Program committee (PC) member for ICSE ’27
Excited and honored to be invited to the program committee (PC) for the ICSE ’27 research track! The conference will take place in Dublin, Ireland between April 25 and May 1, 2027. Please consider submitting!
New doctoral student Tarun Gangadhar Vadaparthi starts Fall 2026
A new doctoral student, Tarun Gangadhar Vadaparthi, will join the team this Fall! Tarun will enter the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He completed his Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo and earned his Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from VNIT Nagpur. He has industry experience as a Data Engineer Intern at Hitachi Solutions and a Software Engineer Intern at Verticross India, and research experience in machine learning systems, software engineering, and computer vision. Welcome to the team, Tarun!
New doctoral student Ryan Bresnahan starts Fall 2026
A new doctoral student, Ryan Bresnahan, will join the team this Fall! Ryan will enter the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He holds a Master of Science in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers University, where he minored in Mathematics. Before joining CUNY PONDER he spent four years as a data scientist in healthcare research consulting and marketing analytics. Welcome to the team, Ryan!
Ad hoc reviewer for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Honored to be an ad hoc reviewer of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) journal.
NYU GSTEM students visit during the summer of 2026
Arisha Johri and Vivian Zhang will join our research group this summer through the NYU GSTEM program. NYU GSTEM is a summer program for high school juniors that allows them to participate in research laboratories. The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences offers the program and helps promote STEM to traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly females and minorities. Arisha and Vivian will be working on a software engineering project as part of our funded NSF project on combating technical debt in Machine Learning systems‘ broader impacts.
Continue Reading →New undergraduate student Işık Kıymac joins the team
A new undergraduate student, Işık Aysel Kıymac, joins our team this summer as a 2026 Cyber NYC Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) participant! Işık is a sophomore in Computer Science and Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has experience building game-theory solvers in Python, an HTTP/1.0 web server in C, and regression and neural-network models for energy prediction. She has served as a Workshop Assistant in Columbia’s Emerging Scholars Program and as a Peer Tutor for Data Structures and Algorithms, is Technical Editor of Columbia’s student news site Bwog, and is a member of Columbia Girls Who Code. Welcome, Işık!
New undergraduate student Mireille Donoso-Kugler joins the team
A new undergraduate student, Mireille Donoso-Kugler, joins our team this summer as a 2026 Cyber NYC Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) participant! Mireille is a rising junior at Barnard College majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Mathematics. She is interested in Machine Learning and Cybersecurity, and hopes to pursue Ph.D. studies in Computer Science. At Barnard she is an events coordinator for Women in Computer Science (WiCS) and serves on the board of Project Tutors. Her other interests include photography, dance and choreography, and volunteering with local organizations. Welcome, Mireille!
Selected for the CRA Emerging Leaders Cohort
I’m honored to have been selected for the 2026 CRA Emerging Leaders Cohort—a program organized by the Computing Research Association that brings rising leaders into the CRA Summit community. The cohort will convene at the 2026 CRA Summit alongside department chairs, deans, and other senior leaders shaping the future of computing research.
Many thanks to my department chair, Ping Ji, for the nomination.
Judge for the 2026 New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYCSEF)
I will be judging at the second (in-person) round of the 2026 New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYSSEF) on March 30. Please come out to support our city’s aspiring scientists and engineers.
Co-founder of the JSPS US & Canada Alumni Association Northeast Chapter
Together with Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), I’ve co-founded the Northeast Chapter of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) US & Canada Alumni Association. The chapter connects JSPS fellowship alumni across the northeastern U.S. to foster collaboration, mentorship, and continued U.S.–Japan research exchange. I look forward to helping the community grow.
