New Faculty SymposiumASE 2025

Becoming a new faculty member at a university or college is challenging due to the number of roles a faculty member plays and the lack of preparation for these roles. Moreover, doctoral training most likely has not prepared the new faculty member for much beyond how to conduct research themselves and, perhaps, how to teach topics that are close to their research area. The great news is that most faculty members transcend all these challenges and feel they have a most rewarding, intellectually stimulating, and flexible career, and they don’t want to retire! The goals of the ASE 2025 New Faculty Symposium (NFS) are to help new Software Engineering faculty members launch a successful career and manage the challenges while feeling joy in their life as a faculty member.

How to Particpate

Any interested participant can sign up for the symposium. There is no application process. The symposium will be especially useful for anybody with a doctorate, self-identifying as having a new academic position (e.g., postdocs, junior faculty position). However, prospective faculty members and mid-career faculty members can also benefit from sharing experiences, questions, answers, and viewpoints.

Speakers and Panelists

We are excited to have the following speakers and panelists at the symposium:

• David Lo, Singapore Management University
• Jie M. Zhang, King’s College London
• Lingming Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Owolabi Legunsen, Cornell University
• Shane McIntosh, University of Waterloo
• Zhongxin Liu, Zhejiang University

Please see the program for details.