On May 15 and 16, the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repository (MSR) was held in Melbourne, Australia. During the conference, the 2023 MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award was announced, and Beihang Professor Li Li from the School of Software was the only recipient of the award.

Professor Li is also the first Chinese mainland scholar to receive this honor. At the conference, he delivered an invited speech titled “MSR for Mobile: Reflections and Future Opportunities”.

Professor Li has been deeply involved in software engineering research for many years. He has been named one of the top three most influential young software engineering researchers in the world and won the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2020. He has made groundbreaking contributions to mobile software engineering and intelligent software engineering, with some of his work being implemented by tech companies such as Huawei.

The conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is a well-known international conference in the field of software repository mining, which is co-organized with the prestigious International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) every year. MSR has been classified as an A-class international conference by the Australian CORE organization. Every year, the MSR awards one recipient for the Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award, named after the renowned computer scientist Dr. Ric Holt, to recognize outstanding research by young researchers that has a strong and lasting impact in the field of software repository mining.

Reported by Yang Yilong

Reviewed by Lei Xiaofeng

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Yao Zipeng