Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ISSTA 2022

Team members (from left): Mr Li Zhiming (PhD, Year 2), Mr Liu Ye (PhD, Year 4), Asst Prof Li Yi, Asst Prof Lin Shang-Wei and Prof Liu Yang.

SCSE post-graduates and faculty members have brought home two “Distinguished Paper Awards” from the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). These were among the five Distinguished Paper Awards ( https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2022) selected from the 61 accepted papers. The number of submissions to ISSTA’22 also reached a record-high of 250 papers this year. The conference was held virtually from 18 to 22 July, 2022. Details about the two award-winning papers are listed below.

• Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Statistical Type Inference
  Zhiming Li, Xiaofei Xie, Haoliang Li, Zhengzi Xu, Yi Li, and Yang Liu 
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3533767.3534411

• Finding Permission Bugs in Smart Contracts with Role Mining
  Ye Liu, Yi Li, Shang-Wei Lin, and Cyrille Artho
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3533767.3534372

SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards announcement.

ISSTA is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems.

Mr Li Zhiming is a second year PhD student, supervised by Prof Liu Yang and Asst/P Li Yi. His research interest is AI-assisted program analysis techniques. Mr Liu Ye is a fourth year PhD candidate, supervised by Asst/P Li Yi, working on smart contract security and fairness analysis.

Read more on ISSTA website: 
https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2022