ACM India Winter School · Women only
AISE Winter School 2027
AI-Infused Software Engineering — Research and Practice. Agentic AI in software engineering, and software engineering for agentic AI.
- Dates
- 04–13 January 2027
- Place
- IIIT Bangalore
- Length
- Ten days
- Admission
- Women only
The school
- Name
- AI-Infused Software Engineering (AISE) — Research and Practice
- Host institution
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International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
26/C, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bengaluru 560100, Karnataka, India - Dates
- 4 January – 13 January 2027
- Contact
- meenakshi@iiitb.ac.in
- Admission
- Women only — advanced UG, Master’s and PhD students. Enthusiastic undergraduates welcome.
Sponsors
Brief description
Software engineering is trending toward heightened autonomy and intelligence. Agentic AI and autonomous agents go beyond standard AI: they pursue goals, adapt to their environment, and communicate.
A primary aim of this winter school is to give participants a foundational grasp of Agentic AI through a software engineering lens. The curriculum connects theoretical frameworks with real-world implementation, exploring both directions of the relationship — Agentic AI for software engineering, and the engineering requirements of AI agents themselves.
Through lectures, practical labs and collaborative brainstorming, attendees engage with large language models and generative tools. The school covers the design and coordination of autonomous agents, decision-making frameworks, and tool-based agent construction.
It also addresses scalability, reliability, sustainability and the carbon footprint of AI-intensive systems.
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Practical capability
Deploy AI agents that improve software quality and developer productivity.
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Research momentum
Multi-agent cooperation, symbolic AI integration, trustworthy AI.
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A community
A standing group advancing AI-infused software engineering processes.
Topics covered
Five themed modules across ten days. The day-wise schedule will be announced.
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01
Introduction to Agentic AI, and how AI agents work
- Fundamentals of AI agents
- Traditional AI versus Agentic AI
- What “agency” means in AI
- Architecture of AI agents
- The agent loop — plan, act, observe, reflect
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02
Agentic AI in software engineering
- Coding agents
- Testing agents
- Debugging agents
- DevOps, release and support agents
- Documentation and onboarding agents
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03
Software engineering for Agentic AI
- Requirements for agentic systems
- Agent architecture and orchestration
- Observability and traceability
- Testing and evaluation
- Safety, permissions, rollback, guardrails
- Cost, latency, reliability, sustainability
- Governance and human oversight
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04
Hands-on mini project
- Apply agentic concepts practically
- Build an agentic framework with real SE concerns
- Experience AI-assisted development
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05
Ethics, limitations and the future
- Risks and limitations
- The future of AI in software engineering
How it runs
Research talks
The rationale and methods behind integrating AI into SE practice.
Tutorial sessions
Practical application, industry practice, and honest limitations.
Hands-on labs
Experiment with building tools in the AI + SE space.
Teams from day one
Groups form on day one for collaboration and the mini-project.
Demonstrations
Product and technology showcases, plus mini-project demos.
Case studies
Real industrial deployments and what broke in them.
Speakers
Tentative list — more to be added
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Alpana Dubey
Accenture Labs
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Sridhar Chimalakonda
IIT Tirupati
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Chetan Arora
Monash University
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Diptikalyan Saha
IBM Research
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Saurabh Tiwari
DAU Gandhinagar
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Santosh Singh Rathore
ABV-IIITM Gwalior
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Vinu E V
IIIT Bangalore
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Sahana Prabhu
IIIT Bangalore
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Vasu Malhotra
Monash University
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Karthik Vaidhyanathan
IIIT Hyderabad
Before you come, and where you stay
Background recommended
Basics of programming. Familiarity with Python helps, but the labs start from first principles.
Infrastructure
Hosted at the IIIT Bangalore campus — lecture halls, labs and hostels all in one place.
Software used
Python and LangChain. Bring a laptop; setup instructions go out before the school.
Accommodation
IIIT Bangalore campus hostels, twin sharing.
Registration — via ACM India
Applications are handled by ACM India
Eligibility and the application process are listed on the ACM India winter schools page. Questions — meenakshi@iiitb.ac.in
ACM India winter schools →Organisers
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Meenakshi D’Souza
IIIT Bangalore
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Saurabh Tiwari
DAU Gandhinagar
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Santosh Singh Rathore
ABV-IIITM Gwalior
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Alpana Dubey
Accenture Labs
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Sridhar Chimalakonda
IIT Tirupati
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Chetan Arora
Monash University