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I am a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in North American universities) in Software Engineering and the Software Engineering Major leader at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Massey University. I am the Director of International Education, leading the School's international and offshore programs, including the Massey-HEBUT joint degree program in Tianjin, China (where I also spend time).
I obtained a PhD from the University of Otago in 2016. Before joining Otago, I spent time at the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), NZ and at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Malaya. I hold an MSc in Software Engineering from Staffordshire University.
My current research focuses on understanding and assessing the quality of software systems.
Perspective Students: I am looking for motivated PhD students to work with me on ongoing software engineering projects. For prospective Ph.D. students, please read here for more details.
Research
Software testing and analysis
Software maintenance and quality
Software security
Program comprehension using static and dynamic analysis
Source code quality
Awards
2023 College of Sciences Research Award (early career) - Massey University.
2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023
2021 IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2021
2021 Distinguished Reviewer Award at IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2021
2018 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2018
2017 Distinguished Artifact Award at European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2017
Grants:
MU Strategic Research Excellence Fund, PI - $30k (2023)
Project title: Detecting security bugs in copied or auto-generated code
SfTI National Science Challenge SEED project, Lead Researcher- $200k (2021-2023)
Project title: Novel approach to detect and predict tests with non-deterministic behaviour
MU Research Fund , PI - $ 10k (2021)
Project title: An investigation of the nature of single/simple statement bugs
SfTI National Science Challenge SEED project, Key researcher - $200k (2021-2022)
Project title: Proofing code reuse: Detecting errors in publicly available software
MU Research Fund, PI - $10k(2021-2022)
Project title: Towards better and more reliable software bugs prediction
SfTI National Science Challenge SEED project, Key researcher - $197k (2017-2019)
Project title: Closing the Gab in Static Program Analysis