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June 15, 2026

Rajapaksha, Bacher and Barnes Receive Honorable Mention at ACM CHI

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June 11, 2026

Bowen Xu Wins ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

Xu’s paper, “Understanding Codebase like a Professional! Human–AI Collaboration for Code Comprehension”, was accepted at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026).
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June 08, 2026

Ph.D. Students Alex Qin and M. M. Abid Naziri Win TCSE Best Student Paper Award

Congratulations to Department of Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. students Feiran (Alex) Qin and M. M. Abid Naziri on winning the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Technical…

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“CodeMap is designed to supplement developers’ current work by helping them navigate and understand complex codebases,” said Xu. “Rather than replacing human expertise, it gives developers a clearer starting point, a structured map of the system and context-aware explanations that support their own reasoning. My goal is for tools like CodeMap to become practical assistants that help developers navigate complexity, rather than add another layer of complexity.”

Congrats to #NCStateCS Assistant Professor Bowen Xu on receiving an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for his research on code explanation!

#ProgramYourPath #AppliedAI #ThinkAndDo

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“CodeMap is designed to supplement developers’ current work by helping them navigate and understand complex codebases,” said Xu. “Rather than replacing human expertise, it gives developers a clearer starting point, a structured map of the system and context-aware explanations that support their own reasoning. My goal is for tools like CodeMap to become practical assistants that help developers navigate complexity, rather than add another layer of complexity.” Congrats to #NCStateCS Assistant Professor Bowen Xu on receiving an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for his research on code explanation! #ProgramYourPath #AppliedAI #ThinkAndDo

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Congrats to #NCStateCS Assistant Professor DK Xu on receiving a 2026 @ncstateengr Dean’s Applied AI Research Accelerator Award! Xu is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers from @ncstatevetmed and @ncstatewilson; their project is focused on developing a scalable agentic #AI infrastructure that transforms single-molecule microscopy into an intelligent, automated discovery platform.
#ProgramYourPath #ThinkAndDo

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Congrats to #NCStateCS Assistant Professor DK Xu on receiving a 2026 @ncstateengr Dean’s Applied AI Research Accelerator Award! Xu is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers from @ncstatevetmed and @ncstatewilson; their project is focused on developing a scalable agentic #AI infrastructure that transforms single-molecule microscopy into an intelligent, automated discovery platform. #ProgramYourPath #ThinkAndDo

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