Kathryn T. Stolee
Me

I am on sabbatical with the Google Code Search team for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.

Email: ktstolee 'at' ncsu 'dot' edu

Bio: I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a member of the ESQuaReD lab under the supervision of Sebastian Elbaum.

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Research Interests

My research makes innovative contributions to our knowledge of program analysis, human aspects of software engineering, and their intersection. As examples, I have explored how refactoring a regular expression can improve comprehension (pdf), how a constraint solver can identify code for a human to reuse (pdf), and how cross-language code-to-code search may help developers learn a new language (pdf). These efforts combine analysis (refactoring, semantic code search, code-to-code search) with human factors (comprehension, reuse, learning). The innovative and influential nature of this research has been recognized by the computer science community at large, as I have been awarded over $1,500,000 in federal grants including an NSF CAREER award. In addition to my scholarly contributions, I am active in the software engineering research community's top conferences as an author, reviewer, and organizer. I am intentional about mentoring the next generation, especially women. Fun fact: three of my papers have all-female authors (1)(2)(3).