Pooya Rostami Mazrae

• Jan 2024: My tool paper "gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows" has been accepted by MSR'24 Data and Tools Showcase Track. The repository of the tool is available here.
• Nov 2023: Presenting at Benevol 2023 about my latest studies on changes in GitHub Actions workflows
• Oct 2023: The Book Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics has been published by Springer. I have been part of the chapter The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems alongside of Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, and Alexanre Decan.
• Jun 2023: My EMSE paper "On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: a qualitative analysis" has been accepted by ASE'23 for Journal-First presentation.
• May 2023: My paper on "A preliminary study of GitHub Actions workflow changes" has been accepted by SATToSE 2023.
• Apr 2023: Book chapter "The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems" in book "Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics" is finalized and has been sent to publisher.
• Mar 2023: Presenting the latest publications of the Software Engineering Lab for third year bachelor and first year master students of the University of Mons (UMONS) as part of PhD month program.
• Mar 2023: Invited presenter by GDR GPL for paper: "On the Use of GitHub Actions in Software Development Repositories".
• Jan 2023: My first journal paper "On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: a qualitative analysis" has been accepted by EMSE.
• Oct 2022 - Jan 2023: Research visit to the Computer Science Department at Radboud University.
• Oct 2022: Winning the ICSME 2022 Distinguished Paper Award!
• Jun 2022: Winning the MSR 2022 best Hackathon Paper Award!
• Apr 2022 - Sep 2022: Publicity Chair for the 21st Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2022)

Certificates

• The Power of Statistics course certificate
• Go Beyond the Numbers: Translate Data into Insights course certificate
• Get started with Python course certificate
• Foundations of Data Science course certificate

Awards

• ICSME 2022 Distinguished Paper Award
• MSR 2022 Best Hackathon Paper Award

2021-Currently PhD: Currently, I'm studying my PhD in Software Engineering in University of Mons (UMONS). Under the supervision of Tom Mens, I continue to study collaborative software development platforms specially GitHub and solve the issue related to usage of CI/CD tools in them.

2019-2021 Master Degree: I hold a master degree in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), supervised by Dr. Abbas Heydarnoori. I studied collaborative software development platforms and tried to solve the issues exists within them. Our research with my co-supervisor Maliheh Izadi resulted an ICSME 2021 paper on automated recovery of issue-commit links for further usage in software evolution.

2015-2019 Bachelor Degree: I was a bachelor student of Computer Science at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. As for my bachelor thesis, it was about “Deaf Disease Genes Detection Using Artificial Intelligence Tools”. My research was supervised by Dr. Ali Ahmadi. I have finished my bachelor while being ranked among top-3 and having Ghalamchi top-student scholarship for second half of my bachelor degree.

2011-2015 High School: For my high school, I was accepted into one of the most prestigious school discipline in Iran called National Organization for Development of Exceptionally Talented (NODET/SAMPAD) students through national entrance-exam.