Chris Parnin

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About

I'm a Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech studying software engineering. In addition to studying software engineering, I have worked and interned at various organizations including Microsoft Research and GTRI. I'm advised by Spencer Rugaber , but also honored to work with lots of folks.

Contact: chris.parnin@gatech.edu

Research

I study the empirical, hci, and cognitive neuroscience aspects of software development. I look at how software development occurs in practice and how certain tools help or hinder this process.

I have studied refactoring, fault localization, interruptions, language adoption, blogging, and code visualization.

I have used electrodes, instrumentation, interviews, data mining, surveys, and controlled experiments in the process.

See more details in Publications or Google Scholar Publications.

Visit my Blog, where I write up details on tools and studies.

Latest

2013

Most Promising Idea Award for "Blogging Developer Knowledge"
"Programmer, Interrupted" printed in Game Developers Magazine (April) and Gamasutra
Over 155k visits in a week for "Programmer, Interrupted". Read it!
We won the kaggle contest for best Stack Overflow visualization: winner's page.
LIVE 2013 workshop co-chair. Win $500 for best live programming demo!
USER 2013 PC Member. Submit a user study you need help with!
MSR 2013 Challenge PC Member. Win a Surface for best mining of Stack Overflow data.
MOBS 2013 PC Member. Research on mobile development needed!

2012

Invited to MSR Vision week in Kingston.
Plateau PC Member, submit your paper here.
Best Paper awarded for "Programmer Information Needs After Memory Failure", with Rugaber.
Crowd documentation strikes gold, see blog summary, over 15,000 blog visitors in a week: "Crowd Documentation: Exploring the Coverage and the Dynamics of API Discussions on Stack Overflow", with Treude, Storey, Grammel.
Preparing a revision, "Adoption and Use of Java Generics", an Empirical Software Engineering article, with Bird, Murphy-Hill.
ICPC 2012 Tool Co-Chair. Still have a chance to submit your tool, until March 30th!
ICPC 2012 PC Member. Register and stop by right after ICSE!
USER 2012 PC Member. Going to ICSE? Submit your user study and get expert review!
Spent the summer visiting the University of Waterloo and University of Victoria. Thanks Mike and Peggy!