Category Archives: News

Congratulations to Dr. Ayda Mannan for successfully defending her dissertation: Investigating the effects of design quality in the OSS projects!

Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How DoMentors Handle It? won the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Open Collaboration! Congratulations Team: Sogol Balali, Umayal Annamalai, Susmita Padala, Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma.

Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It? was accepted into the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2020).

Lifting the Curtain on Merge Conflict Resolution: A Sensemaking Perspective was accepted for the 36th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME).

Hidden Figures: Roles and Pathways of Successful OSS Contributors was accepted for the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

Congratulations to Dr. Brindescu for successfully defending his dissertation: An Investigation of the effects of merge conflicts on collaborative software development!

A Tale from the Trenches: Cognitive Biases and Software Development won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2020! Congratulations Team: Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey Au, Natalia Morales, Christopher Sanchez, Rahul Pandita, Anita Sarma.

What’s Wrong with Computational Notebooks? Pain Points, Needs, and Design Opportunities received an honorable mention for CHI 2020! Congratulations team: Souti Chattopadhyay, Ishita Prasad, Austin Z. Henley, Anita Sarma & Titus Barik.

This year, we are welcoming Jimena Noa, Liam Russell, and Audrey Au as our summer high school interns!

Congratulations to Manideepa for successfully defending her MS thesis!