Legacy Modernization, Energy-Aware Software, AI Compliance and Multilingual Software Engineering
Legacy Modernization, Energy-Aware Software, AI Compliance and Multilingual Software Engineering: Research at RISHA Lab, IIT Tirupati
This talk gives a broad overview of the research at RISHA Lab, IIT Tirupati, India in software engineering and its role in society. I will briefly cover our work as below:
- legacy system modernization, including COBOL
- energy-aware software engineering
- AI governance and regulatory compliance
- multilingual and multimodal software engineering
- computing for society, through educational games and AR-based storytelling
Bio: Sridhar Chimalakonda is an Associate Professor and Head of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Tirupati, India, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He leads RISHA Lab, which works on legacy modernization, energy-aware software and AI governance. The lab has released over 22 open-source tools. Its work is funded by IBM, Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Toshiba, ANRF and DST. The lab follows an undergraduate-led research model, with more than 18 student-led papers at top venues. He works with groups at Waterloo and Polytechnique Montréal, and co-organizes the AISM workshop at ASE. He is a co-editor of 10 ISO/IEC standards, liaises between ISO/IEC SC7 and SC42, and chairs the ACM SIGSOFT RISE Task Force on AI and SE in India.