Publications in top-tier SE venues: ICSE, FSE, ASE, MSR, EMSE, TOSEM, JSS, IST, JMIR Infodemiology
Multiple 2025 acceptances: ASE 2025 (Research Paper, 9.4% direct acceptance rate), MSR 2025, EMSE (two papers), IST, ICSME 2025 (Tool Demo), NLBSE 2025, MSR 2024 (Data Showcase)
Research featured in media: Drexel CCI news, ABB news, Compassionate Coding Newsletter
Students awarded: Ramtin Ehsani – Drexel CCI Research Excellence Award; Amirali Sajadi – Drexel CS Leadership Award
Co-founded the ACM-W Chapter at University of Delaware
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel University
Leads the SOftware Engineering and Analytics Research (SOAR) Lab
Research focuses on Software Engineering, especially developing tools, knowledge sources, and strategies to support software maintenance and improve developer productivity
Integrates evidence from mining software repositories, empirical studies, and state-of-the-art techniques from NLP and Machine Learning to address SE challenges
Research interests include LLM-assisted software development and maintenance, developer collaboration in distributed teams, and knowledge extraction from large-scale software artifacts