Outstanding Research Award

This award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.

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 announced by the SIGSOFT chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. The award recipients are invited to give a keynote presentation at the ICSE conference in the year in which the award is made. Each award recipient also receives travel support up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration to attend the ICSE conference.

The selection committee solicits nominations from the software engineering community in a variety of ways including announcements in SIGSOFT's newsletter, Software Engineering Notes, and postings on appropriate newsgroups and websites. The committee considers all external nominations in the context of the nominees' research contributions to software engineering. The selection committee shall also have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented.

To submit a nomination for the award, please use the awards nomination portal. Please note that:

• An intent to nominate must be submitted in the nomination system by October 16, 2023. The intent submission is very lightweight and only requires: (1) full name(s) and affiliation(s) of the nominee(s), (2) contact information of the nominator, and (3) some metadata. If no intent is received by the deadline, the nomination will be deemed late and not considered for this round of award selection.
• A single PDF containing the nomination package must be submitted through the portal to complete the submission by October 30, 2023. The PDF should contain the following:
  1. Full name(s) and affiliation(s) of the nominee(s)
  2. Proposed citation (up to 25 words)
  3. Succinct description of why the nominee(s) is well-qualified for the award (100-250 words)
  4. Detailed nomination statement (no length limit, but please be reasonable)
  5. Up to three support letters (200-300 words will be sufficient for each support letter, although longer statements of support are of course welcome). Each support letter must include the following sentence: "To the best of my knowledge, the candidate I am endorsing has not committed any action that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM's Core Values.

If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-research-award (at) acm (dot) org.

Winners

Committee

2024

• Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany (chair)
• Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, United States (non-voting)
• David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (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 (non-voting)
• David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (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 (non-voting)
• David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore (non-voting)

2021

• Marsha Chechik (Chair)
• Mark Harman
• Jane Cleland-Huang
• Massimiliano Di Penta