Software Research Lab - USASK

A collaborative research work between SRLab USASK and the Federal University of Uberlândia has been featured in Stack Overflow blogs.

CROKAGE – the Crowd Knowledge Answer Generator takes the description of a programming task as a query and then provides relevant, comprehensive programming solutions containing both code snippets and their succinct explanations.

Congratulations to Rodrigo Fernandes(visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Uberlândia), Masud Rahman (PhD candidate from SRLab USASK) and Dr. Chanchal Roy for your success in collaboration research.

CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow Blog One of the most powerful attributes of Stack Overflow (SO) is the accumulation of developers’ knowledge over time. Community members have contributed more than 18 million questions and 27 million answers. When a developer is stuck on a coding problem, they search through this vast trove of informa...

We are very happy to share that Dr. Chanchal Roy is co-leading the P2IRC (https://p2irc.usask.ca/) Data Management and Repository project (over a million with matching fund) effective immediately. With this he is looking for a number of PhD students and a couple of Big Data Management Specialists/Managers. He will provide competitive salaries for the staff positions. He thanked to Dr. Banani Roy (and her students) for their hard work and leadership in the P2IRC Big Data Cloud project (Phase I). Their expertise and findings from Phase I will be crucial in this project too (Phase II). Anyone interested please feel free to contact at [email protected] or at [email protected].

Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - U of S Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre - University of Saskatchewan P2IRC is a digital agriculture research centre funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, managed by the Global Institute for Food Security, and located at the University of Saskatchewan. Research themes include Phenometrics, Image Acquisition Technologies, Computational Informatics of Cro...

The remarkable moment when Dr. Chanchal Roy was receiving the CS-Can/Info-Can outstanding young computer science researcher award!

Congratulations! to Golam Mostaeen, Dr. Banani Roy, Dr. Chanchal Roy, and Dr. Kevin Schneider for the acceptance of their paper, "Designing for Real-Time Groupware Systems to Support Complex Scientific Data Analysis" in (EICS 2019).

2019 focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques, and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems.



Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMSs) has gained much popularity in recent years in accelerating the specification, ex*****on, visualization, and monitoring of data-intensive tasks. Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, no existing SWfMSs directly support collaboration. Data is increasing in complexity, dimensionality, and volume, and the efficient analysis of the data often goes beyond the realm of an individual and requires collaboration with multiple researchers from varying domains. In this paper, the authors propose a groupware system architecture for data analysis that in addition to supporting collaboration, also incorporates features from SWfMSs to support modern data analysis processes. As a proof of concept of the proposed architecture, they develop and present SciWorCS - a groupware system for scientific data analysis. Authors present several real-world use-cases including collaborative software repository analysis and bioinformatics data analysis. The experiments evaluating the proposed system shows promising results. Their user study in the domain of bio-informatics shows that SCiWorCS can leverage real-world data analysis tasks by supporting real-time collaboration among users.

A big congratulation to Dr. Banani Roy for joining as an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Roy works in the Cloud-based Big Data Analytics for Crop Phenomics project (a.k.a P2IRC Project 3.1, a USASK CFREF funded project) where she leads on developing cloud-based collaborative frameworks and APIs for efficiently handling large sets of plant phenotyping and software related data. Moreover, she is also a part of the Global Water Futures Core Computer Science Team, a second USASK CFREF funded project, where she plays a key role in migrating a legacy water security modeling system into a modern programming language and software engineering environment with a focus on a cloud-based architecture.

While working in these projects as a significant member of SRLab, Dr. Roy supervised undergraduate, summer, graduate and post-doctoral fellows. Some of her notable students are Golam Mostaeen who won Best Grad Student Award in M.Sc. within the Computer Science Department in 2018, Paromita Sengupta who got the summer job offer in the position of Controls and Instrumentation Developer at the Canadian Light Source and Debashish Chakroborti who awarded the 2019 SK Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship for his Ph.D. study.

From SRLab family, we wish her all the best for the new prosperous journey with us.

New Faculty Welcome: Dr. Banani Roy - Department of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Banani Roy.