Kaj Dreef (J. Jones, advisor) will be interning this summer for Sony in Aliso Viejo, CA. He will be assisting the Hardware & Systems Engineering team in development of PlayStation Now server technology and Content Delivery Network technology. His manager is Kim Low. This is the second summer that Dreef is interning for Sony in Aliso Viejo.

Ted Grover (G. Mark, advisor) is first author on the paper titled “Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Agent Prototypes for Assistance with Focus and Productivity at Work,” which was accepted to the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). The paper is co-authored by Kael Rowan, Jina Suh, Daniel J. McDuff, and Mary Czerwinski, all of Microsoft Research. This paper is a result of Grover’s internship at Microsoft Research in summer 2019, where he worked under the supervision of Czerwinski and McDuff.

David Tamas Kutas (A. van der Hoek, advisor) will present his paper titled “Linecept: An Early Prototype of a Timeline-Based Design Coordination Tool” at the 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2020) to be held with virtually with ICSE in July. The paper is co-authored by M.S. SE students Aditya Nair and Prerna Singh, Ph.D. student Emily Kan (UCI Social Ecology), visiting professor Janet Burge (Colorado College), and Kutas’ advisor Prof. André van der Hoek.

Negar Ghorbani (J. Garcia and S. Malek, advisors) is interning this summer at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA. She will be working on mining developer forums (such as StackOverflow) to synthesize and suggest repairs for program crashes. Her manager is Mukul Prasad, Director of the Research department.

Farima Farmahinifarahani (C. Lopes, advisor) will be a research intern this summer for Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Her project will focus on devising and evaluating a predictive test selection strategy based on the changes since the last execution of the system. Her manager is Sina Jafari.