April 2025: Presented my paper titled Observing bots in the wild: A quantitative analysis of a large open source ecosystem at the International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2025.
April 2025: Gave an invited talk on the topic A Bot Identification Model and Tool Based on GitHub Activity Sequences at the International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2025.
December 2024: Our paper titled Observing bots in the wild: A quantitative analysis of a large open source ecosystem got accepted for publication at BotSE 2025.
November 2024: Our journal paper A Bot Identification Model and Tool Based on GitHub Activity Sequences got published in Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).
September 2024: Social Media Chair at the International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2025, in Conjunction with ICSE 2025.
May 2024: Our paper CIA: Controllable Image Augmentation Framework based on Stable Diffusion got accepted as a full regular paper at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2024)
Apr 2024: Attended and presented my recent work at the International conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2024.
Jan 2024: Our tool paper RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history has been accepted at MSR 2024 Data and Tools Showcase Track.
Nov 2023: Presented on the topic A Bot Identification Model Based on Activities in GitHub Repositories at BENEVOL 2023 in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Sept 2023: Attended TRAIL Summer Workshop 2023 at Nantes, France. I worked on one of the grand challenges proposed by
Multitel innovation center. Topic: Identifying ControlNet models that can work with Stable Diffusion for data augmentation process.
Aug 2023: Our paper Computational Evaluation of the Combination of Semi-Supervised and Active Learning for Histopathology Image Segmentation with Missing
Annotations was accepted for poster presentation at CVAMD 2023.
May 2023: Our paper Distinguishing Bot From Human Developers Based on Their GitHub Activity Types was accepted at SATToSE 2023.
May 2023: Gave an invited presentation at BotSE 2023 for the published paper: Recognizing bot activity in collaborative software development. I highlighted the importance
of detecting bots in GitHub, the performance and limitations of existing state-of-the-art techniques. Further, I provided one of the possible solutions to address these limitations and improve bot detection in GitHub.
Mar 2023: Our dataset paper A Dataset of Bot and Human Activities in GitHub was accepted at MSR 2023 Data and Tools Showcase Track.
Sept 2022: Attended TRAIL Summer workshop 2022 at Berlin, Germany. I worked on one of the grand challenges that were proposed along with
Multitel innovation center. Topic: Identifying the best Active Learning strategy for annotating histopathology images.
Jun 2022: Won the MSR 2022 best Hackathon Paper Award!
Jun 2022: Presented at the ICSR Doctoral Symposium Track, 2022 on the planned work for my PhD.
May 2022: Our paper Recognizing Bot Activity in Collaborative Software Development was accepted at IEEE Software Journal Special Issue, 2022.
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022: Publicity Chair for the 21st Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL) 2022.
Mar 2022: Our hackathon paper Bot Detection in GitHub Respositories was accepted at MSR Hackathon Track, 2022.
Feb 2022: Our paper Leveraging Predictions From Multiple Repositories to Improve Bot Detection was accepted at the International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2022.
Feb 2022: Our paper On the Accuracy of Bot Detection Techniques was accepted at the International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2022.
Nov 2021: Presented on the topic A Curated Dataset of Bots in GitHub Repositories at BENEVOL 2021.
Sept 2021: Attended TRAIL Summer Workshop 2021 at Paris, France. I worked on one of the grand challenges proposed by Sirris research organization.