Kristin Roher (D. Richardson, advisor) has been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines, and provides three years of support including a $30,000 annual stipend.  Roher also presented her paper “A Proposed Recommender System for Eliciting Software Sustainability Requirements” at the 2nd Workshop on User Evaluations for Software Engineering Researchers (USER) at ICSE 2013 in May. The paper was co-authored by her advisor Debra Richardson.  

Dakuo Wang (G. Mark, G. Olson, advisors) is spending his summer as an intern at IBM Research China Lab in Beijing where he’ll be doing a user study on social media usage in an organizational setting, and building correlations between a user’s online behavior and their personality traits.

Thomas Debeauvais (C. Lopes, advisor) spent his summer as an intern at PARC in Palo Alto, CA where he worked on data mining and business intelligence for World of Warcraft™ data, predicting what motivates people to play, how dedicated people perceive themselves, and differences between Taiwan/China and Europe/US.

Bart Knijnenburg (A. Kobsa, advisor), interned this summer at Samsung Information Systems America (SISA) R&D Center in San Jose. The focus of his project was to understand and influence the user’s decision to share their location.  He also presented his paper “Inspectability and Control in Social Recom-menders” at the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012), in Dublin, Ireland, in Sept. The paper was co-authored by Svetlin Bostandjiev and John O’Donovan of UC Santa Barbara, and his advisor Prof. Alfred Kobsa. 

Gerald Bortis’s (A. van der Hoek, advisor) paper “PorchLight: A Tag-based Approach to Bug Triaging” has been accepted to the 35th Int’l Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013) to be held in San Francisco, CA in May. The paper is co-authored by his advisor, Prof. André van der Hoek.