awards & talks | Andrea Stocco

2026 · IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at SANER 2026 for STELLAR: A Search-Based Testing Framework for Large Language Model Applications
2025 · IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICST 2025 for Benchmarking Image Perturbations for Testing Automated Driving Assistance Systems
2025 · IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICST 2025 for Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Deep Learning Test Input Generation
2023 · Best Paper Award at QUATIC 2023 for A Retrospective Analysis of Grey Literature for AI-supported Test Automation
2021 · Best Presentation Award at ICSTW 2021 for AI-based Test Automation: A Grey Literature Analysis
2021 · Best Paper Award Nominee at SOFSEM 2021 for Web Test Automation: Insights from the Grey Literature
2020 · Best Artifact Award at ICSE 2020 for Taxonomy of Real Faults in Deep Learning Systems
2016 · Best Student Paper Award at ICWE 2016 for Clustering-Aided Page Object Generation for Web Testing

2026 · Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs (StMWi), Künstliche Intelligenz – Data Science programme (DIK-2508-0003) · €900,000 total, €300,000 as PI
2023 · TUM Global Incentive Fund · $10,000

2023 · Member of the Board of Distinguished Reviewers and the Board of Replicated Computational Results Distinguished Reviewers, ACM TOSEM
2023 · Distinguished Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
2023 · Distinguished Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (top 7% of contributors)

2016 · ACM SIGSOFT CAPS travel award to attend FSE 2016 · $1,000
2014 · ACM SIGSOFT travel grant to attend SCAM 2014 · $150
2010 · Erasmus scholarship, Tallinn University of Technology and University of Tartu · €4,500

2026 · Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: From Simulated to Real-world Environments. 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST) at SANER 2026, Limassol, Cyprus
2025 · Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: From Simulated to Real-world Environments. E-SARS Workshop on Embodied and Safe-Assured Robotic Systems at NeurIPS 2025 (virtual)
2024 · Generative AI for Autonomous Driving Systems Testing. NII Shonan Meeting No. 208 “Trustworthy Machine Learning System Engineering Techniques for Practical Applications”, Shonan, Japan
2024 · Generative AI for Autonomous Driving Systems Testing. CAIDAS Workshop: AI for Software Engineering, Würzburg, Germany
2022 · Testing and Evaluation of Autonomous Driving Systems: From Simulated to Real-world Test Environments. AUST 2022, Auburn Hills, USA
2019 · How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Web Development and Testing. ProWeb 2019, Genova, Italy

2026 · Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: From Simulated to Real-world Environments. Guest lecture, ConVeY – Continuous Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems, LMU Munich, Germany
2023 · Software Engineering & Software Testing: What Changes with Deep Learning? The Case of Self-Driving Cars, from Simulated to Real-world Environments. Guest lecture, Web Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Canada (virtual)
2022 · E2E Web Test Automation: A(I) look into the future with an eye to the past. Guest lecture, Web Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Canada (virtual)
2022 · Software Engineering & Software Testing: What Changes with Deep Learning? The Case of Self-Driving Cars, from Simulated to Real-world Environments. Guest lecture, Software Engineering for Data Analytics, University of Genoa, Italy
2021 · E2E Web Test Automation: A(I) look into the future with an eye to the past. Guest lecture, Web Engineering, TU Wien, Austria (virtual)
2019 · Black-box Confidence Estimation for Misbehavior Prediction in Autonomous Driving Systems. 61st CREST Open Workshop, University College London, UK
2019 · Black-box Confidence Estimation for Misbehavior Prediction in Autonomous Driving Systems. University of Szeged, Hungary
2018 · Fine-Grained Test Minimization. Google Journal Club