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Our Lab Director, Nafiseh Kahani has been recognized with the FED Teaching Excellence Award 2026. This award celebrates outstanding contributions to teaching, innovation in pedagogy, and a sustained commitment to student success.

Our paper, “Multi-label Ambiguity Detection in Software Requirements Using Language Models,” by Paniz Oghabi and Nafiseh Kahani, received the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Best Paper Award (2025). This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in software engineering. The paper explores the use of language models to detect multiple types of ambiguity in software requirements, helping improve the clarity, quality, and reliability of requirements specifications.

One of our fourth-year capstone students developed an augmented reality (AR) campus tour guide to help Carleton University students, particularly newcomers, navigate the campus and the Mackenzie Building more easily. The project was recognized with the Best/Most Exciting Project Award.

Darren Holden’s Master’s thesis, “Leveraging Language Models to Improve Code Quality Through Code Linting and Automated Test Repair,” was nominated for the Senate Medal at Carleton University. This recognition highlights the quality and impact of his graduate research, which explores how language models can support software engineering by improving code quality through code linting and automated test repair. Congratulations to Darren on this excellent achievement!

Our Lab Director, Nafiseh Kahani won a Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (FGMA). These awards recognize faculty who provide exceptional service to graduate students as supervisors and research mentors. Sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International), these awards reflect the impact excellent mentoring can have on graduate students.