December 3–4, 2025 · All times Saskatoon (CST)
Day 1 · Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025
02:15 PM – 02:30 PM
Registration and Welcoming
02:30 PM – 02:50 PM
Opening Remarks
02:50 PM – 03:15 PM
Compiled Presentation Video
03:20 PM – 05:15 PM
Presentation Session
03:20 PM – 03:35 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 1 - SmartPredict: A Framework for Fine-Grained Bug Handling Leveraging LLMs
Authors: P. Eslamloo, B. Roy
03:35 PM – 03:50 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 2 - An Improved Localization of Visual Bugs Leveraging Agentic AI with Information Retrieval
Authors: S. Yeasmin, C. Roy, K. Schneider, M. Rahman, B. Yang
03:50 PM – 04:05 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 3 - Investigating Open Science Practices in Software Engineering Research
Authors: A. Muttakin, S. Mondal, C. Roy
04:05 PM – 04:15 PM · 10 minutes
Coffee Break
04:15 PM – 04:30 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 4 - Models from Trajectories: A novel approach to guiding Web Agents through long-horizon tasks
Authors: A. Ianta, E. Stroulia
04:30 PM – 04:45 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 5 - Carbon-Taxed Transformers: A Green Compression Pipeline
Authors: A. Alam, P. Roy
04:45 PM – 05:00 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 6 - Investigating the Understandability of Review Comments on Code Change Requests
Authors: M. Rahman
05:00 PM – 05:15 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 7 - An Empirical Study of Algorithm-Based Pipeline for LLM Code Translation
Authors: S. Dipto, S. Mondal, C. Roy
05:30 PM – 06:00 PM
Women Cafe and Photo Session
Host: Dr. Banani Roy
Special Guest — Dr. Julita Vassileva
06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Reception & Entertainment
Host: Palash Roy
07:00 PM – 08:00 PM
Keynote Session
Host: Dr. Kevin Schneider
08:15 PM – 08:30 PM
Closing & Photo Session
Day 2 begins below
Day 2 · Thursday, Dec 4, 2025
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM
Registration and Welcoming
09:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Session
Host: Dr. Banani Roy
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Presentation Session
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM · 15 minutes
Presentation 8 - CoScoreX: A Contextual and Contrastive Framework for Stable Post-hoc Explanations in Software Defect Prediction
Authors: S. Roy, B. Roy, C. Roy
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM · 15 minutes
Presentation 9 - An Empirical Investigation on the Challenges in Scientific Workflow Systems Development
Authors: K. Alam
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM · 15 minutes
Presentation 10 - A Metamorphic Testing Perspective on Knowledge Distillation for Language Models of Code: Does the Student Deeply Mimic the Teacher?
Authors: M. Awal
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 11 - EditEx: Automatic Prediction of Rejected Edits in Stack Overflow
Authors: S. Mondal, G. Uddin, C. Roy
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM · 15 minutes
Presentation 12 - Do Automatic Comment Generation Techniques Fall Short? Exploring the Influence of Method Dependencies on Code Understanding
Authors: M. BILLAH, M. Rahman, B. Roy
12:15 PM – 01:00 PM
Photo & Lunch
01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Poster Session
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Keynote Session
Host: Dr. Chanchal Roy
03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Voting for Papers, Judging & Networking
03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel Speakers:
- Vendasta
- Siemens
- Calian
- AgExchange Group
- Push Interactions
- International Office USask
04:30 PM – 04:45 PM
Special Guest
Dr. Ian Stavness
Professor & Department Head of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Professor & Department Head of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Chief Guest
Dr. Baljit Singh
Vice-President of Research, University of Saskatchewan
Vice-President of Research, University of Saskatchewan
04:45 PM – 05:30 PM
Award Ceremony, Networking & Closing