The first CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks of the fall 2024 semester was held on October 16. During this session, Master's candidate Lin Ling presented her research titled "Bias Unveiled: Investigating Social Bias in LLM-Generated Code". Following her presentation, Doctoral candidate Junjie Li shared his study on "An Exploratory Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Secure Code Generation". Both trainees are under the supervision of Prof. Jinqiu Yang at Concordia University.

The webinar recording is available to view on our CREATE SE4AI YouTube channel.

The Spring Trainee Talks webinar was a huge success and we were pleased to have 27 participants join!

In this webinar, 2 PhD students from Polytechnique Montréal under Prof. Foutse Khomh delivered their research topics. Vahid Majdinasab spoke on his topic of Mutation Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Based on Real Faults, followed by Forough Majidi, who shared her Empirical Study on the Usage of Automated Machine Learning Tools. A 10 min Q&A session followed after each presentation.

The webinar recording is available to view on our CREATE SE4AI YouTube channel.