Awards & Grants.

Federal funding and community recognition behind the lab's work on reliable, resource-efficient AI for software engineering — the active NSF CRII grant, paper honors at SIGSOFT venues, and reviewing service for ACM conferences and journals.

NSF CRII award.

The active NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative grant, with Antonio Mastropaolo as principal investigator.

AWARD 2451058 · NSF / CISE / SHF

CRII: SHF: Trustworthy & Resource-Efficient Foundation Models for Software Engineering

A two-year initiation award supporting research on making foundation models for code measurably more trustworthy and substantially less resource-intensive — through quantization, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and rigorous reliability evaluation tailored to software engineering tasks.

PROGRAMCRII · SHF
PERIOD06/2025 — 05/2027
DURATION24 months
ROLESole PI

Paper honors.

Distinguished-paper and ERA recognitions at SIGSOFT venues.

HON.01 / 03

DISTINGUISHED PAPER

Unveiling ChatGPT’s Usage in Open Source Projects

R. Tufano · A. Mastropaolo · F. Pepe · O. Dabic · M. Di Penta · G. Bavota

MSR 2024 Lisbon

HON.02 / 03

DISTINGUISHED PAPER

How do Hugging Face Models Document Datasets, Bias, and Licenses?

F. Pepe · V. Nardone · A. Mastropaolo · G. Canfora · M. Di Penta · G. Bavota

ICPC 2024 Lisbon

HON.03 / 03

HONORABLE MENTION

Toward Neurosymbolic Program Comprehension

A. Velasco · A. Garryyeva · D. Nader Palacio · A. Mastropaolo · D. Poshyvanyk

ICPC 2025 · ERA Ottawa

Reviewer service.

Reviewer recognitions from ACM SIGSOFT conference tracks and a journal editorial board.

SVC.01 / 04

DISTINGUISHED REVIEWER

Main Track

FSE 2025 · Trondheim

SVC.02 / 04

DISTINGUISHED REVIEWER

Demos Track

FSE 2025 · Trondheim

SVC.03 / 04

DISTINGUISHED REVIEWER

Research Track

ASE 2024 · Sacramento

SVC.04 / 04

OUTSTANDING REVIEWER · JOURNAL

Journal of Computer Science & Technology

Springer · 2022