I research the intersections of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Software Engineering (SE) areas, mainly on topics related to Open Source Software development.
More in my Research and Teaching Statements
Current Research Topics
- Support for newcomers to Open Source Software
- Bots & GitHub
- Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source Software
- Behavior of contributors in social coding environments
- Gamification as a way to motivate and retain developers
- Crowdsourcing software engineering
- Open Source Software in Education
Partnerships
I am conducting research in partnership with:
- Anita Sarma (Professor @ OSU)
- Christoph Treude (Senior Lecturer @ Univ. of Melbourne)
- Fabio Calefato (Associate Professor @ Univ. of Bari)
- Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto (Assistant Professor @ UFPA)
- Marco Aurélio Gerosa (Associate Professor @ NAU)
- Sabrina Marczak (Associate Professor @ PUCRS)
- Tayana Uchoa Conte (Associate Professor @ UFAM)
- Thelma Elita Colanzi (Associate Professor @ UEM)
Tool
FLOSScoach - a portal to support newcomers to OSS