Mariam Guizani, PhD.

Dr. Mariam Guizani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Canada. She holds a PhD and second MSc in Computer Science from Oregon State University and was a Fulbright fellowship recipient in 2016-2018. At the intersection of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, her research centers around improving the sustainability of complex socio-technical ecosystems such as Open Source. The broader impact of her work applies to academia, industry, and large OSS organizations. Dr. Mariam Guizani has worked together with Google and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for several years to understand OSS communities’ experiences and design actionable processes and tools. Her research at Microsoft Research was recognized by GitHub for its contribution to the currently deployed GitHub Discussion Dashboard, GitHub Blocks, and their future roadmap ( GitHub blogpost ).

Mariam leads the MUSE (Moving Intelligent User-Centric Software Engineering) lab @ Queen's U

Research Interests: Empirical Software Engineering, Open-Source Software, EDI in Software Engineering, Machine Learning for Software Engineering, Developers' Productivity