Sharif Ahmed


🚨 Recent Updates

  1. 🗞️ Our paper got accepted to PASC 2026 in Bern, Switzerland 🇨🇭
  2. 🎤 Served as Session Chair for the CS Teachers II at ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Feb 2026, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸
  3. 👨‍🔬 Served as a Program Committee member for ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2026, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸
  4. 👨‍🔬 Served as a Program Committee member for ACL SIGARAB Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP @ EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China 🇨🇳
  5. 🎉 Joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Central Arkansas as a tenure-track Assistant Professor 🐻🐾
  6. 🎓 Milestone reached: Alhamdulillah, passed Doctoral Defense 🎉 ✔✔✔
    🗓️ June 12, 2025
  7. 🎉 I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Central Arkansas 🐻🐾
    🗓️ April 2025
    I’ll be joining the department in Fall 2025 🍁
  8. 👨‍🔬 Serving as a Program Committee member for ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering - Artifact Evaluation (SLE@STAF25), Koblenz, 🇩🇪
  9. 🧐 Served as Sub-Reviewer (Technical Track), 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26), Rio de Janeiro,🇧🇷
  10. 🎙️ Gave a guest lecture titled 🎭 The Art of Code Reviews for a research seminar class at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio 🇺🇸
    🗓️ Apr 7, 2025
  11. 🗞️ Our paper with my mentees got accepted to SERA'25 🇺🇸
  12. 🗞️ Our manuscript has been accepted for publication in 🐴 EMSE 🙌
    (Springer Empirical Software Engineering)
  13. 🎉 Milestone reached: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal done ✔✔
    Now, I am in the job market 💼
  14. 👨‍🔬 Served as a Program Committee (Artifact Evaluation) at ACM SIGPLAN 17th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE@SPLASH24) Pasadena, California, 🇺🇸
  15. 🎉 Successfully completed my research internship at 🌿 Oak Ridge National Lab 🧪 in Summer 2024 🧑🏻‍💻
  16. 🧐 Served as Sub-Reviewer (Technical Papers Track), ACM/ IEEE 18th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Barcelona, 🇪🇸
  17. 🎙️ Presented Poster of my dissertation research at Boise State University 📋
  18. 🗞️ Our paper got accepted to SERA'24 🇺🇸
  19. 🎙️ Gave Ph.D. Computing Colloquium Talk at Boise State University 🎭 and received Research Travel Grant ✈️ from the Computing Ph.D. program 🏢
  20. 🎉 Joining 🌿 Oak Ridge National Lab 🧪 as Research Intern in Summer 2024 🧑🏻‍💻
  21. 🗞️ Our paper got accepted to NLBSE@ICSE'24 🇵🇹
  22. 🎙️ Presented our paper at ESEM'23, New Orleans 🇺🇸
  23. 🗞️ Our paper got accepted to ESEM'23
  24. 🎉 Accomplished Doctoral Comprehensive Exam with Excellent remarks from the program committee in 2023
  25. 🎙️ Presented our paper at SERA'22 , Las Vegas 🇺🇸
  26. 🗞️ Our paper got accepted to SERA'22
  27. Started Doctoral Study at Boise State University
    (Boise, Idaho, USA)