AI4SE publications

1. Authors anonymized for review. ATP: the Agentic Transfer Protocol. Submitted to the NeurIPS Workshop on Foundations of Agentic Systems Theory (FAST), 2026
2. Ziyou Li, Răzvan Mihai Popescu, and Maliheh Izadi. Silent Reliance or Diligent Review? Human-Agent Engagement and Interaction Patterns in GitHub. Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs), co-located with ICSE, 2026
3. Ali Asgari, Mitchell Olsthoorn, and Annibale Panichella. Test Case Selection for Deep Neural Networks: A Replication Study on LLMs for Code. Accepted at the 35th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2026
4. Milan de Koning, Ali Asgari, Pouria Derakhshanfar, and Annibale Panichella. A Metamorphic Testing Approach to Diagnosing Memorization in LLM-Based Program Repair. The 26th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2026
5. Nadine Kuo, Agnia Sergeyuk, Valerie Chen, and Maliheh Izadi. Developer Interaction Patterns with Proactive AI: A Five-Day Field Study. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026
6. Agnia Sergeyuk, Ilya Zakharov, Ekaterina Koshchenko, and Maliheh Izadi. Human-AI Experience in Integrated Development Environments: A Systematic Literature Review. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31, Article 55, 2026
7. Agnia Sergeyuk, Ekaterina Koshchenko, Ilya Zakharov, Timofey Bryksin, and Maliheh Izadi. Developer Needs and Feasible Features for AI Assistants in IDEs. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE — Software Engineering in Practice), 2026
8. Roham Koohestani, Philippe de Bekker, Begüm Koç, and Maliheh Izadi. Benchmarking AI Models in Software Engineering: A Review, Search Tool, and Unified Approach for Elevating Benchmark Quality. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 52(2); journal-first presentation at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
9. Ali Asgari, Annibale Panichella, Pouria Derakhshanfar, and Mitchell Olsthoorn. What Challenges Do Developers Face in AI Agent Systems? An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow & GitHub Issues. Accepted in the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2026
10. Daniele Cipollone, Sergey Titov, Maliheh Izadi, Egor Bogomolov, and Arie van Deursen. LibEvoBench: Probing Temporal Knowledge Stratification in Code Generation Models. Deep Learning for Code Workshop (DL4Code), co-located with the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
11. Egor Bogomolov and Yaroslav Zharov. Towards Evaluation of Implicit Software World Models in Coding LLMs. Deep Learning for Code Workshop (DL4Code), co-located with the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
12. Zahra Seyedghorban, Egor Klimov, Arie van Deursen, Annibale Panichella, and Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan. Observability and Fault Injection for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems in Software Engineering. IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST — Testing Tools and Data Showcase), 2026
13. Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, and Gosia Migut. ANVIL: Analogies and Videos for Lecturers. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED — Tool contribution), 2026
14. Yuri Noviello, Naaz Sibia, Anastasiia Birillo, Thomas Overklift Vaupel Klein, Michael Liut, and Gosia Migut. AI-Generated Traces for Novice Programmers: Learning Effects and Learner Differences in a Multi-Institutional Study. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2026
15. Roham Koohestani, Ateş Görpelioğlu, Egor Klimov, Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, and Maliheh Izadi. TriCEGAR: A Trace-Driven Abstraction Mechanism for Agentic AI. arXiv preprint, 2026
16. Roham Koohestani, Ziyou Li, Anton Podkopaev, and Maliheh Izadi. Are Agents Probabilistic Automata? A Trace-Based, Memory-Constrained Theory of Agentic AI. arXiv preprint, revised; resubmitted to Formal Aspects of Computing (FAC), 2026
17. Anastasiia Birillo, Hieke Keuning, Gosia Migut, Katsiaryna Dzialets, and Yaroslav Golubev. Creating in-IDE Programming Courses. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS — Tutorial 104), 2025
18. Roham Koohestani. AgentGuard: Runtime Verification of AI Agents. First International Workshop on Autonomous Agents in Software Engineering (AgenticSE Workshop), co-located with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2025
19. Ziyou Li, Agnia Sergeyuk, and Maliheh Izadi. Prompt-with-Me: in-IDE Structured Prompt Management for LLM-Driven Software Engineering. 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE — Industry Showcase), 2025
20. Daniele Cipollone, Egor Bogomolov, Arie van Deursen, and Maliheh Izadi. TreeRanker: Fast and Model-agnostic Ranking System for Code Suggestions in IDEs. 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE — Industry Showcase), 2025
21. Ali Asgari, Milan de Koning, Pouria Derakhshanfar, and Annibale Panichella. Metamorphic Testing of Deep Code Models: A Systematic Literature Review. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
22. Mohammad Mahdi Sayyadnejad, Ali Asgari, Ashkan Sami, and Hooman Tahayori. Exploring the black box: analysing explainable AI challenges and best practices through stack exchange discussions. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 30, Article 176; journal-first presentation at ICSE 2026, 2025
23. Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, and Gosia Migut. Multimodal Analogy Generation in Programming Education. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Volume 2 (ITiCSE — Poster contribution), 2025
24. Yuri Noviello. Designing and Evaluating AI-Generated Multimodal Analogy-Based Explanations. 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED — Doctoral Consortium), 2025
25. Mitchell Olsthoorn. Improving the Comprehensibility of Generated Test Suites Using Test Case Clustering. 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST — Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results Track), 2025
26. Azat Abdullin, Pouria Derakhshanfar, and Annibale Panichella. Test Wars: A Comparative Study of SBST, Symbolic Execution, and LLM-Based Approaches to Unit Test Generation. 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST — Research Papers Track), 2025
27. Ilya Zakharov, Liudmila Piatnitckaia, Anastasiia Birillo, Agnia Sergeyuk, and Maliheh Izadi. When People Come First, A Human-Centered Approach to Computer Science Education. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE — Panel contribution), 2025
28. Ziyou Li and Maliheh Izadi. Enhancing Human-IDE Interaction in the SDLC using LLM-based Mediator Agents. First International Workshop on AI-Augmented SDLC (AI-SDLC Workshop), co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025
29. Ziyou Li. Mediating between Human Programmers and Integrated Development Environments using LLM-based Agents. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Doctoral Symposium), 2025
30. Daniele Cipollone. Enhancing Large Language Model Integration in Integrated Development Environments. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Doctoral Symposium), 2025
31. Roham Koohestani and Maliheh Izadi. HyperSeq: A Hyper-Adaptive Representation for Predictive Sequencing of States. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Ideas, Visions and Reflections), 2025
32. Andrei-Cristian Ionescu, Sergey Titov, and Maliheh Izadi. A Multi-agent Onboarding Assistant based on Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Chain-of-Thought. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Demonstration), 2025
33. Annibale Panichella. Metamorphic-Based Many-Objective Distillation of LLMs for Code-related Tasks. 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE — Research Track), 2025
34. Roham Koohestani and Maliheh Izadi. Rethinking IDE Customization for Enhanced HAX: A Hyperdimensional Perspective. Second Workshop on Integrated Development Environments (IDE Workshop), co-located with ICSE, 2025
35. Bob Brockbernd, Nikita Koval, Arie van Deursen, and Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan. Understanding Concurrency Bugs in Real-World Programs with Kotlin Coroutines. 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), 2024
36. Egor Bogomolov, Aleksandra Eliseeva, Timur Galimzyanov, Evgeniy Glukhov, Anton Shapkin, Maria Tigina, Yaroslav Golubev, Alexander Kovrigin, Arie van Deursen, Maliheh Izadi, and Timofey Bryksin. Long Code Arena: a Set of Benchmarks for Long-Context Code Models. arXiv preprint, 2024
37. Aral de Moor, Arie van Deursen, and Maliheh Izadi. A Transformer-Based Approach for Smart Invocation of Automatic Code Completion. First ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software (AIWare), co-located with FSE; ACM Distinguished Paper Award, 2024
38. Agnia Sergeyuk, Sergey Titov, and Maliheh Izadi. In-IDE Human-AI Experience in the Era of Large Language Models: A Literature Review. First Workshop on Integrated Development Environments (IDE Workshop), co-located with ICSE, 2024
39. Arkadii Sapozhnikov, Mitchell Olsthoorn, Annibale Panichella, V. V. Kovalenko, and Pouria Derakhshanfar. TestSpark: IntelliJ IDEA's Ultimate Test Generation Companion. 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Companion Proceedings (ICSE Companion — Tool Demonstration), 2024
40. Calin Georgescu, Mitchell Olsthoorn, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Marat Akhin, and Annibale Panichella. Evolutionary Generative Fuzzing for Differential Testing of the Kotlin Compiler. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Industry Track), 2024