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- Dr. Chris Brown - Faculty
- Yoseph Berhanu - PhD Student
- Dibyendu Brinto Bose - PhD Student
- Xiaoxiao Gan - PhD Student
- Shawal Khalid - PhD Student
- Min Ko - PhD Student
- Hunter Leary - PhD Student
- Huayu Liang - PhD Student
- Arpit Thool - PhD Student
- Swanand Vaishampayan - PhD Student
- Tianjia Wang - PhD Student (co-advisor: Yan Chen)
- Sahar Farzanehpour - M.S. (2025) - Title TBD - TBD
- PeiQing Guo - M.S. (2025) - "Reimagining Graduate Academic Planning: A User-Centered Web Application for the Plan of Study Process" - TBD
- Swetha Rajeev - M.S. (2025) - "Bridging the Gap in Software Engineering Education: Analyzing Learning Behaviors, Challenges, and Resource Effectiveness in Full-Stack Development" - Capital One
- Tian-Yu (Edward) Shiung - M.S. (2025) - "Are Bigger LLMs Always Better? A Study of Open and Closed-Source Models in Code Generation and Translation" - TBD
- Huayu Liang - M.S. (2024) - "Understanding User and Developer Perceptions of Dark Patterns in Online Environments" - PhD at VT
- Md Mahim Haque - M.S. (2023) - "FixEval: Execution-based Evaluation of Program Fixes for Competitive Programming Problems" - Luminary AI
- Nivishree Palvannan - M.S. (2023) - "Impact of Using Suggestion Bot While Code Reviewing" - Torc Robotics
- Ryan Wood - M.S. (2023) - "Understanding the Impact of Dark Pattern Detection on Online Users" - Peraton
- Lucas Franke - M.S. (2023) - "Understanding the Impact of Data Privacy Regulations on Software and Its Stakeholders" - IBM
- Brian Bell - M.S. (2023) - "Understanding the Preparation Phase of Technical Interviews" - Kinsale Insurance
- Sean Gruber - M.S. (2023) - "Gaps in Software Engineering Education" - Peraton