This month the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge launched the Veracity Spearhead Research project. The $2M two-year project will investigate technology solutions on how to verify something is what it appears to be. We will investigate...

Our lab is now equipped with three state-of-the-art specialized Deep Learning (DL) workstations, each installed with multiple RTX3090 and RTX6000 GPUs. These workstations were purchased from Lambda Labs; a hardware company specialized in configuring and selling DL...

While we have been extremely fortunate in New Zealand where the global pandemic has been largely contained, this year has still been very difficult for many of us. Some of us were separated from our families, and the closed borders brought uncertainty of when we could...

Dr Kelly Blincoe has been awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant. These grants support early career researchers in New Zealand. This grant will enable Kelly to investigate methods to enable automated updates of software dependencies. She will be recruiting a PhD student...

Kelly Blincoe served as a Program Co-Chair of ICSME 2020, together with Zhenchang Xing from Australian National University. In this post, she shares some insights on the conference organization. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the conference was fully virtual, so...

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering was held in Zurich, but it was a hybrid event, allowing virtual participation. James Tizard presented our paper, "Voice of the Users: A Demographic Study of Software Feedback Behaviour." Here is a...

Our new way of working in HASEL. After many virtual group meetings, we are lucky to be able to get back to campus and also still have the flexibility to work from home. We also said goodbye to Prof. Daniela Damian today who has been visiting the lab for the past five...

Professor Daniela Damian from the University of Victoria in Canada is currently visiting the University of Auckland as a distinguished visitor. Last week, she gave a public webinar on how collaboration has changed and is changing in software development. A recording...

Dr Kelly Blincoe was awarded a 2019 Google Faculty Research Award to continue her research on diversity and inclusion in software engineering. Google funded 150 of the 917 submitted proposals. For more details on the award, see the announcement on the Google AI blog.

James presented his work at the Requirements Engineering Conference in Jeju Island. He described how software product support forums often contain information that could be useful to help software developers understand problems users have when using their software...