Listen to this interview of Junhua Ding, Professor of Data Science in the Department of Information Science, University of North Texas. We talk about the part that creativity has to play in the publication of impactful research. Junhua Ding : "Engineering research is different from the sort of pure formal sciences of, say, mathematics, where there may be a theorem to be proved, and then researchers attempt to prove it, and in the process, they provide new methods or directions or even solve the problem. But in software engineering — well, of course, we can work formally, a bit like that, but really, from the engineering point of view, researchers work on applying methods to new domains. And so, our publications in software engineering will often attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness or the drawbacks of a method — so, for example, like the method of GenAI for software testing, but applied to the issue of concurrency. A paper like that is going to be about the application more than it will be specifically about concurrency, you see." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices