CIS Ph.D. students Yu Sun and Robert Tairas reached the final round of the ACM Student Research Competition at this year's International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009). Yu's presentation was entitled "Supporting Model Evolution through Demonstration-based Model Transformation." Robert's presentation was entitled "Centralizing Clone Group Representation and Maintenance."
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.
In addition, at this year's OOPSLA conference, Softcom members were involved in organizing workshops (Jeff Gray), participating in the Doctoral Symposium (Zekai Demirezen and Yu Sun), presenting two posters at the refactoring workshop (Ferosh Jacob and Robert Tairas), conducting two research demonstrations (Robert Tairas and Yu Sun), assisting as Student Volunteers (Zekai Demirezen, Ferosh Jacob, Qichao Liu, Yu Sun, and Robert Tairas), and moderating a panel (Jeff Gray).
