Rui Pereira, a doctoral student of HASLab, reached the second place in the ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE 2017, with the article “Locating energy hotspots in source code”.
The article entitled “Locating energy hotspots in source code”, which was initially submitted in the form of a long abstract paper, was presented in a second evaluation phase in poster form at the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, one of the most important conferences in the field of Software Engineering, and it was carried out under the project GSL – Green Software Laboratory, a national project financed by FCT.

In this evaluation phase, along with nine other candidates, Rui Pereira made a small public presentation and exhibition of the poster during a special session of the same conference, before a jury composed of five ICSE and ACM members. Only four researchers advanced to the final phase of the competition.

In the third and final phase, with a research talk at ICSE, Rui Pereira achieved the second place in the competition, losing the first place to a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University, and prior Apple researcher. In this phase, three were awarded a medal.

The next round will be in the Grand Final of the ACM Research Competition, where all medalists participate in the ACM Student Research Competition. This round will be during the ACM Awards Banquet an event where, as a general rule, the Turing Award is presented, that is, a prize awarded by ACM to a person who contributed significantly to the area of Computing.

It is important to mention that this competition, sponsored by Microsoft, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences.

This edition of ICSE was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from May 20 to 28 and has an annual membership of approximately 1600 participants.