Awards

Software Research Lab

Awards and recognition earned by our students, faculty, and publications over the years.

Awards are at the University of Saskatchewan unless another body is named.

Student achievements

2026Ajmain Inqiad Alam, Geddes Award (PhD), Dept. of Computer Science
Lamiya Maha, Geddes Award (MSc), Dept. of Computer Science
Joy Krishan Das, Research Excellence Award, Dept. of Computer Science
2025Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Doctoral Symposium Presentation Award, IEEE ICSME, Auckland, New Zealand
Palash Ranjan Roy, Research Excellence in STEM, Graduate Students Association (news)
2024–25Palash Ranjan Roy, Research Excellence Award (Best MSc Thesis), Dept. of Computer Science
Md Shamimur Rahman, PhD Citizenship Award, Dept. of Computer Science
Md Shamimur Rahman, Geddes Award (PhD), Dept. of Computer Science
2024Md Shamimur Rahman, Distinguished Research Award, SOAR
Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Research and Poster Award, 8th ICSAC
Debasish Chakroborti, PhD Citizenship Award, Dept. of Computer Science
2023–24Palash Ranjan Roy, Citizenship Award (MSc), Dept. of Computer Science (news)
2023Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Presentation Award, SOAR
Debasish Chakroborti, Carl McCrosky Innovation Scholarship for Graduate Studies
Debasish Chakroborti, GSA Mark Kroeker Exceptional Student Leadership Award
2020Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Research Excellence Award (PhD), Dept. of Computer Science
Saikat Mondal, Geddes Award (MSc), Dept. of Computer Science
2019Md Shamimur Rahman, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Award, Government of Saskatchewan
Debasish Chakroborti, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship (PhD)
Md Shamimur Rahman, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship (MSc)
2018Golam Mostaeen, Best MSc Thesis Award, Dept. of Computer Science
Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Geddes Award (PhD), Dept. of Computer Science
Tonny Kar, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD)
2016Golam Mostaeen, Dean’s Scholarship (MSc)
Kawser W. Nafi, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD)
2015Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD)
2013Judith Islam, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD)
Palash Ranjan Roy, CGPS 75th Anniversary Scholarship, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Palash Ranjan Roy, Student Encouragement Award, IWSC, Bogotá, Colombia

Faculty achievements

2025–26Chanchal Roy, Distinguished Graduate Mentorship Award, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
2019Chanchal Roy, New Researcher Award
Kevin Schneider et al., 20-Year Most Influential Paper Award, IEEE SCAM
2018Chanchal Roy, CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young CS Researcher Prize
Chanchal Roy & James R. Cordy, 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award, SANER’18 (WCRE 2008 paper on function clones in open-source software)
Chanchal Roy & James R. Cordy, 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award, ICPC 2018 (NICAD, ICPC 2008 paper)
Chanchal Roy, New Scientist Research Award, College of Arts and Science
2016Chanchal Roy, Excellence in Supervision Award (2015–16), Dept. of Computer Science

Publication awards

2026ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, “Carbon-Taxed Transformers: A Green Compression Pipeline for Overgrown Language Models”. Alam, Roy, Roy, Roy & Schneider, FSE 2026.
Best Paper Award, “MoEKD: Mixture-of-Experts Knowledge Distillation for Robust and High-Performing Compressed Code Models.” Awal, Rochan & Roy.
2025Distinguished Paper Award, “Why Do Developers Engage with ChatGPT in Issue-Tracker?” Das, Mondal & Roy.
2019–2024Records for these years are being updated.
2018TCSE Distinguished Paper Award Nomination (with M. M. Rahman), ICSME 2018, Madrid, Spain.
2016Excellence in Supervision Award (2015–16), Dept. of Computer Science.
Best Paper Award (with Svajlenko), SEKE 2016, Redwood City, California.
2014Best Paper Award (with Kitnab et al.), CASCON 2014, Toronto, Canada.
Best Paper Nomination Certificate, ICSME 2014.
Second Best Poster Award, CSER 2014, Edmonton, Canada.
2012Best Paper Award (with Mondal et al.), ACM SAC 2012.
2009Best Paper Award, 4th Mutation Workshop.
2008Best Poster Paper Award, Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering.