award

• Gabriele Bavota, USI-Lugano, Switzerland
• Jonathan Bell, Northeastern University, USA
• Maria Christakis, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
• Myra Cohen, Iowa State University, USA
• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Stephanie Forrest, Arizona State University, USA
• Miryung Kim, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
• Julia Lawall, INRIA, France
• Xiaoxing Ma, Nanjing University, China
• Emerson Murphy-Hill, Google, USA
• Martin Pinzger, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Antonio Ruiz-Cortés ,University of Seville, Spain
• Kathryn Stolee ,North Carolina State University, USA
• Yulei Sui ,University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Paolo Tonella ,USI-Lugano, Switzerland

IEEE Software Distinguished Paper Award - Software Engineering in Practice

• Industry-scale IR-based Bug Localization: A Perspective from Facebook
  Vijayaraghavan Murali,Lee Gross, Rebecca Qian, Satish Chandra

Best Paper - Joint Track for Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET)

• Teaching Model-based Requirements Engineering to Industry Professionals: An Experience Report
  Marian Daun, Jennifer Brings, Marcel Goger, Walter Koch, Thorsten Weyer

Software Engineering in Society Distinguished Paper Award

• Awareness and Perception of Agile in Saudi Software Industry
  Fahad Altuwaijri, Maria Angela Ferrario

ACM Student Research Competition - Undergraduate

To be Decided

ACM Student Research Competition - Graduate

To be Decided

SCORE

To be Decided

ACM SIGSOFT 2021 Awards

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ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award goes to Prof. Prem Devanbu (UC Davis) “for profoundly changing the way researchers think about software by exploring connections between source code and natural language”.

ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award goes to Prof. Katsuro Inoue (Osaka University) “for his life-long foundational contributions to software engineering education and his success in connecting generations of educators and researchers from Japan with the international community”

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Awards goes to Prof. Tao Xie (Peking University) “for outstanding service contributions to the software engineering community, including substantial activities on SIGSOFT history, broadening participation in software engineering, and successful chairing of technical events”

ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award

The Impact Paper Award goes to the ICSE 1999 paper “Patterns of Property Specifications for Finite-State Verification” by Matthew B. Dwyer, George S. Avrunin, and James C. Corbett “for enabling widespread use of temporal logic for program verification by raising the level of abstraction to common patterns.”

ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award goes to Dr. Lingming Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “for outstanding contributions to mutation testing, regression testing, fault localization, and program repair”

ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award goes to Dr. August Shi (now University of Texas at Austin) for his Dissertation “Improving Regression Testing Efficiency and Reliability via Test-Suite Transformations” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor: Darko Marinov)

ACM SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award

The ACM SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award goes to Ms. Sumaya Almanee (UC Irvine)

IEEE Awards

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Harlan D. Mills Award

The Harlan Mills Award goes to Prof. Dieter Rombach in recognition of his outstanding contributions and leadership in research, teaching, and technology transfer in the area of empirical software engineering.

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Leadership Award

The IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished WISE Leadership Award goes to Professor Sue Black (Durham University) “for creating highly recognized and sustained programs to help women, who are not originally related to computing and technology, develop the required skills to pursue their dreams and improve their quality of lives through computer science and software engineering career paths. The impact she has generated by mentoring underprivileged women, and ever their children, is endless”.

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Service Award

The IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Service Award goes to Professor David Lo (Singapore Management University) “for his extensive and outstanding service to the software engineering community in his many roles in major software engineering conferences and journals”.

IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Education Award

The IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Education Award goes to Professor Ahmed Hassan (Queen’s University) “for his continuous efforts in raising generations of software engineering researchers coming to his lab from all over the world. Twenty six of his former trainees are now faculty members in various areas of software engineering”.

IEEE CS TCSE New Directions Award

The IEEE CS TCSE New Directions Award goes to Professor Yuriy Brun (University of Massachusetts) “for setting a new direction in software engineering research by defining the area of software fairness testing. His advocacy for industrial uptake of software fairness testing has attracted both funding and opportunities for real-world impact, and charted a roadmap for software engineering research in this new area”.

IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award

The IEEE CS TCSE Rising Star Award goes to Professor Federica Sarro (University College London) “for her high-impact, industrially relevant research on predictive modeling for software engineering. In parallel to her research excellence, she has also made substantial contributions to the training of a large cohort of students, and to the development of improved curricula in support of this training”.