Past students

Doctoral students

• Juan Manuel Florez, (2022) Ph.D. dissertation "Automated Fine-Grained Requirements-to-Code Traceability Link Recovery", job after graduation CQSE America

• Samuel Benton, co-advised with Lingming Zhang, (2022) Ph.D. dissertation "Towards Improving Program Repair Via Patch Repair Execution Information" job after graduation Shopify

• Ali Ghanbari, (2021) Ph.D. dissertation "Toward Practical Automatic Program Repair", job after graduation CIFellows Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at the Iowa State University

• Oscar Chaparro, (2019) Ph.D. dissertation: "Automated Analysis of Bug description to Support Bug Reporting and Resolution", job after graduation Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the College of William & Mary, NSF CAREER Award (2023)

• Laura Moreno, (2016) Ph.D. dissertation: "Software Documentation through Automatic Summarization of Source Code Artifacts", job after graduation Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Colorado State University

• Sonia Haiduc, (2013) Ph.D. dissertation: "Supporting Text Retrieval Query Formulation in Software Engineering", job after graduation Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Florida State University, NSF CAREER Award (2019)

• Jairo Hernán Aponte Melo, (2012) Ph.D. dissertation: "Text Summarization Techniques Applied to Source Code Summary Generation and Evaluation", job at graduation Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá

• Denys Poshyvanyk, (2008) Ph.D. dissertation: "Using Information Retrieval to Support Software Maintenance Tasks", job after graduation Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the College of William & Mary, NSF CAREER award (2013).

Post-doctoral students

• Dr. Venera Arnaoudova, (2015): job after graduation Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University, NSF CAREER award (2020)

Masters students (with thesis)

• Whatsala Bandara, (2013) M.S. thesis: " On the Relationship between the Vocabulary of Bug Reports and Soutce Code", Senior .NET Developer at Lear Corporation

• Denise Comorski, (2005) M.S. thesis: "Classification and evaluation of software visualization tools", job after graduation at EDS

• Andrey Sergeyev, (2005) M.S. thesis: "An information retrieval approach to concept location in software", currently Technical Fellow at Parametric Technology Corporation, first position after graduation at Dimensional Control Systems

• Xinrong (Travis) Xie, (2006) M.S. thesis: "Visualization of CVS repository information", job after graduation at PayPal

• Yubo Dong, (2007) M.S. thesis: "IRiSS and JIRiSS - Interactive searching tools for concept location in software systems", job after graduation at PPI Technical Communications

• Gabriel Ciuloaica, (2006) M.S. thesis at Babes-Bolyai University: "Concept location for Eclipse", job after graduation at Nokia Romania

• Bogdan Dit, (2009) M.S. Thesis: "Monitoring the Searching and Browsing Behavior of Developers in Eclipse during Concept Location", after graduation Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the College of William & Mary

Academic genealogy (post 1900)

• Edwin Garrigues Boring (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1914)

• Cooper Harold Langford (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1924)

• Arthur Walter Burks (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1941)

• John Henry Holland (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1959)

• Robert Gene Reynolds (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1979)
  - coadivesd with Kent V. Flannery (Ph.D., U. of Chicago. 1964)

• Jonathan Irvine Maletic (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1995)

• Andrian Marcus (Ph.D., Kent State University, 2003)

  • Denys Poshyvanyk (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2008)

    • Meghan Revelle (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2010)

    • Collin McMillan (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2012)

      • Paul W. McBurney (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2016)

      • Paige Rodeghero (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2018)

      • Ameer Armaly (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2018)

      • Siyuan Jiang (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2018)

      • Sakib Haque (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2022)

      • Alexander LeClair (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2022)

    • Malcom Gethers (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2012)

    • Bogdan Dit (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2015)

    • Mario Linares (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2016)

    • Martin White (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2017)

    • Boyang Li (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2018)

    • Qi Luo (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2018)

    • Christopher Vendome (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2018)

    • Kevin Moran (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2018)

    • Michele Tufano (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2019)

    • Cody Watson (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2020)

    • Carlos Eduardo Bernal Cardenas (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2021)

    • Nathan Cooper (Ph.D., The College of William and Mary, 2023)

  • Jairo Aponte (Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012)

  • Sonia Haiduc (Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2013)

    • Chris Mills (Ph.D., Florida State University, 2019)

    • Esteban Parra (Ph.D., Florida State University, 2022)

  • Laura Moreno (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2016)

  • Oscar Chaparro (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2019)

  • Ali Ghanbari (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2021)

  • Samuel Benton (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022), co-advised with Lingming Zhang

  • Juan Manuel Florez (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2022)