SERI

The Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meetings, which are conducted annually, are informal events, with the aim of bringing together faculty, students, industrial researchers, and practitioners working in software engineering, to present and discuss advances in their areas of interest. The 2024 edition of SERI will be hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. This will be an in-person meeting, spanning July 19th and 20th. This event is sponsored by the India Chapter of SIGSOFT Special Interest Group of ACM, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus and ACM India Council

Talks will delve into foundational aspects, algorithms, approaches, or experiences, focusing on novel or interesting insights, relating to any aspect of software engineering such as requirements, design, development, analysis, testing, verification, or deployment.

More details can be found at Call for Proposal and Participation tab.

Deadline for Proposal/Participation request submission: 10 June 2024 (Second Call).

Participation is open only to persons who have been notified by the organizers, and who have completed the participation confirmation form that has been shared by the organizers.

Please fill this form to sign-up to receive announcements regarding future SERI events by email.

Links to previous SERI workshops

SERI 2023: June 2-3 2023, at Goa University, Goa
SERI 2022: online talk series link
SERI 2021: online workshop, July 15-17 2021, organized by IIT Ropar
SERI 2020: online workshop, July 9-11 2020, organized by IIIT Hyderabad
SERI 2019: July 12-13 2019, at IISc Bangalore.

Call for Proposal and Participation

Important Dates.

Deadline to submit Participation/Proposal (first call): April 26, 2024.
Deadline to submit Participation/Proposal (second call): Mon, June 10, 2024.
Notification of Acceptance of Proposal/Participation : Mon, June 17, 2024.
SERI Update Meet 2024: July 19th, and July 20th at Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peetham, Coimatore.

The Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meet, conducted annually, is an informal event, with the aim of bringing together faculty, students, industrial researchers, and practitioners working in software engineering to present and discuss advances in their areas of interest. The 6th SERI Update Meeting will take place at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus , on July 19th and 20th, 2024. This event is sponsored by the India Chapter of the SIGSOFT Special Interest Group of ACM and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. SERI 2024 invites both the submission of proposals and participation.

Proposal

Please submit your proposal using the following form: https://t.ly/XqOzX

The proposals can target a foundational aspect, algorithm, approach, or experience, focusing on novel or interesting insights, relating to any aspect of software engineering such as requirements, design, development, analysis, testing, verification, deployment, or maintenance. The submitted proposal could be based on prior published work or ongoing work. The submission is in the form of an extended abstract of up to 300 words, and an optional 1-page write-up.

The submission follows a single-blind process, and evaluation criteria include technical soundness, significance, presentation, and the ability of the work to spark discussion among the audience of SERI.

Participation

Please submit your request for participation using the following form: https://t.ly/XqOzX

Notification of Acceptance of Proposal and Participation

Our notification will tell you whether your request for Participation is accepted. In case you have a Proposal to present, our notification will also tell you whether your Proposal is accepted.

Registration and Accommodation

There will be NO registration fee for this event. Participants will need to arrange their own travel and accommodation (suggestions for nearby accommodation options will be provided on the website). The committee shall disclose details on partial travel grants for students (if any) at a later date.

Conference Schedule

Day 1 (July 19th)

• 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
• 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration
• 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM: Inaugural and PC Report
• 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Graphs, GPU and Performance
  • Kevin Jude Concessao, IIT Palakkad
    • Meerkat: A framework for Dynamic Graph Algorithms on GPUs
  • Nithin Puthalath Manoj, National Institute of Technology Calicut
    • STGraph: A Framework for Temporal Graph Neural Networks
  • Deepak Unnikrishnan, NVIDIA, USA
    • Unlocking the Power of Accelerated Computing: Efficient Software Development and Performance Benchmarking
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Discussion
• 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Coffee break
• 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM: Sponsor Talk
  • Colruyt Group
• 11:40 AM - 11:45 AM: iSoft Talk
• 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: Generative AI in Software Engineering-- Industry Perspective
  • Diptikalyan Saha, IBM Research, India
    • Agentic Software Engineering
  • Ravindra Naik, TCS Research
    • Can LLMs capture the business of an enterprise?
  • Atul Kumar, IBM Research
    • Validating Auto Transformed Code by Generating and Executing Unit Tests
• 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch & Networking
• 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM: Testing and Program Analysis
  • Devika Sondhi, IBM Research, India
    • REST API Functional Tester
  • Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
    • Test Automation Framework for C++ Programs
  • Arjun H Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    • Selective Value-Object Inlining using Hybrid Static and Dynamic Analysis
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Discussion
• 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Lightning Talks
  • Mrityunjay Kumar, IIIT Hyderabad
    • Why do new campus hires at SaaS product companies struggle?
  • R Nandakumar, Ex-ISRO-SAC
    • Defining and Measuring Software Quality
  • Dhiraj Shanmukha Mitra V, IIIT-Hyderabad
    • Measuring Software Development Waste in Open-Source Software Projects
  • Arjun R., Vellore Institute of Technology
    • Document Summarizing using Generative AI
  • Rudra Dhar, IIIT Hyderabad
    • GenAI powered co-pilot for Architecture knowledge management
• 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Coffee break
• 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM: Panel Discussion on Careers in Software Engineering & Research (Academia & Industry)
  • Sridhar Chimalakonda
  • Prof. Raghu Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad
  • Prof. Manas, IIT Bombay
  • Prof. Meenakshi D'souza
  • Atul Kumar, IBM Research
  • Deepak Unnikrishnan, Nvidia
• 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM: Impromptu Lightning talks (5 min each)
• 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Cultural Program
• 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Banquet Dinner

Day 2 (July 20th)

• 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
• 9:00 - 9:45: Fuzzing & Testing
  • Dr. Sangharatna Godboley, NITMiner Technologies Private Limited
    • gptCombFuzz: Combinatorial Oriented LLM Seed Generation for effective Fuzzing
  • Arun, Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
    • Superblock Scheduler for Code-Size Sensitive Applications
  • Darshana Das K, Government Engineering College Thrissur
    • Fuzzing Programs with Structure-aware Fuzzers
• 9:45 - 10:00: Discussion
• 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 11:15: Developer Productivity
  • Muhammad Tabrez, TCS
    • Impact of GitHub Copilot on developer productivity
  • A G Priya Varshini, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
    • Estimating Software Development Efforts Using a Random Forest-Based Stacked Ensemble Approach
  • Prakhar Jain, IIITH
    • Reimagining Self-Adaptation in the Age of Large Language Models
• 11:15 - 11:30: Discussion
• 11:30 - 12:15: Development & Runtime Analysis
  • Rupashree Rangaiyengar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    • Multi-Layer Observability for Fault Localization in Microservices Based Systems
  • Sai Anirudh Karre, Software Engineering Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad
    • Model Driven Development for developing Virtual Reality Software Products
  • Aditya Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    • Optimistic Stack Allocation and Dynamic Heapification for Managed Runtimes
• 12:15 - 12:30: Discussion
• 12:30 - 1:00: Wrap Up
• 1:00 - 2:30: Lunch & Networking