The Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meetings 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 2025 edition of SERI update meet will be hosted by National Institute of Technology Warangal Telangana India. This will be an in-person meeting, spanning July 11th and 12th.
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.
One can take part in SERI in two ways.
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By Submitting a talk proposal: You are invited to submit a talk proposal. For details, please goto Call-for-Proposal
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Without submitting any proposals: You are invited to participate as an attendee through registration. This gives you an opportunity to listen to the talks, networking with academics and practitioners, participating in working group discussions, validating your ideas with like minded people. For participation, register through Attending-SERI
Links to previous SERI workshops and the ongoing online talk series:
SERI 2024 : July 19-20 2024, at Coimbatore, India
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.
Accepted Proposals
Program Schedule
| Date | Timing | Session | Topic | Speaker | Institute/Organization | Type | ||||||||
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| 11-07-2025 | ||||||||||||||
| 8.45 - 9.15 | Registration | |||||||||||||
| 9.15-9.30 | Inaugural Ceremony | Sangharatna Godboley / P Radhakrishna | NIT Warangal | |||||||||||
| 9.30-9.40 | SERI PC Report | Raveendra/Unnikrishnan | ||||||||||||
| 9.40-10.00 | Address/Message By Institute Dignitary | NIT Warangal | ||||||||||||
| 10.00-13.00 | Session 1 | Session Chair | Karthik Vidyanadhan | IIIT Hyderabad | ||||||||||
| 10.00-10.45 | Invited Talk 1 | K V Raghavan | IISc, Bangalore | |||||||||||
| 10.45-11.15 | Tea break | |||||||||||||
| 11.15-13.00 | Architecture/Design | |||||||||||||
| 11.15-11.30 | DRAFT-ing Architectural Design Decisions using LLMs | Rudra Dhar | IIIT Hyderabad | Full | ||||||||||
| 11.30-11.45 | Element based User Interaction with Design Semantics of Mobile Apps: A Data-Driven Study Using the Rico Dataset | Shanmukhi Rama | NIT Warangal | Full | ||||||||||
| 11.45-12.00 | Are Prompts Specifications? - A Zero-Shot Prompting Experiment in Evaluating Long-Form Submissions with LLMs | Mrityunjay Kumar | BITS Pilani | Full | ||||||||||
| 12.00-12.15 | Architecting Digital Twins for Smart Cities | Likhith Kanigolla | IIIT Hyderabad | Short | ||||||||||
| 12.15-12.30 | Domain Aligned Microservices Decomposition | Jay Gandhi | TCS Research | Full | ||||||||||
| 12.30-12.45 | Micro frontend based framework for improving the performance and maintainability of microservices applications | Neha Kaushik | JC Bose Univ, Haryana | Full | ||||||||||
| 12.45-13.00 | Discussion | |||||||||||||
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch & Networking | |||||||||||||
| 14.30-16.10 | Session 2 | Session Chair | Durga Prasad Mohapatra | NIT Rourkela | ||||||||||
| 14.30-16.10 | Testing/Verification | |||||||||||||
| 14.30-15.15 | Invited Talk 2 | Atul Kumar | IBM Research, Bangalore | |||||||||||
| 15.15-15.30 | Approach Towards Semi-Automated Certification for Low Criticality ML-Enabled Airborne Applications | Chandrasekar S | IIIT Hyderabad | Full | ||||||||||
| 15.30-15.45 | Making efective carbon‑box testing technique using prioritised‑selected test cases driven combinatorial approach | Nethravathi Rippika | NIT Warangal | Full | ||||||||||
| 15.45-16.00 | Performance-Aware Mutation Testing in C: Prioritizing Mutants Based on CPU Utilization, RAM Access, and Operator Precedence | Ajay Sirsat | NIT Warangal | Full | ||||||||||
| 16.00-16.10 | Discussion | |||||||||||||
| 16.10-16.30 | Tea break | |||||||||||||
| 16.30-17.45 | Panel/Impromptu discussion | |||||||||||||
| 19.00-21.00 | Banquet Dinner | |||||||||||||
| 12-07-2025 | ||||||||||||||
| 9:00-12:50 | Session 3 | Session Chair | Manju Bala Bisi | NIT Warangal | ||||||||||
| 9.00-10.30 | Testing4AI/AI4Testing | |||||||||||||
| 9.00-9.45 | Invited Talk 3 | Jyothi Vedurada | IIT Hyderabad | |||||||||||
| 9.45-10.00 | Neuron-Centric White-Box Testing Framework: Advancing Deep Learning Model Validation with Fuzz Testing, Optimization Algorithms, and Application Development | GEEDIKANTI SRIKANTH | NIT Warangal | Full | ||||||||||
| 10.00-10.10 | Optimal Testcase Generator for Dialogflow CX Chatbots | Sandeep Romana | NIT Warangal | Short | ||||||||||
| 10.10-10.20 | Toward Intelligent and Scalable Exploitation of Smart Contracts: A Unified Framework for Vulnerability Detection and Automated Attack Synthesis | Manasa Gandhari | NIT Warangal | Short | ||||||||||
| 10.20-10.30 | Discussion | |||||||||||||
| 10.30-11.00 | Tea break | |||||||||||||
| 11.00-13:00 | Session 4 | Session Chair | K.V Raghavan | IISc, Bangalore | ||||||||||
| 11.00-11.50 | AI/Intelligent Algorithms | |||||||||||||
| 11.00-11.10 | Framework to assess, monitor and enhance sustainability in AI-enabled Systems | Akhila Matathammal | IIITH | Short | ||||||||||
| 11.10-11.20 | GSOHC: Global Synchronization Optimization in Heterogeneous Computing | Soumik Basu | IIT Hyderabad | Short | ||||||||||
| 11.20-11.35 | Symbolic fixpoint algorithms for logical LTL games | Stanly Samuel | IISc | Full | ||||||||||
| 11.35-11.40 | Discussion | |||||||||||||
| 11.40-13.00 | AI4SE | |||||||||||||
| 11.40-11.55 | Trustworthy Automated Programming using LLMs | Abhishek Singh | IIIT Hyderabad | Full | ||||||||||
| 11.55-12.10 | MOYA: LLM Powered Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous CloudOps | Sreemaee Akshathala | IIIT Hyderabad | Full | ||||||||||
| 12.10-12.25 | HarmonE: A Self-Adaptive Approach to Architecting Sustainable MLOps | Hiya Bhatt | IIIT Hyderabad | Full | ||||||||||
| 12.25-12.35 | Leveraging Generative AI for Data Mapping | Arihant | TCS Research | Short | ||||||||||
| 12.35-12.45 | Mitigating Cold Start in Serverless Environments Using Time Series Forecasting | Sandeep Nekkala | NIT Mizoram | Short | ||||||||||
| 12.45-12.50 | Discussion | |||||||||||||
| 12.50-13.00 | Vote of Thanks | |||||||||||||
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch & Networking | |||||||||||||
Call for Proposal
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 7th SERI Update Meeting will take place at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India , on July 11th and 12th, 2025. This event is sponsored by the India Chapter of the SIGSOFT Special Interest Group of ACM and National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. SERI 2025 invites both the submission of proposals and participation.
Proposal Submission
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 as a pdf file (preferably in ACM sigconf template ).
Proposal submission, review and accept/reject notification is managed using Microsoft CMT.
Please create an account in Microsoft CMT and submit your proposal using this link: Call for Proposal
The submission follows a single-blind review process, and evaluation criteria include relevance to the workshop theme, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and the ability of the work to spark discussion among the audience of SERI.
Attending SERI
Attending SERI: You can attend SERI without proposal submission/acceptance. Please register your participation by filling out this form: Participation
| Tue 1 Jul 2025 Last date for participants registration. |
| Fri 30 May 2025 Notification of Acceptance of Proposal |
| Wed 7 May 2025 Registration Begins |
| Wed 30 Apr 2025 Deadline to submit Proposal |
Unnikrishnan CheramangalathProgram Co-Chair
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
India
Raveendra Kumar MedicherlaProgram Chair
Tata Consultancy Services
India
Snigdha AthaiyaCommittee Member
Siemens Technology Bangalore
India
Sujit Kumar ChakrabartiCommittee Member
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
India
Apurba DasCommittee Member
Sudakshina DuttaCommittee Member
Indian Institute of Technology Goa
India
Ramakrishna G.Committee Member
Ashish MishraCommittee Member
IIT Hyderabad
India
Shouvick MondalCommittee Member
IIT Gandhinagar
India
Santosh Singh RathoreCommittee Member
ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior
Umamaheswara Sharma B
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
India
Karthik VaidhyanathanCommittee Member
IIIT Hyderabad
India