Students

Current and former students.

I advise graduate students working across program analysis, empirical software engineering, and reliable ML systems. Prospective students: feel free to reach out by email with a brief note on your interests.

Current students

5 students
Name Program Research title Status
Ana Petrov Ph.D., Computer Science Understanding Developer Trust in Stack Overflow Code Snippets 3rd year
Marcus Chen Ph.D., Computer Science Predicting Risky npm Dependencies Using Crowd Signals 4th year
Priya Nair M.Sc., Software Engineering Mining Issue Trackers to Understand Software Reuse Decisions 2nd year
Tomás Rivera Ph.D., Computer Science Characterizing Package Abandonment in the npm Ecosystem 1st year
Yuki Tanaka M.Sc., Computer Science A Study of Answer Quality and Acceptance on Stack Overflow 2nd year

Former students

6 students
Name Program Research title Status
Elena Fischer Ph.D., Computer Science Empirical Study of Trivial Packages in npm — now Research Scientist at [Company] Graduated 2025
Daniel Osei M.Sc., Software Engineering Mining GitHub Issues to Study Software Evolution — now Software Engineer at [Company] Graduated 2024
Sofia Bianchi Ph.D., Computer Science Crowdsourced Knowledge Reuse in Open-Source Projects — now Assistant Professor at [University] Graduated 2023
Ravi Kumar M.Sc., Computer Science Dependency Risk Prediction in Software Ecosystems — now Software Engineer at [Company] Graduated 2022
Hana Kobayashi Ph.D., Computer Science An Empirical Study of Stack Overflow Answer Reuse — now Research Scientist at [Company] Graduated 2021
Lucas Meyer M.Sc., Software Engineering Mining Software Repositories to Study Maintenance Effort — now Software Engineer at [Company] Graduated 2020