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Chanchal K. Roy is Director of the industry-stream, multi-University NSERC CREATE graduate program on Software Analytics Research (SOAR) and Professor of Software Engineering/Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), Canada. He is also a Co-lead/Investigator of the Data Management and Repository group of an NSERC Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) on Food security. As the lead author of the widely used NiCad code clone detection system, he has published more than 200 refereed publications, with many of them in premier software engineering conferences and journals that have been cited more than 9,000 times. Dr. Roy works in the broad area of software engineering, with particular emphasis on software clone detection and management, software evolution and maintenance, recommender systems in software engineering, and big data analytics in software engineering. His contributions to the software maintenance community, and particularly to the software clones community have been highly influential, winning three Most Influential Paper awards at SANER 2018, ICPC 2018 and SANER 2021. He has been recognized with the New Scientist Research Award of the College of Arts and Science at USask, the University wide New Researcher Award, GSA Advising Excellence Award and a 2018 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award by CS-Can/Info-Can. Dr. Roy was a vision keynote speaker at WCRE/CSMR 2014 on software clones, and a keynote speaker at IWSC 2018, IEEE R10HTC 2018, BIM 2021 and STI 2021. He has attracted over $4M in external funding since joining the USask, including an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant, NSERC CREATE grant and leading major roles in two CFREF grants in Food Security and Water Security. His recent work on a new way of searching Stack Overflow was featured in Stack Overflow blogs which then subsequently was featured in most of the major tech news websites and blogs such as ACM Tech news, TechRepublic, Hacker News, SD Times, and reddit.

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University of Saskatchewan: Saskatoon, SK, CA

2009-07-01 to present | Professor (Computer Science)
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Chanchal Roy