April 25-26, 2023: NWIT Lightning Talks

People have been writing software for over seventy years, and studying it for nearly as long, but most programmers don't know what researchers have discovered, and most researchers aren't looking at the problems developers would most like solved.

We can do better. On Tuesday, April 25, and Wednesday, April 26, It Will Never Work in Theory is offering its third live event: a set of lightning talks from leading researchers on immediate, actionable results from their work. Our speakers will share what we know about these questions and why we believe it's true.

Each session will have 12 speakers in 3 hours with plenty of time for questions. To ensure these presentations are accessible to as many people as possible, the sessions are offered at the times shown below; tickets are CAD$50 for people in affluent countries and CAD$20 elsewhere, and are good for both sessions. To purchase a ticket, please go to EventBrite; all of the money raised will go to support Books for Africa.

Speakers

Gina Bai: "How novice testers perceive and perform unit testing." Gina is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University in the United States.
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Marcel Böhme: "On the surprising efficiency and exponential cost of fuzzing." Marcel leads the Software Security at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Germany.
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John Businge: "Patched clones and missed patches among the variants of a software family." John is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the United States.
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Preetha Chatterjee: "Emotion awareness in software engineering." Preetha is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University in the United States.
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Zadia Codabux: "Technical debt in R packages." Zadia is an Assistance Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
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Prem Devanbu: "Leveraging the bimodality of software." Prem is a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science at the University of California Davis in the United States.
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Rashina Hoda: "You asked for it: making sense of user feedback." Rashina is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering and Deputy Director of the HumaniSE lab at Monash University in Australia.
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Elvan Kula: "Understanding and predicting delays in large-scale software development." Elvan is chapter lead of Analytics and AI Research at ING and a doctoral candidate at TU Delft.
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Raula Kula: "What do we know about libraries and their dependencies?" Raula is an Assistant Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan.
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Thomas LaToza: "Programming strategically." Thomas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University in the United States.
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Carol Lee: "Developer thriving: why developers deserve more than satisfaction." Carol is a senior research scientist at Pluralsight Flow's Developer Success Lab in the United States.
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Sherlock Licorish: "Can genetic improvement enhance online code snippets?" Sherlock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago.
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Lauren Margulieux: "Things software developers should learn about learning." Lauren is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University.
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Ariana Mirian: "The theory and practice of enterprise vulnerability remediation." Ariana is a security researcher at the University of California San Diego in the United States.
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Christian Newman: "Crafting strong identifier naming practices." Christian is assistant faculty in the Software Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Gustavo Pinto: "Cognitive-driven development helps software teams to keep code units under the limit." Gustavo is Head of Research at Zup Innovation and Assistant Professor at Federal University of Pará in Brazil.
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Kai Presler-Marshall: "Teaching collaborative skills to undergraduate software engineering students." Kai completed his PhD at North Carolina State University and now teaches computer science at Bowdoin College in Maine.
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Alexander Serebrenik: "Getting old: employability and experiences of veteran software developers." Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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Allison Sullivan: "Proofreading the proofreader: the benefits of unit tests for software models." Allison is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Ethel Tshukudu: "Understanding conceptual transfer in students learning new programming languages." Ethel is a Lecturer at the University of Botswana and a Founder and Director of CSEdBotswana.
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Andreas Zeller: "How to create the nastiest test inputs ever." Andreas is faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Professor of Software Engineering at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Shurui Zhou: "Understanding the sustainability challenges for building open-source scientific software." Shurui is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada.
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