PhD, Computer Science and Engineering
• Area of Study: Software Engineering
Visiting Researcher/Consulting Researcher
Software Engineering Research Assistant
Software Engineering Research Internship
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ICSE 2021
Best Paper Award SIGCSE Experience Reports and Tools 2021
Best Paper Award HAI 2020
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ICSE 2014
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards 2014 $100
Computer Science and Engineering Teaching Assistant Award 2013 $100
Moster, M., Kokinda, E., Boyer, D. M., Rodeghero, P. “Experiences with Summer Camp Communication via Discord”, to appear in Proc. of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering Education and Training Track (ICSE SEET ‘24), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-20, 2024.
Moster, M., Boyer, D. M., Rodeghero, P., "WIP: Exploring how an Unofficial Discord Server Supports Undergraduate Learning in Computer Science", presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 23-26, 2024.
Kokinda, E., Moster, M., Rodeghero, P., Boyer, D. M. (2024, May), “Informal Learning Opportunities - Neurodiversity, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation for Programming Inter- est”, to be presented at International Conference on Computer Supported Education 2024 (CSEDU 24), Angers, France.
Kokinda, E., Rodeghero, P., Boyer, D. M. (2024, June), “WIP: Streamer and Viewer Interactions in Software and Game Development Live Streams“, to be presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
Kokinda, E., Moster, M., Rodeghero, P., Boyer, D. M. (2024, June), “Compiling Re- silience: A Study on First-Generation Women Pursuing Computing Degrees”, to be presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
Kokinda, E., Rodeghero, P. “Streaming Software Development: Accountability, Commu- nity, and Learning”, The Journal of Systems and Software (2023).
Kokinda, E., Moster, M., Dominic, J., Rodeghero, P. “Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies”, Proc. of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ICSE NIER ‘23), Melbourne, Australia, 17-19 May 2023.
*Moster, M., *Kokinda, E., Rodeghero, P., McNeese, N. “Both Sides of the Story: Chang- ing the “pre-existing culture of dread” surrounding student teamwork in breakout rooms”, Proc. of the 2023 ACM on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Coop- erative Work (CSCW ‘23), Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 13-18, 2023.
Moster, M., , Kokinda, E., Re, M., Dominic, J., Lehmann, J., Begel, A., Rodeghero, P. “ ‘Can You Help Me?’ An Experience Report of Teamwork in a Game Coding Camp for Autistic High School Students”, in Proc. of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering Education and Training Track (ICSE SEET ‘22), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 21-29, 2022.
Moster, M., Chandra, A., Chu, C., Liu, W., Rodeghero, P. "In the Zone: An Analysis of the Music Practices of Remote Software Developers", in Proc. of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM ’22), Helsinki, Finland, September 19-23, 2022.
Moster, M. "Investigating Communication Tools in SE Capstone Courses", in Proc. of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.2 (ICER ’22), Lugano and Virtual Event, Switzerland, August 7–11, 2022.
Moster, M., Begel, A., Boyer, D. M., Rodeghero, P. "A Longitudinal Study Exploring Autistic High Schoolers’ Interests in CS", 4th Annual Autism at Work Research Work- shop (AAWRW ’22), Virtual, May 16-18, 2022.
Rodeghero, P., Zimmermann, T., Houck, B., Ford, D. "Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic" in Proc. of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conferences on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP’21), Madrid, Spain, May 23-29, 2021
Moster, M., Ford, D., Rodeghero, P. "’Is My Mic On?’ Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication", in Proc. of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering - Joint Software Engi- neering Education and Training Track (ICSE JSEET’21), Madrid, Spain, May 23-29, 2021.
Miller, C., Rodeghero, P., Storey, M., Ford, D., Zimmermann, T. “How Was Your Week- end?” Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19", in Proc. of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’21), Madrid (virtual), Spain, May 25-28, 2021.
Begel, A., Dominic, J., Phillis, C., Beeson, T., Rodeghero, P. “How a Remote Video Game Coding Camp Improved Autistic College Students’ Self-Efficacy in Communi- cation”, in Proc. of the 51st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21), Toronto, Canada, March 13-20, 2021. Best Paper Award
Dominic, J., Tubre, B., Kunkel, D., Rodeghero, P. "The human experience of compre- hending source code in virtual reality", Empirical Software Engineering, Volume 27, article number 173, 2022.
Huff Jr, E. W., Boateng, K., Moster, M., Rodeghero, P., Brinkley, J. “Exploring the Per- spectives of Teachers of the Visually Impaired Regarding Accessible K12 Computing Education”, in Proc. of the 51st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21), Toronto, Canada, March 13-20, 2021.
Tubre, B., Rodeghero, P. "Exploring the Challenges of Cloud Migrations During a Global Pandemic", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’20 Late Breaking Ideas), Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2020.
Dominic, J., Tubre, B., Ritter, C., Houser, J., Smith, C., Rodeghero, P. "Remote Pair Programming in Virtual Reality", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’20), Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2020.
Anderson, J., Steinmacher, I., Rodeghero, P. "Assessing the Characteristics of FOSS Con- tributions in Network Automation Projects", in Proc. of the IEEE International Confer- ence on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’20), Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2020.
Flathmann, C., Schelble, B., Tubre, B., McNeese, N., Rodeghero, P. "Invoking Princi- ples of Groupware to Develop and Evaluate Present and Future Human-Agent Teams", in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20), Sydney (online), Australia, Nov. 10-13, 2020. Best Paper Award
Huff Jr, E. W., Boateng, K., Moster, M., Rodeghero, P., Brinkley, J. "Examining the Work Experience of Programmers with Visual Impairments", in Proc. of the 36th In- ternational Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME NIER’20), Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2020.
Rodeghero, P., Hernandez, T. "Empowering and Supporting Remote Software Develop- ment Team Members through a Culture of Allyship", in Proc. of the New Future of Work Symposium (New Future of Work), Microsoft Research, Virtual, August 3-5, 2020.
Dominic, J., Tubre, B., Houser, J., Ritter, C., Kunkel, D., Rodeghero, P. "Program Com- prehension in Virtual Reality", in Proc. of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC’20 ERA), Seoul, Korea, May 23-24, 2020.
Dominic, J., Ritter, C., Rodeghero, P. "Onboarding Bot for Newcomers to Software En- gineering", in Proc. of the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP’20), Seoul, Korea, May 23-24, 2020.
Dominic, J., Ritter, C., Rodeghero, P. "Onboarding Bot for Newcomers to Software En- gineering", in Proc. of the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP’20), Seoul, Korea, May 23-24, 2020.
Shaydulin, R., Thomas, C., Rodeghero, P. "Making Quantum Computing Open: Lessons from Open-Source Projects", in Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE’20), Seoul, Korea, May 24-26, 2020.
Rodeghero, P. "An Exploratory Field Study of Programmer Assistance-Seeking during Software Development", in Proc. of the 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE’20), Seoul, Korea, May 24, 2020.
Dominic, J., Houser, J., Steinmacher, I., Ritter, C., Rodeghero, P. "Conversational Bot for Newcomers Onboarding to Open Source Projects", in Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE’20), Seoul, Korea, May 24, 2020.
Canonico, L., Vakeel, V., Dominic, J., Rodeghero, P., McNeese, N. "Human-AI Partner- ships for Chaos Engineering ", in Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’20), Seoul, Korea, May 23, 2020.
Milewicz, P., Pinto, P., Rodeghero, P. " Characterizing the Roles of Contributors in Open- source Scientific Software Projects", in Proc. of the 52th Mining Software Repositories (MSR’19), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 26-27, 2019.
Milewicz, P., Rodeghero, P., "Position Paper: Towards Usability as a First-Class Qual- ity of Scientific Software", in Proc. of the 2019 International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science (SE4SCIENCE’19), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 28, 2019.
Wood, A., Rodeghero, P., Armaly, A., McMillan, C., "Detecting Speech Act Types in Developer Question/Answer Conversations During Bug Repair", in Proc. of the 26th ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’18), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, Nov. 4-9, 2018.
Armaly, A., Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., “AudioHighlight: Code Skimming for Blind Programmers”, in Proc. of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Software Main- tenance and Evolution (ICSME’18), Madrid, Spain, Sept. 23-29, 2018.
Rodeghero, P., Jiang, S., Armaly, A., McMillan, C., “Detecting User Story Information in Developer-Client Conversations to Generate Extractive Summaries”, in Proc. of the 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’17), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017 (17% acceptance rate).
Armaly, A., Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., “A Comparison of Program Comprehension Strategies by Blind and Sighted Programmers”, in Transactions on Software Engineer- ing (TSE), accepted July 5, 2017. Journal First.
Rodeghero, P., “Behavior-Informed Algorithms for Automatic Documentation Genera- tion”, in the Proc. of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME).
Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., Shirley, A. “API Usage in Descriptions of Source Code Functionality”, The International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution. Co-located with ICSE’17.
Rodeghero, P.Huo, D., Ding, T., McMillan, C., Gethers, M., “An Empirical Study on How Expert Knowledge Affects Bug Reports”, Journal of Software: Evolution and Pro- cess. Special issue containing the best papers from the 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. Extensive revision and expansion of the con- ference paper.
Rodeghero, P., “Discovering Important Source Code Terms.” The Proceedings 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’16). ACM Stu- dent Research Competition, Austin, Texas, USA.
Rodeghero, P.McMillan, C., “An Empirical Study on the Patterns of Eye Movement dur- ing Summarization Tasks”, in Proc. of the 9th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’15), Beijing, China, Oct. 22-23, 2015, 10 pages.
Rodeghero, P., Liu, C., McBurney, P. W., McMillan, C., “An Eye-Tracking Study of Java Programmers and Application to Source Code Summarization”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., McBurney, P. W., Bosch, N., D’Mello, S., “Improving Au- tomated Source Code Summarization via an Eye-Tracking Study of Programmers”, in Proc. of 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’14), Hyderabad, India, May 31-June 7 2014, 12 pages. (20% acceptance rate) ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
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