Tim Menzies
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Jul'26IEEE Software: The Impact of AI on Productivity and Code
Inducted: inaugural class, ACM SIGSOFT Academy (photo)
arXiv: Which Optimizer, At What Budget? A Tournament of Optimizers for SBSE (pdf)
arXiv: Is Model Instability just Noise, or a Property that can be Managed? (pdf)
arXiv: Better Together, in the Right Order: Classical-then-LLM Optimization (pdf)
Invited: PC, AAAI'27 AI for Social Impact Track
SSBSE'26 keynote: easier AI?
TSE: Time Efficiency of Code Generated & Optimized by LLMs
TSE: Less Noise, More Signal — the DRR Effect (pdf)
luk on luarocks — Lua + Python-style indentation (read the tour)
Jun'26tool: ezr2 — active learning + self-explaining trees, zero deps (read the tour)
Jun'26tool: ezr toolkit — lightweight XAI for multi-objective optimization (from the EZR paper)
Invited to inaugural ACM SIGSOFT Academy, 2026
arXiv: Can AI be Easy? Lessons from the EZR.py Toolkit
May'26Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award (top 20% editors)
Is This the Return of Symbolic AI?
PC Member, ESEM'26
SSBSE'26: Zoom, Don't Wander — Regional Search vs. Pareto vs. Global
IST: From Coverage to Causes: Data-Centric Fuzzing for JS Engines
Apr'26JF talk: ICSE'26: HPO and SE
Promoted, Not Replaced
JF talk: ICSE'26: shaky causal structures
JSS: explaining optimization
TOSEM: LLMs warming-up active learning
ICSE'26: Future of SE
Mar'26Reappointed EIC, ASE journal
PC Member, FSE'27
Co-chair, Future of SE track, ICSE 2028
PC Member, ICSE'27 NIER
FSE'26: Data-Light SE Challenge
EMSE: Improving LLM Annotations
Feb'26IEEE Fellows Review Committee
VERIFAI'26: Exploiting Sparsity
Jan'26ICSE'26 FOSE: SE Journals in 2036
MSR: Multi-Objective Optimization Repo
VerifAI, France
invited keynote, SSBSE'26
Dec'25Area Chair: ASE'26, ICSE'26
Oct'25PC Member: ISSTA'26, FSE'26, ICSE NIER'26, CAIN'26
Sep'25Valencia SE Group
Aug'25CACM: The Case for Compact AI
Airbnb Dev Conference, San Francisco
Jul'25PC: AAAI Social Impact'26, CAIN'26
Future Advanced Testing Workshop, Paris
Jun'25ESEM'25, Hawaii
May'25Co-chair, EMSE'25 Doctoral Symposium

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