We would like to heartily congratulate the winners of the various ACM SIGSOFT awards:

• “For fundamental contributions in pioneering the new fields of program repair and approximate computing.”

  

  Martin Rinard

  Outstanding Research Award

• “For outstanding service to the software engineering community, including serving as program co-chair for all premier software engineering conferences and several other events.”

  

  Mauro Pezzé

  Distinguished Service Award

• “For significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.”

  

  Andreas Zeller

  Influential Educator Award

• “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.”

  

  Alberto Bacchelli

  Impact Paper Award

• “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.”

  

  Christian Bird

  Impact Paper Award

• “For pioneering the use of machine learning to assist developers in generating code snippets, paving the way for today’s intelligent code assistance tools.”

  

  Mira Mezini

  Impact Paper Award

• “For pioneering contributions to software engineering for AI, significantly shaping and transforming the field of AI system testing.”

  

  Jie Zhang

  Early Career Researcher Award

• For the PhD thesis “Neural Inference of Program Specifications”

  

  Elizabeth Dinella

  Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

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  Liu Wang

  Frank Anger Memorial

• For the PhD thesis “Towards Automatic Testing and Fault Localization in Natural Language Processing Systems”

  

  Jialun Cao

  Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award