News & Updates

2025

🎉 Paper Accepted at ICSE 2026!

Our paper "A Causal Perspective on Measuring, Explaining and Mitigating Smells in LLM-Generated Code" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026.

2025

📝 Paper Published at TOSEM

Our survey paper "Mapping the Terrain: LLMs in Software Engineering Insights and Perspective" has been published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).

October 2023

🎓 Paper Published at ICSME 2023

Our paper "Benchmarking Causal Study to Interpret Large Language Models for Source Code" (Galeras) was published at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2023.

2024

📄 Papers Under Review

Two papers are currently under major revision: "Towards More Trustworthy and Interpretable LLMs for Code through Syntax-Grounded Explanations" and "On Explaining (Large) Language Models for Code Using Global Code-Based Explanations".