I am currently working as a project scientist at UCI ICS . I have two main interests, namely: research and teaching software engineering courses. My research interests focus on social aspects of collaborations, distributed collaboration , requirements engineering and IT education. I have published in all these areas of interest.
I am working with David Redmiles
and exploring the social and global aspects of software engineering. We were awarded a
Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) grant in 2009 to investigate trust in distributed teams. We are currently preparing to conduct field
studies across three organizations. Ultimately, our goal is to develop support for trust in distributed teams through tools we build
that can be incorporated into developers' existing working environment.
I am also working with Gloria
Mark and Bryan Semaan to investigate Technology use in environments
disrupted by violent conflict.
We have conducted ethnographic studies of users in Iraq and gathered data by conducting interviews with Iraqis currently living in Iraq and by crawling their blogs.
Finally I am working with Michelle Bligh and Agi Horspool, from the School of Behavioral and
Organizational Sciences at the Claremont Graduate University to investigate creativity in virtual teams. We are currently in the early days of our investigation.
I have also been fortunate enough to work with others on different projects, some of which are ongoing:
Andre van der Hoek, Professor at UCI,
Susan Sim, Assistant Professor at UCI,
Keith Edwards, Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo,