Dr. Olga Baysal

Biography

Olga Baysal is the Director of the Institute of Data Science and an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2014 and has been involved in various areas of software engineering, particularly in mining software repositories. Baysal focuses her research on understanding how software engineers create, use, and maintain software systems. She applies empirical software engineering techniques to study software development processes and leverages software analytics to support practitioners in their decision-making. Her current research includes topics such as empirical software engineering, code review, recommender systems, mining Stack Overflow and GitHub, natural language processing, qualitative research methods (e.g., surveys, experiments, interviews), and eye tracking. She is a member of the Software Analytics (SWAN) Research Group, which focuses on synthesizing knowledge from development artifacts and reported issues within software engineering communities.

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