In the realm of academia, the most profound indicator of our success lies in the caliber of students we mentor and prepare for the future. This year, it has been my privilege to collaborate closely with two exceptional individuals, guiding them to the successful completion of their doctoral and postdoctoral training programs.

Mohammad Wardat finished his doctoral training, and defended his PhD thesis. His thesis is noteworthy in that it opened a new sub-field, fault localization within deep neural network. Through a series of papers, his research advanced this area. Dr. Wardat will start his tenure-track position at Oakland University.

Ali Ghanbari and I have collaborated on a number of topics. One of the topic that has gained traction is mutation-based fault localization of deep neural networks that will appear at the 2023 Automated Software Engineering Conference. Dr. Ghanbari will begin his tenure-track position at Auburn University in January 2024.

Congratulations to both!