Students’s Recruitment

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PhD/MPhil Recruitment:

Dr Vidoni is not recruiting any new students for 2023.

Undergraduates Recruitment:

Dr Vidoni is not recruiting any new students for 2023.

Current Students

Current students working with me.


Undergraduate Research Students

  • Ashley Tang, Topic: “A large-scale mixed-methods study of reproducibility in Q&A forums across programming languages”. Type: Honours, 2023.
  • Selene Kim, Topic: “Code Summarisation for Scientific Software in .NET”. Type: Research Project, 2023.
  • Xiyang Huang, Topic: “Cross-Domain, Multi-Language Automated Detection of Code and Algorithm Debt”. Type: Research Project, 2023. Co-Advisor: Iko-ojo Simon.


Higher Degree by Research Students

  • Iko-ojo Simon. Topic: Algorithm Debt (Technical Debt in Scientific Software). Co-Advisor: Dr Fatemeh Fard from University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Shawn Zhao. Topic: “Documentation in R Programming”. Type: MPhil, 2023. Student at the University of British Columbia, under the main supervision of Dr Fatemeh H. Fard. Dr Vidoni is co-supervisor.

Former Students

Former completions (all levels).

Master Projects (ANU):

  • Shiqiao Zhou. Topic: “Analysis of Frustration Disclosures in Java, Python and C”. Type: Master by Coursework. Graduated: HD (84).
  • Richeng Zhang. Topic:: “Uncovering Algorithm Smells on Developers’ Discussions”. Type: Master’s Research Project, 2023. Co-supervised with Iko-ojo Simon (PhD Student).


Honours & Research Projects:

ANU

  • Vatsal Venkatkrishna & Durga Shree Nagabusham. Topic: “Exploring A Multi-step Approach for Code Summarisation”. Type: Research Interns, working as part of ANU’s Future Research Talent, Australia-India, 2023.
  • Kevin Halim. Topic: “Gray Literature review on Software Engineering in Medium”. Type: Research Projects, 2022-2023. Graduated: HD (85).
  • Raymond Horley. Topic: “NLP-driven Analysis of Refactoring and Code Smells in Python”. Type: Research Projects, 2022-2023. Graduated: HD (93).
  • Manas Prasad. Topic: “Security issues admitted in commit messages”. Type: Honours, 2022. Co-Advisor: Dr Díaz-Ferreyra from TUHH, Germany. Awarded the ANU Co-Lab Grant. Graduated: HD: 86 (H1 Honours)
  • Dominic Yang. Topic: “GitHub issues in the R/Python community”. Type: Research Project, 2022. Graduated: Graduated D: (78).
  • David Filing. Topic: “Advanced Topic-Modelling in BioConductor forums”. Type: Research Project, 2022. Graduated: D.
  • Richeng Zhang. Topic: “Analysing data science conversations in Twitter”. Type: Individual research project, S1 2022. Graduated: D (75).


RMIT University

  • Pranjay Kumar and Davin Ie, Bachelor of Computer Science (Capstone). 2021. Topic: Mining CRAN Discussions from Stack Overflow, and Analysing SATD in R Packages to Uncover CRAN Smells. Graduated: HD. Publications: at ICPC 2022 (Rank A)
  • Aparupa Mitra, Ken Russel Go, Sruthi Soundarapandian (Capstone). 2021. Topic: Mining Security Breaches in PyPi Projects. Graduated: HD.
  • Sarah Sukamto, Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons). 2020. Topic: Quality Attributes in Intelligent Agent Systems. Graduated: 8 / 10.
  • Sefira Karina, Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons). 2020. Topic: Maintenance goals performance in Intelligent Agent Systems. Graduated: 9 / 10.