Student Updates

Negar Ghorbani’s (J. Garcia and S. Malek, advisors) paper titled “Detection and Repair of Architectural Inconsistencies in Java” was presented in the Technical Track at ICSE 2019, which was held in Montreal, Canada in May. The paper is co-authored by her advisors Prof. Joshua Garcia and Prof. Sam Malek. The tool developed in this project, Darcy, received two artifact badges during the ICSE artifact evaluation: Reusable and Available.

Maruf Zaber (C. Lopes, advisor) is interning this summer at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. Zaber is working with a team in Google Cloud. His supervisor is James Nam.

Farima Farmahinifarahani’s (C. Lopes, advisor) paper titled “On precision of code clone detection tools” was presented at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), held in Hangzhou, China in February. The paper is co-authored by alumnus Dr. Vaibhav Saini (Microsoft), Ph.D. student Di Yang, alumnus Dr. Hitesh Sajnani (Microsoft), and Farmahinifarahani’s advisor Prof. Cristina Lopes.

Fatema Akbar (G. Mark, advisor) presented her paper titled “Email Makes You Sweat: Examining Email Interruptions and Stress Using Thermal Imaging” at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), which was held in Glasgow, Scotland in May. The paper is co-authored by Ayse Elvan Bayraktaroglu, Pradeep Buddharaju, Dennis Rodrigo Da Cunha Silva, Ge Gao, Ph.D. student Ted Grover, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Nathan Cooper Jones, Akbar’s advisor Prof. Gloria Mark, Ioannis Pavlidis, Kevin Storer, Zelun Wang, Amanveer Wesley, and Shaila Zaman.

Ted Grover (G. Mark, advisor) presented his Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) journal-first paper titled “Moral and Affective Differences in U.S. Immigration Policy Debate on Twitter” at the 17th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) held in June in Salzburg, Austria. The paper is co-authored by Elvan Bayraktaroglu of Istanbul Technical University, his advisor Prof. Gloria Mark, and Ph.D. student Eugenia Ha Rim Rho. Grover also presented the paper titled “Detecting Potential Warning Behaviors of Ideological Radicalization in an Alt-Right Subreddit” at the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), held in Munich, Germany in June. The paper is co-authored by Prof. Mark.

Yang Yue (D. Redmiles, advisor) presented his poster titled “Collaboration in Global Software Development: An Investigation on Research Trends and Evolution” at the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), co-located with ICSE in May in Montreal, Canada. The poster is co-authored by Prof. Iftekhar Ahmed, Prof. Yi Wang (RIT), and Yue’s advisor Prof. David Redmiles.

Reyhaneh Jabbarvand (S. Malek, advisor) presented her paper titled “Search-Based Energy Testing of Android” in the Technical Track of ICSE 2019 held in Montreal, Canada in May. The paper is co-authored by Ph.D. student Jun-Wei Lin and her advisor Prof. Sam Malek. The paper has been selected to be featured in the Practitioners Digest column for IEEE Software. Jabbarvand also served on the artifact evaluation committee for ICSE 2019, and received a SIGSOFT CAPS travel award to attend.

Adriana Meza Soria (A. van der Hoek, advisor) presented her poster titled “Collecting Design Knowledge through Voice Notes” at the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) held at ICSE 2019, in Montreal, Canada in May. The poster is co-authored by her advisor Prof. André van der Hoek

Rui Hao (J. Jones, host) a second-year Ph.D. student visiting from Nanjing Univ., China, presented her paper titled “CTRAS: Crowdsourced Test Report Aggregation and Summarization” in the Technical Track of the Internationall Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), held in Montreal, Canada in May. The paper is co-authored by Ph.D. student Yang Feng, Prof. James Jones, and Yuying Li and Prof. Zhenyu Chen of Nanjing Univ.

Di Yang (C. Lopes, advisor) is co-author on the paper titled “Analyzing and Supporting Adaptation of Online Code Examples,” presented in the Technical Track at ICSE 2019, in Montreal, Canada in May. The paper is authored by Tianyi Zhang (UCLA), Yang, her advisor Prof. Cristina Lopes, and Prof. Miryung Kim (UCLA).

Kaj Dreef (J. Jones, advisor) is interning this summer at Sony - PlayStation Now in Aliso Viejo, CA. He will assist the Hardware & Systems Engineering team in the development of PlayStation Now server technology and Content Delivery Network technology.

Wen Shen (C. Lopes, advisor) is presenting his paper “Multi-Winner Contests for Strategic Diffusion in Social Networks” at the Thirty- Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), in Honolulu, HI in late January. The paper is co-authored by Ph.D. student Yang Feng and Shen’s advisor Prof. Cristina V. Lopes.

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