Nicholas Lopez (A. van der Hoek, advisor) has been awarded the Miguel Velez Scholarship, which is for graduate students who demonstrate outstanding past academic achievement as well as future promise, and who are citizens of a Latin American country. 

Xinning Gui (B. Nardi, advisor) is interning at the Center for Sustainable Communications, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden conducting a field study in the Swedish ecovillage Änggärdet on understanding how to combine sustainability knowledge with information and communication technology in creating sustainable communities. She is collaborating with her advisor Prof. Bonnie Nardi, Prof. Daniel Pargman at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Prof. Teresa Cerratto Pargman at Stockholm University.

Alegria Baquero (R. Taylor, advisor) is a summer intern at Bloomberg, working under the supervision of alumnus Justin Erenkrantz, Head of Cloud Architecture. She is working on understanding role-based permissions to Bloomberg’s internal and external services through a COAST- and formal policy-based access control approach.  Baquero’s internship is part of Bloomberg’s sponsorship of ISR.

Vaibhav Saini’s (C. Lopes, advisor) paper, “A Dataset for Maven Artifacts and Bug Patterns Found in Them,”  was accepted to the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2014), co-located with ICSE 2014. The paper was co-authored by fellow Ph.D. student Hitesh Sajnani, alumnus Joel Ossher, Palantir Technologies, and Saini’s advisor Prof. Cristina Lopes.

Oliver Yi Wang’s (D. Redmiles advisor) paper, “New Opportunities for Extracting Insights from Cloud Based IDEs,” was awarded the NIER Innovation and Potential Impact award at ICSE 2014 in May. The paper was based on work Wang did on a summer internship at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked for Patrick Wagstrom. The paper was co-authored by Wagstrom, Evelyn Duesterwald of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and Wang’s advisor Prof. David Redmiles.