Currently advised students - SEERS Group

• Ying Zhou, doctoral student, expected graduation TBD

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

Ph.D. committee member

• Carlos Bernal-Cardenas, Ph.D. (2021), The College of William and Mary, US - advisor Denys Poshyvanyk
• Abdul Razzaq, Ph.D. (2019), University of Limerick, Ireland - advisor Jim Buckley
• Kevin Moran, Ph.D. (2018), The College of William and Mary, US - advisor Denys Poshyvanyk
• Ebrahim Khalaj, Ph.D. (2017), Wayne State University, US - advisor Marwan Abi-antoun
• Luca Ponzanelli, Ph.D. (2017), Universita Swizerra italiana, Switzerland - advisor Michele Lanza
• Annie T.T. Ying, Ph.D. (2016), McGill University, Canada - advisor Martin Robillard
• Bogdan Dit, Ph.D. (2015), The College of William and Mary, US - advisor Denys Poshyvanyk
• Sebastiano Panichella, Ph.D. (2014), University of Sannio, Italy - advisor Massmiliano Di Penta
• Radu Vanciu, Ph.D. (2014), Wayne State University, US - advisor Marwan Abi-antoun
• Steven She, Ph.D. (2013), University of Waterloo, Canada - advisor Krzysztof Czarnecki
• Anjan Pakhira, Ph.D. (2013), Newcastle University, UK - advisor Peter Andras
• Lijie Zou, Ph.D. (2013), University of Waterloo, Canada - advisor Michael W. Godfrey
• Malcom Gethers, Ph.D. (2012), The College of William and Mary, US - advisor Denys Poshyvanyk
• Chuan Duan, Ph.D. (2009), DePaul University, US - advisor Jane Huang
• Maksym Pentrenko, Ph.D. (2009), Wayne State University, US - advisor Vaclav Rajlich
• Bogdan Done, Ph.D. (2009), Wayne State University, US - advisor Sorin Draghici
• Kunrong Chen, Ph.D. (2004), Wayne State University, US - advisor Vaclav Rajlich

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