Context-aware Oriented Approaches for Communication & Human-centered Software Engineering (COACH) Lab

People

Jaydeb Sarker

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Department of CS, UNO

Steve Saunders

Ph.D. Candidate in CIS (Fall 2025-)

Rudra Sarkara

MS student in CS (Fall 2025-)

Anup Gautama

MS student in CS (Fall 2026-)

Angel De La O Chairez

MS student in CS (Fall 2026-)

Selected Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS

[J2] [TOSEM-25] [Rank= A*] Sayma Sultana, Jaydeb Sarker, Farjzana Israt, Rajshakhar Paul, and Amiangshu Bosu. Automated Identification of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discriminatory Texts from Issue Comments (ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2025). Accepted in the Journal First Track to present at the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)-2026, Montreal, Canada.
• [J1] [TOSEM-23] [Rank= A*] Jaydeb Sarker, Asif Kamal Turzo, Ming Dong, and Amiangshu Bosu. Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR (ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2023).
Accepted for presentation in the Journal First Track of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)-2023, San Francisco, California, United States.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS

[C5] [FSE-26] [Rank= A*] Awsaf Alam Anindo, Showvik Biswas, Anindya Iqbal Jaydeb Sarker, and Amiangshu Bosu. ToxiShield: Promoting Inclusive Developer Communication through Real-Time Toxicity Filtering In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2026, Montreal, Canada pp. TBD, [Acceptance Rate: 22.9% (211/920)]

• [C4] [FSE-25] [Rank= A*] Jaydeb Sarker, Asif Kamal Turzo, and Amiangshu Bosu. The Landscape of Toxicity: An Empirical Investigation of Toxicity on GitHub. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2025 [Direct Acceptance Rate without revision: 11.5% (70/607)]

  [C3] [ESEM-23] [Rank= A] Jaydeb Sarker, Sayma Sultana, Steven R. Wilson, Amiangshu Bosu. ToxiSpanSE: An Explainable Toxicity Detection in Code Review Comments , Technical Track, The 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement- 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

  [C2] [ESEM-23] [Rank= A] Asif Kamal Turzo, Fahim Faysal, Ovi Poddar, Jaydeb Sarker, Anindya Iqbal, Amiangshu Bosu. Towards Automated Classification of Code Review Feedback to Support Analytics , Technical Track, The 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement- 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

  [C1] [APSEC-20] Jaydeb Sarker, Asif Kamal Turzo, and Amiangshu Bosu. A benchmark study of the contemporary toxicity detectors on software engineering interactions. In proceedings of the 27th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference 2020, Singapore pp. 218–227.

  SHORT PAPERS

  [SP1] [FSE-IVR-25] [Rank= A*] Mia Mohammad Imran* and Jaydeb Sarker*. "Silent Is Not Actually Silent": An Investigation of Toxicity on Bug Report Discussion In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2025, Ideas, Visions and Reflections