Ban Al-Ani

BSc., MSc., DipEd, PhD.

balani[at]ics[dot]uci[dot]edu

Resume

Overview

I am currently working as a project scientist at UCI ICS with the Continuous Coordination (CC) research team developing means to implement the principles of the CC paradigm . I have two main interests, namely: research and teaching software engineering courses . My research interests focus on Distributed Groupwork , Requirements Engineering and IT Education. I have published in all these areas of interest.

I am working closely with David Redmiles exploring the social and global aspects of software engineering. We are currently in the early stages of researching various means to further involve the global user in the development process. The ultimate goal being to enable developers to meet user needs more successfully.

I am also collaborating with Andre van der Hoek and Angelo Pioli to develop means to augment existing software engineering environments. We aim to further develop the usefulness and usability of these environments. This project is still in its infancy and we intend to initiate empirical studies to investigate the feasibility of our approach.

I have also recently been invited by Gloria Mark to collaborate on the "Technology use in disrupted environments" project she initiated. Finally, I am also acting as a mentor and supervisor to Leyna Cotran, a Ph.D. candidate at ICS, UCI.