Scholar
Robert Dyer
Google Scholar ID: -tLiAa8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Citations & Impact
Citations
604
H-index
9
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'Boa: A Language and Infrastructure for Analyzing Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repositories' at ICSE 2013
- Received Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2021 for 'Escaping the Time Pit: Pitfalls and Guidelines for Using Time-Based Git Data'
- Received Best Paper Award at MODULARITY 2015 for 'Modular Reasoning in the Presence of Event Subtyping'
- Multiple recent publications in top venues (ICSE, MSR, EMSE 2025) on topics including LLM-based code issue localization, Python test datasets, and Kotlin type inference usage
- Advising Ph.D. and Master's students, including Fatemeh Raei Dehaghi (Ph.D.) and Idriss Abdelmadjid (Master's)
- Serving on program committees and as co-chair for major conferences including ICSE 2026, MSR 2026, FSE 2026, and ICSME 2026
Background
- Research interests focus on software engineering and programming languages
- Applies data analytics techniques (e.g., mining software repositories) to study how developers use programming language features
- Believes future programming languages can be better designed by leveraging empirical data
- Works on ARG-V and PAClab for automatically generating benchmark programs for program analysis researchers
- Lead researcher and engineer for the Boa language and infrastructure, a virtual lab for data-intensive research on ultra-large-scale open-source software repositories
