Publications
This list covers papers by current SERU members from 2018 on, newest first. Badges mark papers at top venues, and papers outside a main research track, such as tool demos and short papers, name their track after the venue.
- 74Publications since 2018
- 33At top venues
- 17At CORE A* or A conferencesincluding 8 at A*
- 19Journal articles
Counts cover all papers by current members from 2018 on, in every track. A top venue is a journal in the first quartile of the SCImago Journal Rank, a conference ranked A* or A by CORE (ICORE2026), or a venue in the top 20 of its Google Scholar Metrics field (2025 edition).
Awards
The first list covers awards for SERU papers, tools, student projects, and teaching since 2018. The second lists honors that our members received for their own research and service.
Papers, tools, and student projects
- 2026Honorable Mention, National Software Contest (NSC 2026)DepSecLens, a web tool by a student team that checks the security of a Python project's dependencies.Read the news →

- 2023Poster round, National Software Contest (NSC 2023)Typhon, a Visual Studio Code extension by a student team that recommends relevant code cells in Jupyter notebooks.Read the news →

- 2022Best EDU Paper Award, APSEC 2022“Virtual Reality for Software Engineering Presentations”, in the Software Engineering Education track of the 29th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference.Read the news →

- 2022Poster round, National Software Contest (NSC 2022)Microusity, a tool by a student team that tests the security of Backends for Frontends microservice systems.Read about Microusity →

- 2021Honorable Mention, Mahidol University awards for learning innovation in online coursesThe course ITCS431 Software Design and Development, which moved students' project presentations into virtual reality.Read the news →

- 2020Best Tool Demo Award, ICSME 2020Teddy, a senior project that recommends Pythonic idioms during code review, at the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution.Read the news →

- 2020

- 2018Best Research Paper Award, IWESEP 2018“Identifying Design and Requirement Self-Admitted Technical Debt Using N-gram IDF”, at the 9th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice.Read the paper →

Members' honors
- 2023Distinguished Reviewer Award, ICPC 2023Morakot Choetkiertikul, for program committee service at the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension.
- 2021National Research Award (Thesis Award), National Research Council of ThailandMorakot Choetkiertikul, for the doctoral thesis “Developing Analytics Models for Software Project Management”.
- 2019Best PhD Thesis Award, University of WollongongMorakot Choetkiertikul, for the same doctoral thesis.
- 2018Examiners' Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, University of WollongongMorakot Choetkiertikul, for the same doctoral thesis.
- 2015ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, MSR 2015Morakot Choetkiertikul and co-authors, for “Characterization and Prediction of Issue-Related Risks in Software Projects” at the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories.Read the paper →