- Grant proposal on formal methods in scientific software with Dr. Elena Sherman and Dr. Grady Wright was funded by NSF.
- First Ph.D. student, Sharif Ahmed, will join the University of Central Arkansas Computer Science Department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting Fall 2025.
- Mushfiqur Rahman is set to do a summer internship at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).
- Shane Panter passed his Ph.D. proposal.
- Paper 'Testing Research Software: An In-Depth Survey of Practices, Methods, and Tools' accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Journal.
- Paper 'Hold On! Is My Feedback Useful? Evaluating the Usefulness of Code Review Comments' accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Journal.
- Sharif Ahmed and Shariful Alam both passed their Ph.D. proposals; Eric Melin Passed his Ph.D. Comprehensive exam.
- Sharif Ahmed completed a summer internship at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).
- Poster 'Software Testing Practices for Reproducible Open Science' accepted to AGU 2024 Conference.
- Paper 'Understanding Emojis :) in Useful Code Review Comments' accepted to NLBSE 2024 Workshop (Co-Located to ICSE 2024).
- BoF workshop 'Scientific Software and the People Who Make it Happen: Building Communities of Practice' accepted to be held at the SC 2023 Conference.
- Talk 'Peer Code Review in Research Software: Enhancing Quality and Collaboration' accepted to be presented at the US-RSE 2023 Conference.
- Paper 'Exploring the Advances in Identifying Useful Code Review Comments' accepted to ESEM 2023 Conference.
- Five papers accepted at the SERA 2023 conference.
- Grant ($250K) proposal funded by the Alphred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Organized BOF titled 'Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analysis for Science and Engineering' at the Super Computing Conference (SC2).
Research Experience
- Aug 25 - Present: Assistant Professor at UTK
- Aug 21 - Jul 25: BSU
- Sep 20 - Jul 21: Cal Poly
- Aug 16 - Aug 20: UA
- Summer 2019: LANL
- Summer 2017: NCSA
Education
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Background
- Research Interests: Software Engineering, including Empirical Software Engineering, Scientific/Research Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance using AI in fields such as Software Testing, Peer Code Review, and Software Metrics, and Software Engineering Education.
- Position: Assistant Professor in the Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Miscellany
Welcomes fulbright scholars, visiting scholars, postdocs, and researchers from all around the world to join his lab. Feel free to email him.