Scholar
Denae Ford
Google Scholar ID: hWdaqqkAAAAJ
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research | Affiliate Assistant Professor at UW
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,605
H-index
27
i10-index
40
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - "For Us By Us": Intentionally Designing Technology for Lived Black Experiences. (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2024)
- - A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention. (ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2023)
- - “It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools. (ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems)
- - Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub. (ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2022)
- - ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors. (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2022)
- - Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers. (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2022)
- - Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity. (IEEE/ACM International Conferences on Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE NIER) 2022)
- - Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard. (IEEE/ACM International Conferences on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS) 2022)
- - Awards:
- - ACM Honorable Mention
- - ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Experience
- - Position: Research Scientist
- - Work Experience: Conducted research on barriers to participation in online programming communities and gave a talk at GitHub
Education
- - Degree: Ph.D.
- - University: North Carolina State University
- - Advisor: Dr. Chris Parnin
- - Time: Not specified
- - Major: Computer Science
- - Other Degrees: BS and MS in Computer Science (North Carolina State University), Minor in Cognitive Science
Background
- - Research Interests: Identity-based signals to support retention in socio-technical ecosystems
- - Field: Computer Science
- - Bio: Focuses on dismantling barriers to participation in online programming communities, particularly through identity deployment, peer parity, and community mentorship.
Miscellany
- - Personal Interests: Not mentioned