Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.
Shin Hwei Tan, Associate Professor (Gina Cody Research Chair)
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University
There are growing interests over various ethical issues (e.g., unclear licensing, privacy, fairness, and environment impact) in the process of software development. In this talk, I will introduce our work on ethically sourced code generation that recently won ICSE26 Distinguished Paper Award. I will introduce the novel notion of Ethically Sourced Code Generation (ES-CodeGen), which refers to managing all processes involved in code generation model development from data collection to post-deployment via ethical and sustainable practices. The concept of ES-CodeGen draws upon insights gained from our multi-disciplinary literature review and survey with experienced developers. Our study identifies several findings and key challenges for future research towards ethically sourced code generation. The talk will end with a discussion that calls for new idea and novel techniques that aim to enhance various dimensions of ethically sourced code generation with the hope of getting a step closer to the golden standard of ES-CodeGen.
Bio: Shin Hwei Tan is an Associate Professor (Gina Cody Research Chair) in Concordia University. Before moving to Concordia University, she was an Assistant Professor in Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. She obtained her PhD degree from National University of Singapore and her B.S (Hons) and MSc degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her main research interests are in automated program repair, software testing and open-source development. She is an Associate Editor for TOSEM and the Guest Editors-in-Chief for the New Frontier in Software Engineering track in TOSEM. She has also served as PCs for top-tier software engineering conferences, where she won 3 best reviewers award (FSE 2020, ASE 2020, ICSE 2022 NIER-track). She is also the general chair of FSE26 which will be held in Concordia University. She recently won the 2025 ACM-W Rising Star Award, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award for ICSE 2025, ICSE 2026 and IEEE Distinguished Paper Award for ICST 2025.