Several SCIS Computer Science faculty and students presented their research across multiple tracks and co-hosted conferences and workshops at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), held in Rio de Janeiro, April 12-18, 2026. ICSE is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to gather and discuss research results, innovations, trends, experiences and issues in the field of software engineering.
Drexel authors and participants are noted in bold.
Paper Presentations
- Mia Mohammad Imran, Robert Zita, Rahat Rizvi Rahman, Preetha Chatterjee, and Kostadin Damevski, “Toxicity Ahead: Forecasting Conversational Derailment on GitHub,” Research Track.
- Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee, Ramtin Ehsani, and Polina Iaremchuk, “Towards A Sustainable Future for Peer Review in Software Engineering”, Future of Software Engineering (FoSE) Track.
- Hongzhou Fang, Yuanfang Cai, Ewan Tempero, Rick Kazman, Yu-ChengTu, Jason Lefever, and Ernst Pisch, “A Holistic Approach to Design Understanding Through Concept Explanation,” Journal First Track.
- Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Shriya Rawal, Abdullah Al Mujahid, Mia Mohammad Imran, and Preetha Chatterjee, “Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail? An Empirical Study of Failed Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub”, Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Conference co-hosted with ICSE 2026, Mining Challenge Track.
- Humberto Cervantes, Rick Kazman, and Yuanfang Cai, “Improving LLM-assisted Code Generation through the Use of Architectural Documents and Implementation Plans,” Designing 2026 Workshop co-hosted with ICSE 2026.
Other participation
- Yuanfang Cai, PhD is serving on the ICSE Steering Committee and will be the Program Co-Chair for ICSE 2028.
- Preetha Chattejee, PhD served as a Program Committee member for the Research Track.
- Colin Gordon, PhD served as a Program Committee member for the STATIC 2026 Workshop co-located with ICSE 2026.
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