Publications

My Research

2026

The State of Open Science in Software Engineering Research: A Case Study of ICSE Artifacts

A. Muttakin, Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026) (Accepted)

Policies for LLM-Assisted Bug Fixing: Practitioners’ Concerns, Disclosure, Oversight, and Organizational Equilibria

P. Nowshin, Saikat Mondal, D. Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2026) (Under Review)

Human-Aligned Enhancement of Programming Answers with LLMs Guided by User Feedback

S. D. Bappon, Saikat Mondal, C. K. Roy, and K. Schneider

Conference International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026) (Under Review)

Algorithm-Based Pipeline for Reliable and Intent-Preserving Code Translation with LLMs

S. R. Dipto, Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026) (Under Review)

2025

Automatic Assistance for Rollback Edit Inconsistencies in Stack Overflow

Saikat Mondal, G. Uddin, and C. K. Roy

Journal Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2025

Developers’ Engagement and Perceptions of ChatGPT in GitHub Issue Resolution: A Mixed-Methods Study

J. Das, Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Journal Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (Under Revision)

Can We Trust the AI Pair Programmer? Copilot for API Misuse Detection and Correction

Saikat Mondal, C. K. Roy, H. Wang, J. Arguello, and S. Mathan

Conference International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON 2025) (To appear)

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation

Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2025) (To appear)
Distinguished Research Award at ICSAC 2025

From Questions to Insights: Exploring XAI Challenges Reported on Stack Overflow Questions

S. Roy, Saikat Mondal, B. Roy, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2025) (To appear)

GENCNIPPET: Automated Generation of Code Snippets for Supporting Programming Questions

Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025) RR Track
Invited & preparing EMSE journal submission

Why Do Developers Engage with ChatGPT in Issue-Tracker? Investigating Usage and Reliance on ChatGPT-Generated Code

J. Das, Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025) (To appear)
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award EMSE Special Issue Invitation (Under Revision) Featured by the Ministry of AI

Gender Disparities in Contributions, Leadership, and Collaboration: An Exploratory Study on Software Systems Research

S. T. Cynthia, Saikat Mondal, J. Das, and B. Roy

Conference GE@ICSE 2025 (To appear)

2024

Reproducibility of Issues Reported in Stack Overflow Questions: Challenges, Impact & Estimation

Saikat Mondal, and B. Roy

Journal Journal of Systems & Software (JSS), 2024

Question Submission Guideline Violations on Developer Q&A Forums: A Multi-Perspective Study

S. T. Cynthia, Saikat Mondal, and B. Roy

Journal Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (Under Revision)
SOAR Distinguished Research Award 2024 SOAR Woman of the Year Research Award 2024 ICSAC Distinguished Research Award 2024

Risk Factors Categorizations of Ischemic Heart Disease in South-Western Bangladesh

M. Raihan, S. Azam, L. Akter, M. Hassan, R. Quadir, A. Karim, Saikat Mondal, A. More

Journal Data Intelligence, 2024

AUTOGENICS: Automated Generation of Context-Aware Inline Comments for Code Snippets on Programming Q&A Sites Using LLM

S. D. Bappon, Saikat Mondal, B. Roy

Conference IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis & Manipulation (SCAM 2024), Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Oct 2024

Can We Identify Stack Overflow Questions Requiring Code Snippets? Investigating the Cause & Effect of Missing Code Snippets

Saikat Mondal, M. M. Rahman, and C. K. Roy

Conference SANER 2024, Rovaniemi, Finland, March 2024
SOAR Distinguished Research Award 2024

Enhancing User Interaction in ChatGPT: Characterizing and Consolidating Multiple Prompts for Issue Resolution

Saikat Mondal, S. D. Bappon, and C. K. Roy

Conference MSR 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024

Investigating the Utility of ChatGPT in the Issue Tracking System: An Exploratory Study

J. Das, Saikat Mondal, and C. K. Roy

Conference MSR 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024

2023

Do Subjectivity and Objectivity Always Agree? A Case Study with Stack Overflow Questions

Saikat Mondal, M. M. Rahman, and C. K. Roy

Conference MSR 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 2023

Investigating Technology Usage Span by Analyzing Users' Q&A Traces in Stack Overflow

Saikat Mondal, D. Mondal, and C. Roy

Conference APSEC 2023, Seoul, Korea, Dec 2023

2022

Automatic Prediction of Rejected Edits in Stack Overflow

Saikat Mondal, G. Uddin, and C. K. Roy

Journal Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022 (ICSE 2023 Journal-First Track)
SOAR Distinguished Research Award 2025 Doctor Penguin Weekly Top Article (AI)

Reproducibility Challenges and Their Impacts on Technical Q&A Websites: The Practitioners' Perspectives

Saikat Mondal, and B. Roy

Conference ISEC 2022, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India, Feb 2022
Best Paper Award

Why Don’t XAI Techniques Agree? Characterizing the Disagreements Between Post-hoc Explanations of Defect Predictions

S. Roy, G. Laberge, B. Roy, F. Khomh, A. Nikanjam, and Saikat Mondal

Conference ICSME 2022 (NIER), Limassol, Cyprus, Oct 2022

2021

The Reproducibility of Programming-Related Issues in Stack Overflow Questions

Saikat Mondal, M. M. Rahman, C. K. Roy, and K. Schneider

Journal Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2021

Rollback Edit Inconsistencies in Developer Forum

Saikat Mondal, G. Uddin, and C. K. Roy

Conference MSR 2021, Madrid, Spain, May 2021

Early Detection and Guidelines to Improve Unanswered Questions on Stack Overflow

Saikat Mondal, C. M. K. Saifullah, A. Bhattacharjee, M. M. Rahman, and C. K. Roy

Conference ISEC 2021, Bhubaneswar, India, Feb 2021

2020

Automatic Identification of Rollback Edit with Reasons in Stack Overflow Q&A Site

Saikat Mondal, G. Uddin, and C. K. Roy

Conference ICSME 2020 (RR Track), Adelaide, Australia, Sep 2020

2019

Can Issues Reported at Stack Overflow Questions be Reproduced? An Exploratory Study

Saikat Mondal, M. M. Rahman, and C. K. Roy

Conference MSR 2019, Montreal, Canada, May 2019
CSBS People's Choice Award 2021

Risk Prediction of Ischemic Heart Disease Using Artificial Neural Network

M. Raihan, P. K. Mandal, M. M. Islam, T. Hossain, P. Ghosh, S. A. Shaj, A. Anik, M. R. Chowdhury, Saikat Mondal, and A. More

Conference ECCE 2019, Bangladesh, Feb 2019

2018

A Comprehensive Analysis on Risk Prediction of Acute Coronary Syndrome Using Machine Learning Approaches

M. Raihan, M. M. Islam, P. Ghosh, S. A. Shaj, M. R. Chowdhury, Saikat Mondal, and A. More

Conference ICCIT 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 2018

2017

Securing Bangla Text Communication Using Image Steganography with Dynamic Substitution in IoT Environment

A. K. Bairagi, Saikat Mondal, and D. Chakroborti

Journal Khulna University Studies (KUS) Journal, 2017

A Simple Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) Prediction System Using Clinical Data and Data Mining Techniques

P. Nag, Saikat Mondal, F. Ahmed, A. More, and M. Raihan

Conference ICCIT 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 2017

2016

Smartphone Based Ischemic Heart Disease (Heart Attack) Risk Prediction using Clinical Data and Data Mining Approaches, a Prototype Design

M. Raihan, Saikat Mondal, A. More, M. O. F. Sagor, G. Sikder, M. A. Majumder, M. A. A. Manjur, and K. Ghosh

Conference ICCIT 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 2016

An Improved Color Image Steganography Technique in Spatial Domain

Saikat Mondal, R. Debnath, and B. K. Mondal

Conference ICECE 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 2016

2014

A Robust RGB Channel Based Image Steganography Technique using a Secret Key

A. K. Bairagi, Saikat Mondal, and R. Debnath

Conference ICCIT 2013, Khulna, Bangladesh, Mar 2014

2012

A Dynamic Approach in Substitution Based Audio Steganography

A. K. Bairagi, Saikat Mondal, and A. K. Mondal

Conference ICIEV 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 2012

2010

A New Approach of Extendable Multicast Routing Protocol in MANET

M. S. Rahman, Saikat Mondal, S. K. Ghosh, and M. M. Rahman

Conference ICCIT 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 2010

Theses

Investigating the Quality Aspects of Crowd-Sourced Developer Forums: A Case Study of Stack Overflow

Saikat Mondal

M.Sc. Thesis University of Saskatchewan, Canada

A New Approach of Extendable Multicast Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Saikat Mondal, and S. K. Ghosh

B.Sc. Thesis Khulna University, Bangladesh