This annual award is presented to individuals who have contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community. The committee considers all external nominations in the context of the nominees’ specific and general service contributions to the overall software engineering community.
Criteria that the committee considers in evaluating nominations include:
- Service to ACM SIGSOFT
- Service to the software engineering community outside of SIGSOFT
- Service to broadening participation of underrepresented groups in software engineering
- Service to students
- Length of time serving the software engineering community
- Other service contributions
Consult the main SIGSOFT Awards page for key dates, nomination and eligibility instructions, and a link to the submission portal.
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.”
- 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
- 2021 Tao Xie, Peking University, for outstanding service contributions to the software engineering community, including substantial activities on SIGSOFT history, broadening participation in software engineering, and successful chairing of technical events
- 2020 Nenad Medvidović
- 2019 Matt Dwyer
- 2018 David S. Rosenblum
- 2017 Laura Dillon
- 2016 Martin Glinz
- 2015 Bashar Nuseibeh
- 2014 Leon Osterweil
- 2013 Wilhelm Schäfer
- 2012 Alexander Wolf
- 2011 Jeff Kramer
- 2010 Mary Lou Soffa
- 2009 Stuart Zweben
- 2008 John C. Knight
- 2007 David Notkin
- 2006 Carlo Ghezzi
- 2005 Richard N. Taylor
- 2004 Will Tracz
- 2003 Axel van Lamsweerde
- 2002 Lori Clarke
- 2001 Kouichi Kishida
- 2000 Marvin Zelkowitz
- 1999 Bill Riddle
- 1998 Bruce Barnes
- 1997 Peter Neumann
- 1996 Rick Adrion
- 1995 Tony Wasserman
Committees
2025
- Lionel Briand, University of Ottawa, Canada and LERO, University of Limerick, Ireland (chair)
- Benoit Baudry, University of Montreal, Canada
- Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Jialun Cao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Paola Spoletini, Kennesaw University, USA
- Jun Sun, SMU, Singapore
- Lin Tan, Purdue University, USA
- Yang Liu, NTU, Singapore
- Andrea Zisman, Open University, UK
- Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada (SIGSOFT chair, non-voting)
- Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (SIGSOFT award chair, non-voting)
2024
- Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany (chair)
- Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy (deputy chair)
- Lionel Briand, University of Ottawa, Canada and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Katsuro Inoue, Nanzan University, Japan
- Barbara Paech, Heidelberg University, Germany
- David Shepherd, Louisiana State University, USA
- Paola Spoletini, Kennesaw State University, USA
- Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States (SIGSOFT chair, non-voting)
- David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (SIGSOFT award chair, non-voting)
2023
- Andrea Zisman, Open University, United Kingdom (chair)
- Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany (deputy chair)
- Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
- Prem Devambu, UC Davis, United States
- Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China
- Robyn Lutz, Iowa State University, United States
- Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States (SIGSOFT chair, non-voting)
- David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (SIGSOFT award chair, non-voting)
2022
- Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada (chair)
- Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
- Prem Devambu, UC Davis, United States
- Mark Harman, Facebook and UCL, United Kingdom
- Jon Whittle, CSIRO’s Data61, Australia
- Tao Xie, Peking University, China
- Andrea Zisman, Open University, United Kingdom
- Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States (SIGSOFT chair, non-voting)
- David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (SIGSOFT award chair, non-voting)
2021
- Will Tracz (chair)
- Laurie Dillon
- Mike Wing