Team

I’ve had / am having the privilege of (co)supervising the following PhD students, post-docs, scientific programmers and MSc students:

PhDs

• Elvan Kula (May 2019): Software process optimization, also at ING
• Joseph Hejderup (Feb 2017): Dependency management and static analysis

Former team members

Postdocs

• Ayushi Rastogi (Jul 2018 - May 2021), working on developer productivity (also with Arie van Deursen). Now assistant professor at the University of Groningen
• Enrique Larios (Jul 2017 – Jul 2020). Worked on the CodeFeedr project (also with SIG). Now postdoc at the University of Victoria.
• Moritz Beller (Jan 2018 – May 2020). Worked on software analytics. Now research engineer at Facebook.
• Maria Kechagia (May 2017 – May 2019). Worked on static analysis. Now postdoc at UCL.

PhDs

• Mehdi Keshani (May 2019): Dependency management and static analysis. Now supervised by Sebastian Procksh.

• Amir Mir (Oct 2019): Dependency management and machine learning. Now supervised by Sebastian Procksh.

• Moritz Beller (Jan 2014 – Dec 2018): Feedback-driven software development (thesis) (co-promotor)

Scientific Developers

• Wouter Zorgdrager (Feb 2019 - Nov 2021), in the FASTEN project
• Joseph Hejderup (2015 – 2016) on the Pourquoi project.

Visitors

• Maliheh Izadi (Jan 2020 - Jun 2020): Machine learning for Software Engineering
• Xunhui Zhang (Oct 2019 - Oct 2020): Software analytics
• Chushu Gao (Jan 2018 – Jan 2019), worked on software analytics, now at SIG
• Riivo Kikas (Feb 2016 – Jul 2016), worked on language ecosystem evolution

Master’s students

• Pradyot Patil (May 2020): Identifying Informative System Metrics: Predicting the predictability of time series using entropy thesis
• Algirdas Jokubauskas (Feb 2019): Investigating dependency code reuse using callgraphs thesis
• Ernst Mulders (Dec 2018): Data Driven Decisions: Validating and Supporting a Continuous Experimentation Development Environment (thesis).
• Elvan Kula (Feb 2018): Releasing fast and slow: a case study of rapid releases at ING (thesis, FSE 2019 paper). Now PhD student at SERG.
• Niels van Kaam (thesis): Epoch alignment in stateful streams.
• Rik Nijessen (2017): A Case for Deep Learning in Mining Software Repositories (thesis). Now at Adyen.
• Herman Banken (2017): Debugging data flows in reactive programs (thesis, RxFiddle, ICSE 2018 paper). Now at Q42.
• Yannic Smeets (2015): Improving the Adoption of Dynamic Web Security Vulnerability Scanners (thesis)
• Erik van der Veen (2014): Automatic prioritization of pull requests (paper, thesis)
• Phil Hunte: Automated data migration based on model coupled transformation (thesis)