Hi. I'm Mariam Guizani.

I am a PhD Candidate in the school of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Oregon State University. My work is at the intersection of Software Engineering (SE), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I am passionate about Technology and Human Factors and strive to bring the two together in perfect synergy!

Work Helped Inform GitHub Discussions and Got Featured on GitHub

Honored and grateful that my internship project at Microsoft Research on Maintainers' Dashboard helped inform the GitHub discussion dashboard and was featured in at GitHub 😊

"A big reason we built GitHub Discussions was to make life easier for maintainers—both in engaging and cultivating their communities directly on GitHub and separating out conversations from the daily work. Early on, we tasked ourselves with building a community insights dashboard that would quickly surface community health metrics to maintainers. Our goal was to make it easier for maintainers to understand how active their communities are, and identify ways to attract, teach, and retain contributors. Our research team conducted quantitative and qualitative research activities to understand what a maintainer would actually need to improve their workflows. The first version of our dashboard featured basic metrics—contribution activity, GitHub Discussions page views, daily contributors, and new contributors—that we thought everyone would need. This was a start, but we knew we needed more. That quickly became apparent when we partnered with Dr. Denae Ford, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, and Mariam Guizani, a computer science Ph.D. student at Oregon State University interning at Microsoft Research. Their goal was to determine what improvements would make it easier to “attract and retain [contributors and] newcomers” to open source projects. In a published academic paper, alongside researchers Tom Zimmermann and Anita Sarma, they highlighted a series of maintainer-tested recommendations and presented their findings at the 2022 International Conference on Software Engineering." by Evi Liu Continue Reading >>

I strive to increase Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source

Currently, I work along side my adviser Dr. Anita Sarma at the intersections of Software Engineering (SE), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). I focus on (1) building an empirical understanding of the state of Diversity and Inclusion in OSS and the challenges that this socio-technical ecosystem faces in attracting and retaining contributors and (2) designing interventions to improve the state of Diversity and Inclusion in OSS and increase contributors’ attraction and retention.

In parallel with my research, I have worked alongside the Director of IT Organizational Development at Oregon State University (OSU) to advance OSU IT’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the Apache Software Foundation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team and interned at Microsoft Research.

In 2018, I completed my Master of Science in Computer Science at Oregon State University advised by Dr. Eugene Zhang

I am a Fulbright Alumna and ex Reseach Intern (summer 2021) at Microsoft Research, Redmond Washington.

Experience

2018 - pres

Research Assistant

Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA

2021
Jun - Sep

Research Intern

Microsoft Research Redmond, Seattle, USA Software Analysis and Intelligence (SAINTES) Group Internship project: Attracting and retaining OSS contributors with a maintainer dashboard (more) Project imformed the GitHub Discussion Dashboard and got featured in a GitHub Blogpost

Peer Reviewed Publications

2022

Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard Mariam Guizani , Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford 44th International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Society Track (ICSE SEIS) Print · Pre-print · Data · Conference

2022

How to Debug Inclusivity Bugs? A Debugging Process with Information Architecture Mariam Guizani , Igor Steinmacher, Jillian Emard, Abrar Fallatah, Margaret Burnett, Anita Sarma 44th International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Society Track (ICSE SEIS) Pre-print · Data · Conference

2022

Perceptions of the State of D&I and D&I Initiative in the ASF Mariam Guizani , Bianca Trinkenreich, Aileen Abril Castro-Guzman, Igor Steinmacher, Marco Gerosa, Anita Sarma 44th International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Society Track (ICSE SEIS) Print · Pre-print · Data · Conference

2021

The Long Road Ahead: Ongoing Challenges in Contributing to Large OSS Organizations and What to Do Mariam Guizani , Amreeta Chatterjee, Bianca Trinkenreich, Mary Evelyn May, Geraldine J Noa-Guevara, Liam James Russell, Griselda G Cuevas Zambrano, Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar, Igor Steinmacher, Marco A Gerosa, Anita Sarma 24rd Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), ACM, Volume 5, Article 407, 2021 PDF · Data · Conference

2021

AID: An automated detector for gender-inclusivitybugs in OSS project pages Amreeta Chatterjee, Mariam Guizani , Catherine Stevens, Jillian Emard, Mary Evelyn May, Margaret Burnett, Iftekhar Ahmed, Anita Sarma 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) PDF · Conference

2021

Being a Mentor in open source projects Igor Steinmacher, Sogol Balali, Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani, Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar, Griselda G Cuevas Zambrano, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, Anita Sarma Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), SpringerOpen, volume 12, issue 1 PDF

2021

Pots of Gold at the End of the Rainbow: What is Success for Open Source Contributors Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani , Igor Scaliante Wiese, Tayana Conte, Marco Gerosa, Anita Sarma, Igor Steinmacher IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) PDF · Data

2020

Hidden Figures: Roles and Pathways of Successful OSS Contributors Bianca Trinkenreich, Mariam Guizani , Igor Scaliante Wiese, Anita Sarma and Igor Steinmacher 23rd Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), ACM, Volume 4, Article 180, 2020. PDF · Data · Conference

Services

MENTOR

Mentor (High School Students): Saturday Academy's Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering Program in affiliation with University of Portland.
Mentor (Research Experience for Undergraduates): Mary Evelyn May, Aileen Abril Castro-Guzman, Jillian Renee Emard, Catherine Stevens
Mentor Graduate Students: Zixuan Steve Feng, Pannapat Chanpaisaeng

PAPER REVIEWER

ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)

PAPER SUB-REVIEWER

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE 2019, ICSE 2020, ICSE 2021)
ACM International conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2019, CHI 2020)
ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019, ESEC/FSE 2020, ESEC/FSE 2021)
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2019)
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2020)
ACM International forum on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2020)
IEEE Software (IEEE 2020)