Software Research Lab
Awards & recognition
Honours earned by our students, faculty, and publications, recognized by the university and by the international software engineering community.
| 29+ Student awards | 8+ Faculty awards | 11+ Paper awards & nominations |
Highlights
Selected honours
Full record
Student achievements
Awards are from the University of Saskatchewan unless another body is named.
| 2026 | Ajmain 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 |
| 2025 | Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Doctoral Symposium Presentation Award · IEEE ICSME, Auckland Palash Ranjan Roy, Research Excellence in STEM · Graduate Students’ Association · News ↗ |
| 2024–25 | Palash Ranjan Roy, Research Excellence Award (Best MSc Thesis) · Dept. of Computer Science Md Shamimur Rahman, PhD Citizenship Award and Geddes Award (PhD) · Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2024 | Md Shamimur Rahman, Distinguished Research Award · SOAR Palash Ranjan Roy, CGPS 75th Anniversary Scholarship · College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Research and Poster Award · 8th ICSAC Debasish Chakroborti, PhD Citizenship Award · Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2023–24 | Palash Ranjan Roy, Citizenship Award (MSc) · Dept. of Computer Science · News ↗ |
| 2023 | Palash Ranjan Roy, Student Encouragement Award · IEEE IWSC, Bogotá, Colombia Palash Ranjan Roy, Best Presentation Award · SOAR Debasish Chakroborti, Carl McCrosky Innovation Scholarship for Graduate Studies Debasish Chakroborti, Mark Kroeker Exceptional Student Leadership Award · Graduate Students’ Association |
| 2020 | Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Research Excellence Award (PhD) · Dept. of Computer Science Saikat Mondal, Geddes Award (MSc) · Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2019 | Md Shamimur Rahman, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Award · Government of Saskatchewan Md Shamimur Rahman, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship (MSc) Debasish Chakroborti, Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship (PhD) |
| 2018 | Golam 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) |
| 2016 | Golam Mostaeen, Dean’s Scholarship (MSc) Kawser W. Nafi, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD) |
| 2015 | Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD) |
| 2013 | Judith Islam, Dean’s Scholarship (PhD) |
Full record
Faculty achievements
| 2025–26 | Chanchal Roy, Distinguished Graduate Mentorship Award · College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies |
| 2019 | Chanchal Roy, New Researcher Award Kevin Schneider et al., 20-Year Most Influential Paper Award · IEEE SCAM |
| 2018 | Chanchal Roy, CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young CS Researcher Prize Chanchal Roy & James R. Cordy, 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award · SANER 2018, for the WCRE 2008 paper on function clones in open-source software Chanchal Roy & James R. Cordy, 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award · ICPC 2018, for the ICPC 2008 NiCad paper Chanchal Roy, New Scientist Research Award · College of Arts and Science |
| 2016 | Chanchal Roy, Excellence in Supervision Award (2015–16) · Dept. of Computer Science |
Full record
Publication awards
| 2026 | ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award · FSE 2026 Best Paper Award · EASE 2026 |
| 2025 | Distinguished Paper Award |
| 2019–24 | Records for these years are being updated. |
| 2018 | TCSE Distinguished Paper Award Nomination · ICSME 2018, Madrid, with M. M. Rahman |
| 2016 | Best Paper Award · SEKE 2016, Redwood City, with Svajlenko |
| 2014 | Best Paper Award · CASCON 2014, Toronto, with Kitnab et al. Best Paper Nomination · ICSME 2014 Second Best Poster Award · CSER 2014, Edmonton |
| 2012 | Best Paper Award · ACM SAC 2012, with Mondal et al. |
| 2009 | Best Paper Award · 4th Mutation Workshop |
| 2008 | Best Poster Paper Award · Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering |