SIGSOFT provides financial support to summer or winter schools focused on all aspects of software engineering across the world. Our goal is to promote education, foster academic growth, and improve access to quality learning experiences.
2026-27 Program Committee
- Chair: Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Chair: Yuan Tian, Queen’s University, Canada
- Alexander Serebrenik
- Bianca Trinkenreich
- Chetan Arora
- Chunyang Chen
- Fabian Gilson
- Fabio Petrillo
- Filipe Cogo
- Gemma Catolino
- Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur
- Gregorio Robles
- Grischa Liebel
- Igor Steinmacher
- Italo Santos
- Jiakun Liu
- Kiev Gama
- Manuel Rigger
- Michel Chaudron
- Raula Gaikovina Kula
- Sarah Nadi
- Shurui Zhou
- Song Wang
- Sonja Hyrynsalmi
- Sridhar Chimalakonda
- Tien N. Nguyen
- Weiyi Shang
- Yutaro Kashiwa
- David Lo
2026-27: 16 schools funded from 31 submissions
| 2026-2027 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| OzSE 2027: Preparing the Next Generation of Software Engineers in the Age of AI | Neelofar Neelofar, Craig Anslow, Mojtaba Shahin, Kla Tantithamthavorn, Chetan Arora |
| 5th RiSE Summer School (RiSS) on Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) | Eduardo Almeida |
| Second African Digital Humanism Summer School 2026 | Hans Akkermans, Jeffrey Kramer |
| RoME 2027: Robotic Mission Engineering Summer School | Ricardo Diniz Caldas, Patrizio Pelliccione, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, Nico Hochgeschwender, Michael Fisher |
| International Summer School on AI Engineering (AIEng 2027) | Paulo Henrique Maia, Andrea Zisman, Amel Bennaceur, Leonardo Sousa, Filipe Roseiro Cogo |
| SIGSOFT Vietnam Winter Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering | Tien N. Nguyen, Vu Nguyen |
| 6th LATAM School - The Latin American School in Software Engineering Research | Fernanda Madeiral, Lincoln Rocha, Paulo Meirelles |
| African Winter School on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (ASEAI 2026) | Ali Ouni, Mohammed Sayagh, Noureddine Kerzazi, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer |
| Beyond Prompt and Harness Engineering: Software Engineering Foundations for Trustworthy AI Systems | Xi Zheng, Hoa Khanh Dam, Thong (James) Hoang, Hong Jin Kang, Guoxin Su, Xiao Cheng, Yongqiang Tian |
| Spring School on Software Engineering: From Architecture to AI | Supun Wijayakoon, Michel Chaudron, Jayani Samaraweera |
| Fourth Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments | Alessandro Margara, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Carlos Baquero, Ragnar Mogk, Annette Bieniusa |
| Postgraduate School on Formal Methods for Mission-Critical Software | Pablo Castro, Carlos Lopez Pombo |
| AI-Infused Software Engineering (AISE) - Research and Practice | Meenakshi D’Souza, Santosh Singh Rathore, Saurabh Tiwari, Chetan Arora, Alpana Dubey, Sridhar Chimalakonda |
| BRIDGES Summer School in The South Pacific: Building a Digital Apps Ecosystem through AI Agentic Technologies | Raula Gaikovina Kula, Youmei Fan, Benson Mirou |
| Human-AI Collaboration in Software Engineering | April Wang, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz |
| 3rd School of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering | Lilian Passos Scatalon, Maria Lydia Fioravanti, Pedro Henrique Dias Valle, Leo Natan Paschoal |
Previous schools
2025-26 Program Committee
- Chair: Christoph Treude, ctreude@smu.edu.sg, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Chair: Yuan Tian, y.tian@queensu.ca, Queen’s University, Canada
- Bianca Trinkenreich, bianca.trinkenreich@colostate.edu, Colorado State University, USA
- Chetan Arora, chetan.arora@monash.edu, Monash University, Australia
- Fabian Gilson, fabian.gilson@canterbury.ac.nz, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Fabio Petrillo, fabio.petrillo@etsmtl.ca, École de Technologie Supérieur, Canada
- Gemma Catolino, gcatolino@unisa.it, University of Salerno, Italy
- Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, gopikrishnanrajbahadur@gmail.com, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
- Igor Steinmacher, igor.steinmacher@nau.edu, Northern Arizona University, USA
- Manuel Rigger, rigger@nus.edu.sg, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Michel Chaudron, m.r.v.chaudron@tue.nl, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Nicole Novielli, nicole.novielli@uniba.it, University of Bari, Italy
- Raula Gaikovina Kula, raula-k@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Japan
- Sarah Nadi, sarah.nadi@nyu.edu, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Xin Peng, pengxin@fudan.edu.cn, Fudan University, China
- Yingfei Xiong, xiongyf@pku.edu.cn, Peking University, China
2025-26: 11 schools funded. 80K USD
2024-25: 13 schools funded. 81K USD
| 2024-2025 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| ICT4Dev summer school, Mozambique | Luciano Baresi |
| SDR winter school, Namibia | Ari Happonen |
| Argentinian Summer School on Informatics RIO, Argentina | Sebastian Uchitel |
| International Summer School on Specifications and Analysis for Software Engineers, CMU | Eunsuk Kang and Shahar Maoz |
| Robotic Mission Engineering (RoME), Brazil | Genaina Nunes Rodrigues |
| Summer School for Software Engineering in Robotics, Brussels | Darko Bozhinoski |
| International Software Architecture Ph.D School, Netherlands | |
| Summer School on Emo-aware Persuasive Software Systems, Lima, Peru | |
| Green Software Engineering Winter School, Nigeria | |
| UMBC Ethical Software Lab Workshop, Baltimore MD | Muhammad Samarah |
2023 - 2024: 13 schools funded. 80K USD
| 2023-2024 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| Singapore Summer School on Fuzz Testing | Abhik Roychoudhury |
| SIESTA 2023 - 3rd International Software Engineering Summer School, Switzerland | Roberto Minelli |
| 20th International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering, New Orleans | Jeffrey Carver |
| Summer School on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Bogota, Colombia | Esteban Parra Rodriguez, |
| Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS), Australia | John Grundy |
| The ICTAC 2023 Training School on Applied Formal Methods, Peru | Silvia Lezeth Tapia Tarifa |
| 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development, Montreal, Canada | Yann-Gael Gueheneuc |
| Robotic Mission Engineering (RoME) - A Software Engineering for Robotics Summer School, Brazil | Genaina Nunes Rodrigues |
| International Summer School on Training and Research on Testing, Bergamo, Italy | Angelo Gargantini |
| Summer School for Software Engineering in Robotics, Brussels, Belgium | Darko Bozhinoski |
| ICT4DEV Summer School on Software Engineering, Mozambique | Luciano Baresi |
| Summer School on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Software Engineering (AIT4SE), Montreal, Canada | Tien Nguyen |
| Winter School on Scoping Empirical Studies in Software Engineering, Brazil | Lilian Passos Scatalon |