Organizers of the 2025 International Conference on Mining Software Repositories celebrated exemplary research with awards. Penn State Great Valley assistant software engineering professors Nathalia Nascimento and Everton Guimarães, second and third from left, received the Distinguished Paper Award for their work studying the effectiveness of four large language models in solving data science coding problems, with assistance from two student researchers.
The University Staff Advisory Council (USAC) recognized three outstanding Penn State staff members with 2025 USAC Staff Awards, recognizing their efforts above and beyond their normally assigned job responsibilities and their embodiment of the Penn State Values.
A team of Penn State Great Valley professors and students studied how well large language models, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can solve data science coding challenges. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories and won the Distinguished Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
On May 9, Penn State Great Valley held a commencement ceremony honoring 474 students who have completed their graduate degrees this past academic year. MBA alumna Rina Desai, principal/owner of Eigen X, a professional services firm focused on data and technology, gave the keynote address.
