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2023

Carl, Meriel, and Trey Win the All-University Graduate Teaching Awards and Disciplinary Area Awards - View article

David Shriver wins ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award - View article

Nusrat Jahan Mozumder to chair the Computer Science Department Graduate Student Group - View article

Sebastian Elbaum Named a Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery - View article

Soneya received the John A. Stankovic Outstanding Graduate Research Award - View article

Soneya received the Student Choice Research Award at the CS Department Fall Research Symposium - View article

Will Leeson wins Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2023 for his work Sibyl

2022

2022 Fall CS Research Symposium - Trey Woodlief wins most promising research award - View article

Collaboration Takes Center Stage at this years Research Symposium - Organized and Hosted by Carl - View article

Matthew B. Dwyer awarded the 2022 ISSTA Test of Time award - View article

Matthew B. Dwyer awarded the IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills award - View article

Matthew Dwyer is the General Chair for ICSE 2022 - View article

Rory McDaniel to chair the Computer Science Department Graduate Student Group - View article

2021

2021 Fall CS Research Symposium - 3 Members of the LESS Lab Win Awards - View article

Before Machines Can be Autonomous, Humans Must Work to Ensure Their Safety - View article

Computer Science Graduate Student Group Research Symposium - Organized and Hosted by Soneya - View article

Lu Feng Awarded NSF Designing Accountable Software Systems Grant - View article

Matthew B. Dwyer awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award - View article

Putting It All on the Line - Felipe and Dane Win a Robotics Competition - View article

UVA Engineering Professor Sebastian Elbaum Named IEEE Fellow - View article

2020

Mary Lou Soffa Receives Distinguished Faculty Award - View article

Matthew B. Dwyer Named a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery - View article

Three Members of the LESS Lab Win Awards During CS Research Symposium - View article

UVA Wins Third National Cybersecurity Championship - With Dr. Kwon as Their Faculty Advisor - View article

2019

Matthew B. Dwyer awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service award - View article

Picture Gallery

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Swaroopa presents her research titled _Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing_ at FSE 2023.

Swaroopa presents her research titled Input Distribution Coverage: Measuring Feature Interaction Adequacy in Neural Network Testing at FSE 2023.

Soneya presents her research titled _Neural-Based Test Oracle Generation: A Large-scale Evaluation and Lessons Learned_ at FSE 2023.

Soneya presents her research titled Neural-Based Test Oracle Generation: A Large-scale Evaluation and Lessons Learned at FSE 2023.

Sebastian and Meriel, organizers of the _SE4SafeML: Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components_ workshop, at FSE 2023. SE4SafeML was the highest attended workshop at the conference with 44 attendees.

Sebastian and Meriel, organizers of the SE4SafeML: Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components workshop, at FSE 2023. SE4SafeML was the highest attended workshop at the conference with 44 attendees.

Matt discussing whats next with Soneya and Swaroopa at FSE 2023.

Matt discussing whats next with Soneya and Swaroopa at FSE 2023.

Felipe presents his research titled _Deeper Notions of Correctness in Image-Based DNNs: Lifting Properties from Pixel to Entities_ at FSE 2023.

Felipe presents his research titled Deeper Notions of Correctness in Image-Based DNNs: Lifting Properties from Pixel to Entities at FSE 2023.

Carl, Trey, and Felipe touring the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Carl, Trey, and Felipe touring the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Celebrating David successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.

Celebrating David successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation.

Will presenting his work on SMT Selection via Graph Neural Networks at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

Will presenting his work on SMT Selection via Graph Neural Networks at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

Trey winning most promising research at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

Trey winning most promising research at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

Carl Hildebrandt welcomes everyone to the research symposium he organized.

Carl Hildebrandt welcomes everyone to the research symposium he organized.

Chris presenting his work on Unsupervised Inference of Relations Between Sensed Object Spatial Distributions and Robot Behaviors at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

Chris presenting his work on Unsupervised Inference of Relations Between Sensed Object Spatial Distributions and Robot Behaviors at the 2022 Fall CS Research Symposium.

The Lab at ICSE 2022 in Pittsburgh. Congratulations to Matt Dwyer on organizing an amazing conference!

The Lab at ICSE 2022 in Pittsburgh. Congratulations to Matt Dwyer on organizing an amazing conference!

Soneya welcomes attendees to the research symposium that she organized with the Computer Science Graduate Student Group.

Soneya welcomes attendees to the research symposium that she organized with the Computer Science Graduate Student Group.

One of our first full lab Zoom meetings.

One of our first full lab Zoom meetings.

End of year celebrations at a local restaurant.

End of year celebrations at a local restaurant.

Trey talking about his current work on identifying and predicting faults in robots.

Trey talking about his current work on identifying and predicting faults in robots.

Professor Elbaum talking to the entire lab.

Professor Elbaum talking to the entire lab.

Mitch giving a talk on some of his previous work on software analysis.

Mitch giving a talk on some of his previous work on software analysis.

Meriel giving a talk on her current work on invariants.

Meriel giving a talk on her current work on invariants.

Carl giving a talk on his recently published work on creating stressful trajectories for robots.

Carl giving a talk on his recently published work on creating stressful trajectories for robots.

Micheal testing the flamewheel with its GPS overridden from our motion capture system.

Micheal testing the flamewheel with its GPS overridden from our motion capture system.