About

Bonita Sharif, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska USA. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 and MS in 2003 in Computer Science from Kent State University, U.S.A and B.S. in Computer Science from Cyprus College, Nicosia Cyprus. Her research interests are in eye tracking related to software engineering, empirical software engineering, emotional awareness, software traceability, and software visualization to support maintenance of large systems. She has authored over 40 refereed publications. She serves on numerous program committees including ICSME, VISSOFT, SANER, ICSE NIER, and ICPC. She served as general chair of VISSOFT 2016 and ETRA 2018. She is serving as general chair again for ETRA 2019 and as program chair for ICSME 2019 late breaking track. Sharif is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the NSF CRI award related to empowering software engineering with eye tracking. She directs the Software Engineering Research and Empirical Studies Group and the Usability Lab in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UNL.

Google Scholar Citations - h-index: 19, total citations: 937

Labs Directing

Usabliity Lab in the CSE department at UNL

Research Group

Software Engineering Research and Empirical Studies Group

Research Areas of Interest

software engineering, program comprehension, eye tracking, empricial studies, human computer interaction, software traceability, emotional awareness in development

Spring 2019 Teaching

ST: Empirical Methods in Software Engineering

The goal of this course is to cover the various types of resarch methods used in software engineering. Evidence is crucial to support a new idea or solution. The course will focus on all aspects of an experiment: researching a good problem, study design, study instrumentation, and finally analyzing results. Students will learn how to design and conduct a technically sound empirical study for software engineering problems.
(syllabus coming soon)

Recent News

I joined the CSE department at UNL in August of 2018. I have several topics related to my research in software engineering for both undergraduate and graduate students. These topics can be developed into a senior project for undergraduates as well as thesis topics for graduate students. Contact me for more information.

Publications

A full listing of my publications is available on DBLP. A more comprehensive list will be made available on my website soon.

Service

• Program Committee Member for ICSME 2015 ERA track, VISSOFT 2015, SANER 2015, OCWIC 2015, SST 2015 (formerly TEFSE), JSEET 2015, ICPC 2015 Research and ERA tracks, ICPC 2014 (Research and tool demo track), CSEET 2014, ICPC 2013 ERA Track, VISSOFT 2013, TEFSE 2013, CSEET 2013, ICPC 2012 Poster track, CSEET 2012, ICSM 2012, CSEET 2011.
• General chair for VISSOFT 2016.
• Tool Demo track co-chair for ICPC 2016 with Mircea Lungu.
• Demo/Video track co-chair for ETRA 2016 with Preethi Vaidhyanathan.
• Tutorial co-chair for SANER 2015 with Jens Krinke.
• Program co-chair for VISSOFT 2014 with Andy Zaidman - (co-located with ICSME 2014)
• Registration chair for TEFSE 2013 and OCWIC 2015
• Eye movement Data Standards Sub-committee, Cogain.org (2012 - present)

I have reviewed for the following conferences

• Symposium on Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2015)
• Symposium on Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014)
• Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2014) - full and short papers track
• Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2012) - short papers track
• Symposium on Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2013)

I am a reviewer for the following journals.

• IEEE Transactions on Education
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development
• Information and Software Technology
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
• Empirical Software Engineering Journal
• Requirements Engineering Journal
• Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming Journal

I have also served as an additional reviewer for the following conferences and journals.

• Advances in Software Engineering Journal
• International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceability - GCT/TEFSE (2007)
• International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering-PROMISE, (2010)
• IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis - VISSOFT (2009)
• International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories - MSR (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution - IWPSE (2007, 2009)
• ACM Symposium on Software Visualization - SoftVis (2006, 2010 )
• IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension - ICPC ( 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 ) - formally known as IWPC.
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - ASE (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
• IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance - ICSM (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS/UML 2005)
• Working Conference on Reverse Engineering - WCRE (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009)
• Software Quality Journal (SQJ)
• Automated Software Engineering Journal (JASE)
• Empirical Software Engineering Journal
• Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME)
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG Journal)
• Information and Software Technology - Elsevier Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering