Abram is a professor at the University of Alberta , in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada within the Department of Computing Sciences . He researches software engineering, mining software repositories , software process recovery , the intersection between software engineering and computer music, and Green Mining (the study of software change versus software energy consumption and software power consumption).
Prospective Graduate Students please read this page before contacting me: Guide to Prospective Students
What can Abram offer you?
Methods, Technology and Tools for characterizing past developer behaviour in a software project, based on information stored in Source Control Repositories .
Methodology and tools to relate software evolution and software power consumption / software energy use / software power use: Green Mining
Methods and technologies for building and using computer music systems. The cross-over between software engineering and computer music: SoftwareEngineeringAndComputerMusic
What questions does Abram seek to help answer?
Graduate Students:
Current Graduate Students:
Hareem Sahar (PhD)
Amir Salimi (PhD)
Weijie Sun (PhD)
Kalvin Eng (PhD)
Samuel Iwuchukwu (MSc)
Anisha Islam (MSc)
Past Students:
Teaching:
Awards:
2020 Telus World of Science Fellowship $2500
2017 CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher prize
2017 Mining Software Repositories Early Career Achievement Award: “To recognize the rigor, fearlessness, and breadth of his MSR-related research, and for establishing a new area of research related to green-mining.”
2017 – 2022 NSERC Discovery Grant $108000
2017 NSERC Engage with Black Duck Software $25000
2016 SIGSOFT ACM Distinguished Paper Award – ICSE 2016
2016 KIAS Team Grant with M. Friskopf et al. $7500
2016 Best MSR Mining Challenge Paper – MSR 2016
2015 MITACS Accelerate Cluster with Bioware $106666
2015 Best MSR Mining Challenge Paper – MSR 2015
2015 The Interdepartmental Science Students’ Society: Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
2014 NSERC Engage with BioWare? $22000
2014 Faculty of Science: Student’s Honor Roll
2013 Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award $25000
2012 – 2017 NSERC Discovery Grant $95000
2012 MSR Best Paper Award – MSR 2012
2012 Best MSR Mining Challenge Paper – MSR 2012
2010 Best Presentation Award - Mining Software Archives 2010
2015 ISSS Teaching Award
NSERC Discovery Grant
MSR 2012 Best Paper Award
Potentially fun things:
email: web@softwareprocess.es
Abram Hindle
Department of Computing Science
447 Athabasca Hall
University of Alberta
Prospective Graduate Students
Prospective Graduate Students please read this page before contacting me: Guide to Prospective Students
Posts
2024/06/10
IRJIT: A simple, online, information retrieval approach for just-in-time software defect prediction
2024/02/19
Patterns of multi-container composition for service orchestration with Docker Compose
2024/02/04
Federated Learning and Differential Privacy Techniques on Multi-hospital Population-scale Electrocardiogram Data
2024/01/12
Opening the Valve on Pure-Data: Usage Patterns and Programming Practices of a Data-Flow Based Visual Programming Language
2024/01/01
Development and validation of machine learning algorithms based on electrocardiograms for cardiovascular diagnoses at the population level
2023/11/01
Supervised Electrocardiogram (ECG) Features Outperform Knowledge-based And Unsupervised Features In Individualized Survival Prediction
2023/09/24
Generative Data by β-Variational Autoencoders Help Build Stronger Classifiers: ECG Use Case
2023/09/01
Dovecot and Thunderbird, bad certificate ssl alert number 42 errors
2023/08/23
Predicting Individual Survival Distributions Using ECG: A Deep Learning Approach Utilizing Features Extracted by a Learned Diagnostic Model
2023/08/10
Identifying Defect-Inducing Changes in Visual Code
2023/08/10
Predicting Defective Visual Code Changes in a Multi-Language AAA Video Game Project
2023/03/07
An Empirical Study to Investigate Collaboration Among Developers in Open Source Software (OSS)
2023/03/07
Energy Consumption Estimation of API-usage in Smartphone Apps via Static Analysis
2023/03/07
Evolution of the Practice of Software Testing in Java Projects
2023/01/03
CMPUT404: Webservices
2023/01/03
CMPUT301: INTRO TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
2023/01/01
Towards artificial intelligence-based learning health system for population-level mortality prediction using electrocardiograms
2022/11/02
Analyzing Techniques for Duplicate Question Detection on Q&A Websites for Game Developers
2022/07/18
CMPUT660: Machine Learning Applied: Software Engineering, Software Analtyics, and Software Energy Consumption (2022)
2022/01/01
Improving ECG-based COVID-19 diagnosis and mortality predictions using pre-pandemic medical records at population-scale
2021/12/30
A Black Box Technique to Reduce Energy Consumption of Android Apps
2021/11/30
Dorabella Cipher as Musical Inspiration
2021/10/26
ECG for high-throughput screening of multiple diseases: Proof-of-concept using multi-diagnosis deep learning from population-based datasets
2021/06/15
Energy Efficient Guidelines for iOS Core Location Framework
2021/04/23
Experimental Analysis of the Dorabella Cipher with Statistical Language Models
2021/04/05
What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?
2021/02/22
PySStuBs: Characterizing Single-Statement Bugs in Popular Open-Source Python Projects
2021/02/22
Revisiting Dockerfiles in Open Source Software Over Time
2021/01/29
Multilabel 12-Lead Electrocardiogram Classification Using Beat To Sequence Autoencoders
2020/10/29
How are issue reports discussed in Gitter chat rooms?
2020/10/15
Borderlands 3 and Confidence Intervals of Loot Drop Rates
2020/10/01
Multilabel 12-Lead Electrocardiogram Classification Using Gradient Boosting Tree Ensemble
2020/09/17
Make your own audience: virtual listeners can filter generated drum programs
2020/09/10
Essence of Chaos: Experiments and simulations with marbles and tubes
2020/08/07
On the Time-Based Conclusion Stability of Cross-Project Defect Prediction Models
2020/06/10
Statistics and probability for randomized games (loot shooters, roguelites, roguelikes, etc.)
2020/05/26
CMPUT201: Practical Programming Methodology / Programming IRL / The C Course / You didn’t teach that why are you testing us on it!
2020/01/15
Understanding DevOps Education with Grounded Theory
2019/07/13
Syntax and Stack Overflow: A Methodology for Extracting a Corpus of Syntax Errors and Fixes
2019/07/13
Syntax and Stack Overflow: {A} Methodology for Extracting a Corpus of Syntax Errors and Fixes
2019/03/01
What do developers know about machine learning: a study of ML discussions on StackOverflow
2019/02/27
Complexity: Let’s Not Make This Complicated
2018/12/01
GreenBundle: An Empirical Study on the Energy Impact of Bundled Processing
2018/08/15
Automatic topic classification of test cases using text mining at an Android smartphone vendor
2018/07/20
Preventing Duplicate Bug Reports by Continuously Querying Bug Reports
2018/07/13
How does Docker affect energy consumption? Evaluating workloads in and out of Docker containers
2018/07/07
If you bill it, they will pay: Energy consumption in the cloud will be irrelevant until directly billed for
2018/06/20
An exploratory study on assessing the energy impact of logging on Android applications
2018/06/20
GreenScaler: Training Software Energy Models With Automatic Test Generation
2018/05/17
An App Performance Optimization Advisor for Mobile Device App Marketplaces
2018/05/10
Training Deep Convolutional Networks with Unlimited Synthesis of Musical Examples for Multiple Instrument Recognition
2018/05/10
What can Android mobile app developers do about the energy consumption of machine learning?
2017/12/18
Syntax and Sensibility: Using language models to detect and correct syntax errors
2017/11/01
Analyzing the effects of test driven development in GitHub
2017/07/29
Continuous Maintenance
2017/06/12
Deep Green: An Ensemble of Machine Learning Methods Predicting Mobile Energy Consumption
2017/04/04
Performance with an Electronically Excited Didgeridoo
2017/03/01
Isolated guitar transcription using a deep belief network
2017/01/01
Expert Commentary: The potential synthesizer in your pocket
2016/08/01
Detecting duplicate bug reports with software engineering domain knowledge
2016/06/10
Visualizing Project Evolution Through Abstract Syntax Tree Analysis
2016/05/14
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Traditional Information Retrieval in Crash Report Deduplication
2016/04/04
Hadoop energy consumption reduction with hybrid HDFS
2016/03/28
Characterizing Energy-Aware Software Projects: Are They Different?
2016/03/28
Hacking NIMES
2016/03/28
Judging a commit by its cover: Correlating commit message entropy with build status on Travis-CI
2016/03/02
Detecting duplicate bug reports with software engineering domain knowledge
2016/02/29
GreenOracle: Estimating Software Energy Consumption with Energy Measurement Corpora
2016/01/01
Leaders of Tomorrow on the Future of Software Engineering: A Roundtable
2016/01/01
The Perils of Energy Mining: Measure a Bunch, Compare just Once
2015/12/22
Green Software Engineering: The Curse of Methodology
2015/12/18
Crowdsourced Bug Triaging: Leveraging Q&A Platforms for Bug Assignment
2015/12/17
Client-Side Energy Efficiency of HTTP/2 for Web and Mobile App Developers
2015/12/15
Energy Profiles of Java Collections Classes
2015/09/29
GreenAdvisor: A Tool for Analyzing the Impact of Software Evolution on Energy Consumption
2015/08/06
A system-call based model of software energy consumption without hardware instrumentation
2015/08/06
Hadoop branching: Architectural impacts on energy and performance
2015/07/24
Crowdsourced bug triaging
2015/06/28
A contextual approach towards more accurate duplicate bug report detection and ranking
2015/05/31
Orchestrating Your Cloud Orchestra
2015/05/18
On the Naturalness of Software
2015/05/16
An Empirical Study of End-user Programmers in the Computer Music Community
2015/05/16
Mining StackOverflow to Filter out Off-topic IRC Discussion
2015/01/01
Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Extracting Topics from Software Engineering Data
2015/01/01
What do programmers know about the energy consumption of software?
2014/11/03
Involvement, Contribution and Influence in Github and Stack Overflow
2014/11/03
On Improving Green Mining For Energy-Aware Software Analysis
2014/11/03
The Power of System Call Traces: Predicting the Software Energy Consumption Impact of Changes
2014/06/01
Green mining: energy consumption of advertisement blocking methods
2014/05/31
A green miner’s dataset: mining the impact of software change on energy consumption
2014/05/31
Co-evolution of project documentation and popularity within github
2014/05/31
GreenMiner: a hardware based mining software repositories software energy consumption framework
2014/05/08
CloudOrch: A Portable SoundCard in the Cloud
2014/04/08
Syntax Errors Just Aren’t Natural: Improving Error Reporting with Language Models
2014/03/23
The Impact of User Choice on Energy Consumption
2014/01/01
Do topics make sense to managers and developers?
2013/11/18
A Multidimensional Empirical Study on Refactoring
2013/09/22
On the Personality Traits of StackOverflow Users
2013/04/01
SWARMED: Captive Portals, Mobile Devices, and Audience Participation in Multi-User Music Performance
2013/03/16
Deficient documentation detection: a methodology to locate deficient project documentation using topic analysis
2013/03/15
A contextual approach towards more accurate duplicate bug report detection
2013/01/01
Automated Topic Naming Supporting Cross-project Analysis of Software Maintenance Activities
2013/01/01
Green Mining: a Methodology of Relating Software Change and Configuration to Power Consumption
2013/01/01
Roundtable: What’s Next in Software Analytics
2012/08/14
Understanding Android Fragmentation with Topic Analysis of Vendor-Specific Bugs
2012/06/20
Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis: Do Topics Extracted from Requirements Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
2012/06/02
The Build Dependency Perspective of Android’s Concrete Architecture
2012/05/23
Software Bertillonage Determining the Provenance of Software Development Artifacts
2012/03/24
Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches
2012/03/16
Green Mining: A Methodology of Relating Software Change to Power Consumption
2012/03/12
Do the stars align? Multidimensional analysis of Android’s Layered Architecture
2012/01/27
Green Mining: Investigating Power Consumption across Versions
2012/01/27
On the Naturalness of Software
2011/10/17
Got Issues? Do New Features and Code Improvements Affect Defects?
2011/10/17
On the Effectiveness of Simhashing in Clone Detection on Large Scale Software System
2011/09/05
BugCache for Inspections : Hit or Miss?
2011/05/23
Determining the provenance of software artifacts
2011/05/21
A Simpler Model of Software Readability
2011/05/21
Automated topic naming to support cross-project analysis of software maintenance activities
2011/05/21
Multifractal Aspects of Software Development
2011/05/21
Software Bertillonage: Finding the provenance of an entity
2010/10/13
Software Process Recovery: Recovering Process From Artifacts
2010/09/12
Software Process Recovery using Recovered Unified Process Views
2010/05/02
Mining Challenge 2010: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu
2009/09/20
What’s Hot and What’s Not: Windowing Developer Topic Analysis
2009/05/19
Automatic Classification of Large Changes into Maintenance Categories
2009/05/16
Mining Recurrent Activities: Fourier Analysis of Change Events
2009/01/01
Reading beside the lines: Using indentation to rank revisions by complexity
2008/10/15
Reverse Engineering CAPTCHAs
2008/09/28
From Indentation Shapes to Code Structures
2008/06/10
Reading Beside the Lines: Indentation as a Proxy for Complexity Metrics
2008/05/10
What do large commits tell us?: A taxonomical study of large commits
2007/10/02
Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems
2007/06/25
YARN: Animating Software Evolution
2007/05/19
Release Pattern Discovery via Partitioning: Methodology and Case Study
2006/01/01
Visualizing the evolution of software using softChange
2005/09/19
Measuring Fine-Grained Change in Software: Towards Modification-Aware Change Metrics
2005/05/17
SCQL: A formal model and a query language for source control repositories
2004/06/20
Visualizing the evolution of software using softChange
