Emma Söderberg I am an associate professor / senior lecturer at Lund University specializing in Programming Tools in the Software Development and Environments group at the Department of Computer Science. I completed my Ph.D. in 2013 at Lund University under the supervision of Görel Hedin (Thesis: Contributions to the Construction of Extensible Semantic Editors). As of March 2018, I have returned to Lund University after four years in industry, working on developer tools at Google in Mountain View and Copenhagen (Tricorder, Shipshape, Tricium). Contact: See cs.lth.se/emma-soderberg, Twitter: @EmmaSoederberg Research Interest: I typically work in interdisciplinary research projects in the intersection of programming tools, software engineering, and human-computer interaction, where I focus on how programming tools can support human needs in the software development process. Supervision and Openings: I supervise projects on all levels (from B.Sc. to Postdoc) and occationally I have openings for Ph.D. students, postdocs, and student programmers. I'm always interested in working with motivated students. Please reach out if you have an interest in this area and we can discuss possibilities. I try to list current openings here.

News

• Speaking at Lindholmen Software Day (Oct 27, 2022): "Making Code Review Fit for Purpose" [Program].
• We have an opening for a new PhD student focused on user-centric code review tooling in the WASP-funded Dapper project. See here for details. Application deadline is Aug 31, 2022.
• Accepted paper at PPIG'22: Visual cues in compiler conversations (McCabe, Söderberg, Church, Kuang)
• Accepted paper at EASE'22: Understanding the Experience of Code Review: Misalignments, Attention, and Unit of Analysis (Söderberg, Church, Börstler, Niehorster, Rydenfält).
• Accepted short paper at ICSE-SEIP'22: What's bothering developers in code review? (Söderberg, Church, Börstler, Niehorster, Rydenfält).
• Our paper at EASE-NIER'21 on Open data-driven Usability Improvements of Static Code Analysis and its Challenges (Söderberg, Church, Höst) [PDF] is highlighted in IEEE Software 39(1).
• Accepted paper at OOPSLA'21: JavaDL: Automatically Incrementalizing Java Bug Pattern Detection (Dura, Reichenbach, Söderberg).
• Article in Framtidens forskning: Verktyg för mer användbar programanalys (Swedish).
• Accepted paper at PPIG'21: Progger: Programming by Errors (Work in Progress) (McCabe, Söderberg, Church).
• Accepted paper at PPIG'21: Breaking down and making up - a lens for conversing with compilers (Church, Söderberg, McCabe).
• Accepted paper at EASE-NIER'21: Open data-driven Usability Improvements of Static Code Analysis and its Challenges (Söderberg, Church, Höst). [PDF]

Current Supervision:

• Paul Wuilmart (M.Sc. student @ Knowit / since July 2022). Project: Storytelling as a Strategy to Simplify Code Comprehension
• William Saranpää and Felix Apell Skjutar (Reseach assistants / since Mar 2021 / supervising with Luke Church) Project: GANDER
• Anna Sjerling (M.Sc. student @ Neo4J / since Mar 2022 / main supervisor). Project: Back Pressure in Consensus Module
• Peng Kuang (Ph.D. student / since April 2021 / main supervisor). Project: ADAPT
• Alan McCabe (Ph.D. student / since Sep 2020 / main supervisor) Project: ADAPT
• Alexandru Dura (Ph.D. student / since Oct 2018 / co-supervisor, main supervisor: Christoph Reichenbach)
• Noric Couderc (Ph.D. student / since April 2018 / co-supervisor, main supervisor: Christoph Reichenbach)

• Ebba Rickard (M.Sc. student @ Axis Communications / since Jan 2022 / main supervisor). Project: Music Generated with AI
• Hedda Klintskog and Olivia Mattsson (Reseach assistants / since Feb 2021 / supervising with Luke Church) Project: GANDER
• Kevin Andersson and Mohammad Abo Al Anein (M.Sc., Oct 2021). Data-driven Deployment of Program Analysis Fixes. Carried out at Axis Communications AB. LU-CS-EX-2021-45. [PDF]
• Michael Pater and Mattias Leifsson (M.Sc., June 2021). The Costs and Benefits of Acting on Program Analysis Results. Carried out at Robert Bosch AB, Lund. LU-CS-EX-2021-20. [PDF]
• Anna Qvil (M.Sc., June 2021). Readability [of code] in Practice. Carried out at Sony Mobile Communiation AB. LU-CS-EX-2021-21. [PDF]
• Anton Engström (M.Sc., June 2020), Towards Agile Data Engineering for Small Scale Teams (Sentian). LU-CS-EX-2020-40. [PDF]
• Anton Ljungberg, David Åkerman (M.Sc., April 2020). Data-driven Program Analyzer Deployment (Axis Communications). LU-CS-EX-2020-17. [PDF]
• Jesper Öqvist (Ph.D., Jan 2019 / co-supervisor / main supervisor: Görel Hedin). Contributions to Declarative Implementation of Static Program Analysis. ISBN: 978-91-7753-944-5.
• John Lindskog (M.Sc., Jun 2013). Integration of Abstract Syntax Tree Driven Editors in Eclipse. LU-CS-EX-2013-31.
• Phillip Nilsson (M.Sc., Oct 2010). Compiler Extensions for Semantic Editing using JastAdd. LU-CS-EX-2010-31.
• Jesper Mattsson (M.Sc., May 2009). The JModelica IDE: Developing an IDE Reusing a JastAdd Compiler. LU-CS-EX-2009-29.
• Eric Mossberg (M.Sc., Oct 2009). Inspector - Tooling for Interactive Language Development. LU-CS-EX-2009-35.

Community Work:

2023: ASE (PC), EVCS (Reviewer) ECOOP PC Area chair / Experience Papers, EASE (PC), PX (PC).
2022: PAINT'22 (PC), HumanTech'22 (PC), ICSE (PC), The Programming Journal (Associate Editor, Vol. 6), ICPE (AEC Co-Chair), <Programming> (PC Chair). PX (PC), ASE (PC), SLE (PC, SC), Transactions on Software Engineering (Reviewer), The Programming Journal (Review Committee, Vol. 7).
2021: Empirical Software Engineering (reviewer), PX (PC), <Programming> (Posters/Demos Co-Chair), SLE (PC Co-chair), Journal of Information and Software Technology (reviewer). LIVE (PC),
2020: LIVE (PC), CSE/QUDOS (PC), ASE (PC), ECOOP (PC), ECOOP-DS (Academic Panel), <Programming> PX/20 (PC), ICPC - Industry track (PC), Journal of Software and Systems (reviewer).
2019: SCAM (PC), SLE (Co-Chair Artifact Evaluation Committe), ASE (PC), ECOOP (PC), ICSE-SEIP (PC), Journal of Software and Systems (reviewer), Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (reviewer).
2018: SCAM (PC), SLE (PC), ESEC/FSE Industry track (PC), ICSE Technical briefings (PC), Journal of Computer Languages, Systems and Structure (reviewer).
2017: SLE (PC), ICPC (PC), SOFSEM (PC), PLATEAU (PC).
2016: SLE (PC), PLATEAU (PC).
2015: SLE (PC), PLATEAU (PC), DSLDI (PC).
2013: SCP (reviewer), The Computer Journal (reviewer).