Who Are We?

Collaborators

Research Assistants

• Arshi Annafi (2017)
• Rickus Senekal (2017)
• Tyson Bulmer (2017)
• Eirini Kalliamvakou (2016)
• Guy-Warwick Evans (2016)
• Graeme Nathan (2015)
• Logan Kearns (2015)
• Brad Lucas (2015)

Industrial Masters

• Waseem Ullah (2015-2017)
• Yunlong Li (2015-2017)
• Simar Arora (2015-2017)

Alumni

Waqar Hussain, Postdoctoral Fellow (2018)
Challenges of Modern DevOps
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

 

Lloyd Montgomery, MSc (2017)
Escalation prediction using feature engineering: addressing support ticket escalations within IBM’s ecosystem
Now a PhD student at the MAST Research Group in Hamburg, Germany.

 

Navpreet Kaur, MSc (2017)
Source of Emergent Contributors in IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management Ecosystem
Now a data analyst at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure in Victoria BC, Canada.

 

Ali Dehghan, MSc (2017)
Predicting likelihood of requirement implementation within the planned iteration
Now a software developer in Vancouver BC, Canada.

 

Eirini Kalliamvakou, PhD (2013-2016)
A Framework of Collaboration via Autonomy for Commercial Software Teams
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at The CHISEL Group in Victoria BC, Canada.

 

Guy Evans, MSc (2014-2016)
Artificial Intelligence: Where We Came From, Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Going
Now a software engineer in Victoria BC, Canada.

 

Francis Harrison, MSc (2016)
Reference Coupling: A Method for Identifying Software Ecosystems of Technically Dependent Projects
Now a Project Analyst at VIHA in Victoria BC, Canada.

 

Aminah Yussuf, MSc (2015)
An Exploration of Emergent Contributors within IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management Ecosystem
Now a Software Developer at Pacific Geotech Systems in Victoria BC, Canada.

 

Dr. Kelly Blincoe , PhD (2014), Postdoctoral Fellow (2015)
Timely and Efficient Facilitation of Coordination of Software Developers’ Activities
Now a Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

 

Dr. Ville T. Heikkilä, Postdoctoral Fellow (2014)
Case studies on release planning in agile development organizations
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalto University of Finland

 

Dr. Alessia Knauss, PhD (2015)
The Capture and Evolution of Contextual Requirements: The Case of Adaptive Systems
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Chalmers University, Sweden

 

Jyoti Sheoran, MSc (2014)
Analysis of Trajectories of Clarifying Communication of Requirements
Now a Software Developer at AbeBooks, Victoria

 

Prashant Chhabra, MSc (2014)
Analysis of Students’ Learning for Efficient Task Assignment in a Distributed Scrum Setting

 

Angela Rook, MSc (2014)
On the Feasibility of Integrating Data Mining Algorithms into Self Adaptive Systems for Context Awareness and Requirements Evolution
Now a Software Engineer at RevenueWire

 

Jordan Ell, MSc (2014)
An Exploration of Indirect Conflicts
Now a Software Developer at Ruboss

 

Dr. Eric Knauss, Postdoctoral Fellow (2013)
Requirements Engineering and Communication in distributed Software Evolution Projects
Now a Senior Lecturer at Chalmers, University of Gothenburg

 

• • Dr. Jorge Aranda, Postdoctoral Fellow (2012)
    Now a Software Developer at Limbic Media

  • Dr. Adrian Schroeter, PhD (2012)
    Improving social relations betweeen developers by leveraging the concept of socio-technical congruence
    Now a Software Developer at VMware
  • Dr. Irwin Kwan, PhD (2011)
    The study of socio-technical coordination using a socio-technical congruence model
    Now a UX Solution Expert at MatLab
  • Dr. Christian Lescher, PhD (2011)
    Collaboration-based metrics for project management support in global software engineering (co-supervised with Bernd Bruegge, TUM Germany)
    Now a Senior Consultant at Siemens, Germany
  • Dr. Sabrina Marczak, PhD (2011)
    On the uderstanding of requirements driven collaboration: a framework and an empirical investigation
    Now a Professor at PUCRS, Brazil
  • Dr. Rafael Prikladniki, PhD (2010)
    Pattens of evolution in the practice of distributed software development within internal offshoring environments: A capability model
    Now a Professor at PUCRS, Brazil
  • Dr. Timo Wolf, Postdoctoral Fellow (2009)
    Developer communication structures and build success
    Now a Software Researcher at Siemens, Germany
  • Lucas Panjer, MSc (2008)
    Towards a broader understanding of coordination in software engineering: a case study of a software development team
    Now Software Developer at TaskTop Technologies
  • Thanh Nguyen, MSc (2009)
    Communication in software engineering teams
    Now a PhD student at Queens University
  • Andrew Swerdlow, MSc (2008)
    Requirements change awareness
    Now System Architect at Google
  • Teresa Mallardo, Doctoral Research Assistant (2007)
    The role of software inspections in distributed development
  • Fabio Calefato, Doctoral Research Assistant (2007)
    Supporting synchonrous communication in distributed software teams
  • Luis Izquierdo, MSc (2007)
    A case study of feature based awareness in a commercial software team and implications for the design of collaborative tools
    Now project manager at VRX Studios
  • Kedar Shrikhande, MSc (2007)
    A survey of methods to analyze multiple stakeholder requirements conflicts in early planning stages of software development
    Now a PhD student at University of Victoria
  • James Chisan, MSc (2005)
    now Program Manager at Google