awards 2026

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     about_us = "<p>The ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.</p>"
-    copyright = "Copyright (c) 2020 - 2025, SIGSOFT; all rights reserved."
+    copyright = "Copyright (c) 2020 - 2026, SIGSOFT; all rights reserved."
 
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-    title = "2025 SIGSOFT Awards"
+    title = "2026 SIGSOFT Awards"
     subtitle = "We would like to heartily congratulate the winners of the various ACM SIGSOFT awards:"
 
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content/awards/anger.md

@@ -26,23 +26,24 @@ This award is a unique opportunity to help promote cross-discipline research. Al
 
 ## Winners
 
-|      |                      SIGSOFT Recipients                       | SIGBED Recipients    |
-|:-----|:-------------------------------------------------------------:|          ---: |
-| 2025 |           Liu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications )            |  |
-| 2024 |      Max Camillo Eisele (Saarland University and Bosch)       |  |
-| 2022 |                                                               | Claudio Mandrioli (Lund University) |
-| 2021 |                  Sumaya Almanee (UC Irvine)                   | Akshay Gadre (Carnegie Mellon University) |
-| 2020 |                  Sumaya Almanee (UC Irvine)                   | Adeola Bannis (Carnegie Mellon University) |
-| 2019 |                         Jacob Krüger                          |      |
-| 2017 |          Ivan Ruchkin (Carnegie Mellon University)	           |      |
-| 2013 |                Reinhard Schneider (TU Munich)                 |      |
-| 2012 |                                                               |   Indranil Saha (University of California at Los Angeles)   |
-| 2011 |      Aldeida Aleti (Swinburne University of Technology)       |  Miroslav Pajic (University of Pennsylvania)|
-| 2008 |             	Basil Becker (University of Potsdam)             | Georgios Fainekos (University of Pennsylvania) |
-| 2007 |        	Stefan Henkler (University of Paderborn)  and         |  Gabor Madl (University of California, Irvine) |
-|      | 	Chunyang Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |  |
-| 2006 |                               	                               | Cesar Sanchez (Stanford University) and |
-|      |                                                               |Bernhard Egger (Seoul National University)  |
+|      |                                                                   SIGSOFT Recipients                                                                   | SIGBED Recipients    |
+|:-----|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|          ---: |
+| 2026 | Federico Formica (McMaster University)     (Nominator: Claudio Menghi (University of Bergamo (Italy) and McMaster University (Canada)) <[email protected]>) |  |
+| 2025 |                                             Liu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications )                                             |  |
+| 2024 |                                                   Max Camillo Eisele (Saarland University and Bosch)                                                   |  |
+| 2022 |                                                                                                                                                        | Claudio Mandrioli (Lund University) |
+| 2021 |                                                               Sumaya Almanee (UC Irvine)                                                               | Akshay Gadre (Carnegie Mellon University) |
+| 2020 |                                                               Sumaya Almanee (UC Irvine)                                                               | Adeola Bannis (Carnegie Mellon University) |
+| 2019 |                                                                      Jacob Krüger                                                                      |      |
+| 2017 |                                                       Ivan Ruchkin (Carnegie Mellon University)	                                                       |      |
+| 2013 |                                                             Reinhard Schneider (TU Munich)                                                             |      |
+| 2012 |                                                                                                                                                        |   Indranil Saha (University of California at Los Angeles)   |
+| 2011 |                                                   Aldeida Aleti (Swinburne University of Technology)                                                   |  Miroslav Pajic (University of Pennsylvania)|
+| 2008 |                                                         	Basil Becker (University of Potsdam)                                                          | Georgios Fainekos (University of Pennsylvania) |
+| 2007 |                                                     	Stefan Henkler (University of Paderborn)  and                                                     |  Gabor Madl (University of California, Irvine) |
+|      |                                             	Chunyang Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)                                              |  |
+| 2006 |                                                                           	                                                                            | Cesar Sanchez (Stanford University) and |
+|      |                                                                                                                                                        |Bernhard Egger (Seoul National University)  |
 
 ## Committee
 

content/awards/dissertation.md

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ nomination package PDF should _also_ include:
 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-dissertation-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
+- 2026 Zhou Yang, "Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code", Advisor/Nominator: David Lo.
 - 2025 Elizabeth Dinella, Neural Inference of Program Specifications, University of Pennsylvania, advisor: Mayur Naik.
 - 2025 Jialun Cao, Towards Automatic Testing and Fault Localization in Natural Language Processing Systems,  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, advisor: Shing-Chi Cheung
 - 2024 Bianca Trinkenreich, Understanding and Supporting Women’s Participation in Open Source Software, Northern Arizona University, advisors: Igor Steinmacher and Marco Aurelio Gerosa

content/awards/distinguishedService.md

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ Consult the [main SIGSOFT Awards page](/awards/sigsoftawards/) for key dates, no
 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-service-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
-- 2025 Mauro Pezzé, USI Università della Svizzera Italiana Lugano (Switzerland), "For service to the software engineering community for three decades, and specifically for his recent contributions to TOSEM as Editor-in-Chief." 
+- 2026 Thomas Zimmermann, University of California, Irvine, for outstanding and transformative service to the software engineering community by broadening participation and championing open science and open access. Nominated by Lin Tan, Purdue University
+- 2025 Mauro Pezzé, USI Università della Svizzera Italiana Lugano (Switzerland), for service to the software engineering community for three decades, and specifically for his recent contributions to TOSEM as Editor-in-Chief.
 - 2024  Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, for outstanding service to the software engineering community, including serving as program co-chair for all premier software engineering conferences and several other events.
 - 2023 John Grundy, Monash University, for continued outstanding service to the software engineering community, including the repeated successful organization of flagship conferences, and leadership in the Australasian research and education community
 - 2022	Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo, for sustained, outstanding service to the software engineering community and enabling a research environment in software engineering world-wide that is equitable, diverse and inclusive

content/awards/earlyCareerResearcher.md

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 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-early-career-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
+- 2026 Eunsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University), for contributions to improving the safety and robustness of software and AI-enabled systems, through software design, formal methods, and self-adaptation.
+  Nominated by: David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon University)
+- 2026 Sen Chen (Nankai University), for outstanding contributions to advancing software supply chain security through pioneering techniques and tools in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static
+   Application Security Testing (SAST). Nominated by: Jun Sun (Singapore Management University)
 - 2025  Jie Zhang, King's College London, for pioneering contributions to software engineering for AI, significantly shaping and transforming the field of AI system testing.
 - 2024  Kevin Moran, University of Central Florida, for outstanding contributions to improving the quality of mobile applications, through software testing, deep learning, and user interface development.
 - 2023  Chunyang Chen, Monash University, for outstanding contributions to the study of intelligent software development automation including automated mobile application development, software testing, migration and accessibility

content/awards/impactPaper.md

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Consult the [main SIGSOFT Awards page](/awards/sigsoftawards/) for key dates, no
 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-impact-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
+- 2026 Jacek Śliwerski, Thomas Zimmermann, and Andreas Zeller. When do changes induce fixes?. (MSR 2005)
+  "For introducing the SZZ algorithm, a foundational technique that enabled a new generation of empirical studies, tools, and techniques for understanding and improving software quality."
+  Nominated by Chris Bird, Microsoft.
 - 2025 Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird. Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '13). "For providing foundational understanding of modern code review, advancing the state of practice, and charting the course of research in code review through empirical investigations."
 - 2024 Marcel Bruch, Martin Monperrus, and Mira Mezini. Learning from Examples to Improve Code Completion Systems. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and 12th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aug 2009). "For pioneering the use of machine learning to assist developers in generating code snippets, paving the way for today’s intelligent code assistance tools."
 - 2023 Gordon Fraser, and Andrea Arcuri. EvoSuite: Automatic Test Suite Generation for Object-Oriented Software. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and 13th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2011, Szeged, Hungary, Sep 2011). "For building EvoSuite, a search-based software testing tool which has a significant community around it."

content/awards/influentialEducator.md

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 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-educator-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
+- 2026 Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, for pioneering and sustaining innovative approaches to experiential learning, collaborative and inclusive software engineering education across time zones, cultural boundaries, and diverse perspectives. Nominated by Neil Ernst, University of Victoria.
 - 2025  Andreas Zeller, CISPA and Saarland University, for significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.
 - 2024  Martin Robillard, McGill University, for significant contributions to hands-on software design education, including a textbook and a learner-focused software modeling tool.
 - 2023  Tao Xie, Peking University, China, for significant contributions in mentoring of graduate students and junior researchers, broadening participation of underrepresented groups in software engineering/computing, and innovation in educational tooling

content/awards/outstandingResearch.md

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 If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-research-award (at) acm (dot) org.
 
 ## Winners
+- 2026 Tao Xie, Peking University/Fudan University, for outstanding research contributions on software testing and software analytics that have broadly impacted industrial practices. Nominated by Lu Zhang, Peking University.
 - 2025  Martin Rinard, MIT, for fundamental contributions in pioneering the new fields of program repair and approximate computing.
 - 2024  Tsong Yueh Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, for contributions to software testing through the invention and development of metamorphic testing.
 - 2023  Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, for pioneering contributions to recommenders for software engineering and program comprehension that have impacted both theory and practice

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+text: "“For pioneering and sustaining innovative approaches to experiential learning, collaborative and inclusive software engineering education across time zones, cultural boundaries, and diverse perspectives.”"
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+text: "“For introducing the SZZ algorithm, a foundational technique that enabled a new generation of empirical studies, tools, and techniques for understanding and improving software quality.”"
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-text: "“For pioneering contributions to software engineering for AI, significantly shaping and transforming the field of AI system testing.”"
-name: "Jie Zhang"
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+name: "Eunsuk Kang"
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-text: "For the PhD thesis “Neural Inference of Program Specifications”"
-name: "Elizabeth Dinella"
-position: "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award"
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+text: "“For outstanding contributions to advancing software supply chain security through pioneering techniques and tools in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST).”"
+name: "Sen Chen"
+position: "Early Career Researcher Award"
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-name: "Liu Wang"
-position: "Frank Anger Memorial"
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+text: "For the PhD thesis “Towards Robust, Secure, and Privacy-Aware Large Language Models of Code”"
+name: "Zhou Yang"
+position: "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award"
+avatar: "img/awards-2026/Zhou.jpeg"

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-text: "For the PhD thesis “Towards Automatic Testing and Fault Localization in Natural Language Processing Systems”"
-name: "Jialun Cao"
-position: "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award"
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+text: ""
+name: "Federico Formica"
+position: "Frank Anger Memorial"
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