Summary

• User Experience and software engineering researcher with a strong background in human factors. With 5+ years of experience conducting software engineering and quantitative and qualitative human factors research with 1500+ users, resulting in 9+ publications in top software engineering conferences.
• Dedicated and motivated team player with demonstrated experience in mentorship, and communicating complex information to diverse audiences, as demonstrated by 3+ conference presentations, teaching 120+ students in 3 intro level classes, and guest lecturing for 3 higher level classes.

Experience

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Human Factors Researcher (Postdoctoral Associate) – January 2023 – Current
    • Collaborated with faculty members from diverse departments to design a large-scale survey on public attitudes toward technology and collected data from 1200 participants.
    • Performed data analysis using SPSS on prior survey data to find patterns and answers about technology attitude and trust questions.
    • Orchestrated user experience project for university researchers, pinpointing pain points and devising improvement strategies via 1:1 interviews and focus groups.
  • Human Factors Researcher (Graduate Research Assistant) – August 2019 – December 2022
    • Developer experience researcher with experience in conducting multiple studies resulting in discovering the best programming tool features and properties for the users.
    • Project management and organizational skills as demonstrated by leading three different studies with 300+ participants.
    • Spearheaded a large-scale online survey study with 250 participants using Qualtrics and an online remote study with 30 participants, resulting in the discovery of developer tool and language usage patterns and preferences.
    • Led an eye-tracking study with 27 participants, resulting in discovering comprehension patterns and the best tool and language features for software defect detection using both the eye-tracking and 1:1 interview data.
    • Efficient data analyst with expertise in Python and Statistical Analysis with in-depth knowledge of eye-tracking data and its intricacies. Experienced in statistical analysis methods such as regressions, ANOVA, and T-Tests.
    • Performed qualitative content analysis of participants’ screen recordings to categorize search queries during code comprehension tasks to understand website usage patterns.
    • Strong communication and presentation skills, as evidenced by 3+ international conference presentations and teaching multiple university classes at different levels.
    • Partnered and collaborated with 4 international scholars from 4 different academic departments across multiple universities, resulting in 9+ scientific publications in top conferences.
    • Commitment to education and mentorship with experience in teaching 3+ intro classes at the university and guest lecturing 3 higher level undergraduate classes, resulting in improved writing and programming skills in computer science students.
    • Dedication to the community demonstrated by volunteering to teach about technology and coding to children and teens in 5+ events in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Software Engineering Researcher – August 2017 – August 2019
    • Software verification researcher with experience in reliability research of cyber physical systems resulting in finding defects in a surgical robot system
    • Published research findings as a scientific paper
      

Contact Information

Skills

• Experimental Design
• Human Subjects Testing
• Recruitment
• Eye Tracking
• User Interviews
• Usability Studies
• Survey Design
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Analysis
• Log Analysis
• A/B Testing

Tools and Software

• Python
• SQL
• Java
• Pandas and Numpy
• HTML and CSS
• Mechanical Turk
• Prolific
• Qualtrics

Education

• Focused on Human Centered Software Engineering
• Dissertation Title: An Empirical Assessment of Formal Models and Static Analysis Alarms in the Context of Defect Detection

• Focused on Software Engineering and Software Reliability
• Thesis Title: Formal Modeling and Analysis of a Family of Surgical Robots