DECAL at ICSE 2017

Congratulations to DECAL Lab post-doc Alums Baishakhi Ray & Abram Hindle+ Phd Alums Christian Bird and Mohammad Gharehyazie, for winning an impressive slate of Awards at ICSE 2017:  SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (Ray & Gharehyazie,  at MSR) MSR Early Career Award (Hindle) ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Research Award (Bird).

Bogdan Vasilescu goes to Carnegie-Mellon!

Bogdan Vasilescu, who first escaped the Grey skies of Eindhoven (NL)  to visit DECAL as a PhD Student, fell in love with  the  sunflower fields, friendly people, wide-open skies and abundant sunshine of Davis; he then lingered here for 2 years afterwards to do a post-doc with us. All good things come to an end; he leaves us … [Read more…]

Strong ICSE showing in 2016!

We’re delighted and deeply honored to have 5 papers in total accepted from UC Davis to the prestigious and highly competitive ICSE conference, to be held in Austin, TX! This continues our tradition of a strong presence at ICSE and FSE (the top conferences in software engineering) from UC Davis, thanks to our talented, hardworking, … [Read more…]

Strong ICSE presence

We’re delighted and deeply honored to have 5 papers in total accepted from UC Davis to the prestigious and highly competitive ICSE conference, to be held in Austin, TX!  This continues our tradition of a strong presence at ICSE from UC Davis, thanks to our talented, hardworking, and productive students,  postdocs and visitors!  

The Naturalness of Software

Software, like other forms of human expression, tends to be repetitive; this repetition can be captured in statistical models and exploited for various tasks. We lead a large, multi-institution consortium studying the application of computational NLP methods to software code. UC Davis is the lead; our partners include the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, … [Read more…]