Education is vital to the advancement of the research and practice of Software Engineering. Yet, the contributions of an educator often go unnoticed, except perhaps by those closest to the educator. The SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award is presented annually to an educator or educators who have made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his or her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher (in education or learning), author, and/or policy maker. The award may be made to multiple collaborators for joint contributions, such as a co-authored text book.
The award recipients share a $1000 honorarium, and each recipient receives a plaque engraved with their name and signed by the chair of SIGSOFT. The award is presented by the SIGSOFT chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. Each award recipient also receives support for travel to ICSE up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration for ICSE.
To submit a nomination for the award, please use the awards nomination portal. Please note that:
The selection committee shall have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented. If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-educator-award (at) acm (dot) org.
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 |
2022 | Miryung Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, for outstanding achievements in undergraduate and graduate mentoring with an emphasis on research excellence in software engineering, diversity, and inclusion |
2021 | Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, for his life-long foundational contributions to software engineering education and his success in connecting generations of educators and researchers from Japan with the international community |
2020 | Greg Wilson |
2019 | Ahmed E. Hassan |
2018 | Shriram Krishnamurthi, for his contributions to the advancement of the research and practice of software engineering |
2017 | Bertrand Meyer, for contributions to the advancement of the research and practice of software engineering |
2016 | Lori Pollock, for mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, innovation in software engineering education, and educational research |
2015 | Barbara Ryder, for significant contributions in software engineering education, graduate student and faculty mentoring and efforts to improve the representation of women in the field |
2014 | Mary Lou Soffa, for a sustained record of mentoring of women at all ranks in the field of computing, especially software engineering |
2013 | Tony Wasserman, for early contributions to software engineering curriculum development and extensive academic and professional education in software engineering methods, tools, and management |
2012 | Mehdi Jazayeri, for significant and lasting contributions to software engineering and computer science education and David Notkin, for tremendous impact in graduate-level education, in mentoring junior researchers, and in nurturing future researchers |
2011 | Ian Sommerville, for his contribution to the education of successive generations of Software Engineers internationally, through his writings, his teaching, and his student mentoring |
2010 | Leon J. Osterweil, for pioneering software engineering as an academic discipline, contributions to software engineering scholarship and excellence through graduate education, and mentoring of new software engineering faculty |
2009 | Laurie Williams, for significant and lasting contributions to software engineering and computer science education and Nico Habermann (posthumously), for significant and lasting contributions to the field of software engineering as a teacher and mentor |