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Work across disciplines
▪ Little funding for purely SE projects
▪ Look to partner with zeitgeist projects
– Digital health [e.g. $20Bn MRFF]
– AI [expected to be $15Trn business by 2030]
– Values/Ethics [e.g. £150M Schwarzmann donation to Oxford for
AI/Ethics]
– Cybersecurity
– SE can and does contribute to all of these – you just need to find
the right pitch
– The danger is it takes you too far away from SE – but not always
a bad thing](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whittleuts-190708003502/85/Australasian-Software-Engineering-Research-Current-State-20-320.jpg)
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So: some suggestions
▪ Vision/Strategy
– use meetings like this to develop a vision [next one in
Melbourne?]
▪ Networks
– PhD network
– Senior leaders network
– Mentoring network
▪ International Visibility
– ICSE workshop organisation
– ASE/ICSME 2020 “sandwich” workshop
▪ Social Media/Comms
▪ Cite each other](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whittleuts-190708003502/85/Australasian-Software-Engineering-Research-Current-State-21-320.jpg)
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Australasian Software Engineering Research: Current State
This document discusses the current state and future direction of software engineering (SE) research in Australia and New Zealand. It provides data on submissions and participation from these countries to the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). It then suggests developing a clear vision and strategy to guide SE research in the region, working as a collaborative team across institutions rather than as individuals, nurturing emerging researchers, thinking globally, and working across disciplines. Specific recommendations include defining SMART objectives, holding workshops, submitting more proposals, citing each other's work, establishing PhD and mentoring networks, and targeting top international conferences. The overarching goal is to strengthen the base of SE research in Australasia.
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- 1. Australasian SE: Whithernow? Jon Whittle Faculty of IT, Monash University MONASH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @Jon_Whittle_
- 2. 2 Current state ofAustralasian SE? ICSE 2019
- 3. Submissions by country 529submissions by 1713 authors from 45 countries Australia: 33 authors NZ: 8 authors
- 4. 2018 vs 2019 50% 100% 50% Australia HongKong New Zealand China France India Pakistan Spain Sweden 75% 75% Italy Portugal
- 5. 5 Acceptance rate Country Acceptancerate 2019 Acceptance rate 2018 USA 0.25 0.26 China 0.15 0.13 UK 0.25 0.26 Australia 0.50 0.52 New Zealand 0.21 0
- 6. Author:PC ratio #submitting authors #PC/PB #submittingauthors * acceptance rate #PC/PB USA 11:1 UK 5:1 China 108:1 Australia 5:1 NZ 3:1 USA 3:1 UK 0.5:1 China 16:1 Australia 2.5:1 NZ 0.5:1
- 7. 7 ICSE PCs # PC/PBmembers 2018 # PC/PB members 2019 # PC/PB members 2020 Australia 1 7 5 New Zealand 0 3 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2018 2019 2020 Aus NZ
- 8. 9 ICSE 2019 WorkshopOrganisation ▪ 27 workshops – # organizers from ANZ: ▪ Note: ICSE 2020 Workshop deadline Oct 5 3
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- 12. 13 Gender Diversity ▪ Totallisted Faculty in ANZ: 61 ▪ 11F/50M (18%/72%)
- 13. 14 So, a strongbase to build on…
- 14. 15 But what next? (1)Define a vision and strategy for SE research in Australasia (2) Work as a team of researchers not a set of individuals (3) Nurture and support emerging researchers (4) Think globally not locally (5) Work across disciplines
- 15. 16 What’s in avision? ▪ Clear aspirational goals we can all (or almost all) buy into – Examples: ▪ Metrics driven goals: e.g. 3rd in the world in terms of # ICSE submitting authors ▪ Theme based goals: e.g. be globally recognized for leading the way in human aspects of SE research ▪ Diversity based goals: e.g. 33% female PhD students across ANZ ▪ Team based goals: e.g. every academic co-authors with collaborator from a top 20 SE research group in the world ▪ Niche-based goals: e.g., recognized for research with industry ▪ Clear themes that define what we do – E.g. at Monash: ▪ Social and ethical software ▪ Software quality ▪ AI and automation
- 16. 17 What’s in astrategy? ▪ SMART objectives designed to move towards the vision & actions to achieve those objectives ▪ Example: Objective Actions Increase av. cites per person by 50% by 2021 (1) Raise visibility: hold an ANZ workshop for high profile international visitors between ICSME 2020 and ASE 2020 (2) Submit 5 workshop proposals for ICSE 2020 with ANZ organizers (3) Actively look for opportunities to cite work by other ANZ researchers
- 17. 18 Work as ateam ▪ Again, comes back to the vision/strategy ▪ Action this by: – A “gathering” strategy ▪ Use meetings like this to further our agenda – A network of PhD students – Social media/Comms strategy – A network of senior leaders: lobby ARC, government etc. – Identify emerging leaders: formal/informal mentoring
- 18. 19 Support Emerging Researchers ▪This all requires leaders – And NEW leaders – Again, I say NEW leaders – Did I say NEW leaders? ▪ Name names….. ▪ it is YOUR responsibility…. But let’s mentor them: let’s agree a mentor network TODAY
- 19. 20 Think Globally notLocally ▪ ASWEC ▪ Use it to implement these strategic objectives ▪ Good things about it in 2018/ bad things about it in 2018 ▪ We MUST target top conferences and journals though ▪ And sometimes you need to think locally (e.g., ARC)
- 20. 21 Work across disciplines ▪Little funding for purely SE projects ▪ Look to partner with zeitgeist projects – Digital health [e.g. $20Bn MRFF] – AI [expected to be $15Trn business by 2030] – Values/Ethics [e.g. £150M Schwarzmann donation to Oxford for AI/Ethics] – Cybersecurity – SE can and does contribute to all of these – you just need to find the right pitch – The danger is it takes you too far away from SE – but not always a bad thing
- 21. 22 So: some suggestions ▪Vision/Strategy – use meetings like this to develop a vision [next one in Melbourne?] ▪ Networks – PhD network – Senior leaders network – Mentoring network ▪ International Visibility – ICSE workshop organisation – ASE/ICSME 2020 “sandwich” workshop ▪ Social Media/Comms ▪ Cite each other
- 22. By far themost important thing is to step up