The Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER) is a research lab in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. LASER is dedicated to creating scientific advances that reduce the cost of engineering software systems while simultaneously improving their quality.
Emily First, Abhishek Varghese, Yuriy Brun, Hadeel Eladawy, Sabrina Zaman Ishita, Heather Conboy, and Zhanna Kaufman. Spring 2023
For several decades, LASER has been a diverse group of faculty, postdocs, and students, working to improve the process of engineering software. Hear the story of Emily (now a postdoc at UCSD) getting her PhD in LASER: