Software Research Lab

The remarkable moment when Dr. Chanchal Roy was receiving the CS-Can/Info-Can outstanding young computer science researcher award!

The software research team with family in the SSPP banquet.

It is the week of 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). This Year ICSE is organized at the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada. From SRLab-USASK, the participants at ICSE and its co-hosted conferences are: 1. Masud Rahman (Doctoral Symposium) 2. Saikat Mondal (MSR) 3. Rodrigo Fernandes (ICPC)... We wish them the best of luck and hope they will strengthen the bridge between SRLab-USASK with SE research community.

Congratulations! to Mashrafi Iqra. We are pleased to share a piece of great news with everyone that Mashrafi got a 16-month Internship at #Pivot_Subscription as a Software Developer Intern from May 2019. In this event, he thanked Dr. Chanchal Roy for giving him the opportunity to work as a Summer Research student with University of Saskatchewan Summer Research Award under Dr. Roy's close supervision last summer. He also praised Golam Mostaeen and Rayhaan Ferdous, Graduate Researchers of SR Lab, for guiding him while he was working in the lab last Summer. We wish him good luck.

Congratulations! to Golam Mostaeen, Dr. Banani Roy, Dr. Chanchal Roy, and Dr. Kevin Schneider for the acceptance of their paper, "Designing for Real-Time Groupware Systems to Support Complex Scientific Data Analysis" in #PACMHCI (EICS 2019). #EICS 2019 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques, and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. #Summary_of_the_work... Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMSs) has gained much popularity in recent years in accelerating the specification, execution, visualization, and monitoring of data-intensive tasks. Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, no existing SWfMSs directly support collaboration. Data is increasing in complexity, dimensionality, and volume, and the efficient analysis of the data often goes beyond the realm of an individual and requires collaboration with multiple researchers from varying domains. In this paper, the authors propose a groupware system architecture for data analysis that in addition to supporting collaboration, also incorporates features from SWfMSs to support modern data analysis processes. As a proof of concept of the proposed architecture, they develop and present SciWorCS - a groupware system for scientific data analysis. Authors present several real-world use-cases including collaborative software repository analysis and bioinformatics data analysis. The experiments evaluating the proposed system shows promising results. Their user study in the domain of bio-informatics shows that SCiWorCS can leverage real-world data analysis tasks by supporting real-time collaboration among users.

The poor clone guy, who is even confused with the clones of himself! Yes, he is one of the top clone researchers and mentor of Sofware Research Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Chanchal Roy. Dr. Roy was presented with a 2019 New Researcher Award from the University of Saskatchewan (USASK) on May 3, 2019. This is the fifth major recognition within a year! He is very humbled and thankful to receive the USask New Researcher Award: the university's top honor for faculty rese...archers early in their careers. He thanked all of his hardworking students, beloved family members and friends, international peers, nominators and referees, and also his colleagues so very much. We congratulate him and wish his grand success in the future!