Olga Baysal, Carleton University

Research

Code review Code summarization Collaborative software development Developer expertise Empirical software engineering Mining software repositories Qualitative and quantitative research methods Recommender systems

Latest funding

Understanding and Leveraging Context in Code Review
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$140,000
Leveraging software analytics to maximize developer productivity during software maintenance.
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$108,000

All 2 grants and awards

Understanding and Leveraging Context in Code Review

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Baysal, Olga

Keywords: code review; empirical software engineering; mining software repositories; recommender systems; developer expertise; code summarization; collaborative software development; qualitative and quantitative research methods; software analytics; software maintenance and evolution

$140,000

Leveraging software analytics to maximize developer productivity during software maintenance.

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Baysal, Olga

$108,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Code review Dear Professor Baysal, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on code review connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Understanding and Leveraging Context in Code Review" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]