Awards and Recognitions

Honorary Doctorate Degree, University of Gothenburg, 2018: Awarded the honorary doctorate degree from the IT faculty at the University of Gothenburg.

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Goal Centric Traceability for Supporting Impact Analysis of Systemic Qualities, 2005-2010.

ACM Distinguished Paper awards at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  • 2010: Jane Cleland-Huang, Adam Czauderna, Marek Gibiec, John Emenecker: A machine learning approach for tracing regulatory codes to product specific requirements. ICSE (1) 2010: 155-164
  • 2011: Horatiu Dumitru, Marek Gibiec, Negar Hariri, Jane Cleland-Huang, Bamshad Mobasher, Carlos Castro-Herrera, Mehdi Mirakhorli: On-demand feature recommendations derived from mining public product descriptions. ICSE 2011: 181-190
  • 2012: Mehdi Mirakhorli, Yonghee Shin, Jane Cleland-Huang, Murat Çinar: A tactic-centric approach for automating traceability of quality concerns. ICSE 2012: 639-649
  • 2018: Michael Rath, Jacob Rendall, Jin L. C. Guo, Jane Cleland-Huang, Patrick Mäder: Traceability in the wild: automatically augmenting incomplete trace links. ICSE 2018: 834-845
ACM Distinguished Paper award at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  • 2010: Marek Gibiec, Adam Czauderna, Jane Cleland-Huang: Towards mining replacement queries for hard-to-retrieve traces. ASE 2010: 245-254
Best Paper Award, Requirements Engineering Conference
  • 2002: Jane Cleland-Huang, Carl K. Chang, Gaurav Sethi, Kumar Javvaji, Haijian Hu, Jinchun Xia: Automating Speculative Queries through Event-Based Requirements Traceability. RE 2002: 289-298
  • 2006: Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Xuchang Zou, Peter Solc: The Detection and Classification of Non-Functional Requirements with Application to Early Aspects. RE 2006: 36-45
  • 2007: Paula Laurent, Jane Cleland-Huang, Chuan Duan: Towards Automated Requirements Triage. RE 2007: 131-140
IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software: Theory and Practice, 2006
  • 2006: Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Xuchang Zou, Peter Solc: The Detection and Classification of Non-Functional Requirements with Application to Early Aspects. RE 2006: 36-45
Selected by IEEE Software's 25th Anniversary edition as one of the 35 most influential articles (2009) from the past 25 years.
  • Cited as "Pioneering idea that had an impact"
  • Mark Denne, Jane Cleland-Huang: The Incremental Funding Method: Data-Driven Software Development. IEEE Software 21(3): 39-47 (2004)