Gema Rodríguez-Pérez
Scholar

Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

Google Scholar ID: QijxP8AAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (Okanagan)
Empirical StudiesMining software repositoryCode reviewBug-Introducing Changeshuman aspects in SE
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
727
 
H-index
11
 
i10-index
13
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
11
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple research papers on topics such as diversity and inclusion in software engineering, gender differences in interactions with code generation tools, and the IDE telemetry data extraction tool CodeWatcher. Participated in numerous international conferences and journal publications, including the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Information and Software Technology, etc.
Research Experience
  • Assistant Professor at the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Math, Physics & Statistics, University of British Columbia.
Background
  • Research interests include Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), Maintenance and Support (MSR), Open Source Software (OSS), and Social Aspects of SE, Diversity and Inclusion in SE. Loves empirical software studies that mine open source software repositories to create large datasets. Uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques to understand current technical and non-technical software problems and determine approaches that can help to solve them. In the technical part, conducts bug localization and prediction studies to improve software products and assist quality assurance teams in reallocating their economic resources; in the non-technical part, focuses on analyzing collaborative software development with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.