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• (07/2019) Our paper Measuring the Impact of Lexical and Structural Inconsistencies on Developers’ Cognitive Load during Bug Localization has been accepted at the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal!

  Congrats to Devjeet Roy, Yuzhan Ma, and Dr. Olusola Adesope for their great work! And special thanks to my wonderful advisor Dr. Venera Arnaoudova for her guidance, relentless support, and hard work!

• (06/2019) Completed my internship on the Data & AI Team at Microsoft. Thanks to everyone on the team for making the past 6 months incredible!

  .@Microsoft at #ICSE19 ! 😁 pic.twitter.com/ethtF2BXuk

  — Sarah Fakhoury (@fakhourysm) June 4, 2019

• (05/2019) We will be presenting our paper ‘Improving Source Code Readability: Theory and Practice” as part of the ROSE festival at ICSE in Montreal!
• (05/2019) Succesfully Passed my PhD Preliminary Examination. Officially a PhD Candidate!
• (03/2019) Our paper ‘Improving Source Code Readability: Theory and Practice” was accepted in ICPC (co-located with ICSE). See you in Montreal!

  Only two more weeks until we are in Montreal for @ICSEconf & co. So excited to present our work, listen to some cool talks, and explore the city! (https://t.co/HB50CWg5lh)

  — Sarah Fakhoury (@fakhourysm) May 11, 2019

• (01/2019) Joined Microsoft as a Data Scientist Intern
• (11/2018) Visited TU Delft as a guest speaker in Dr.Felienne Hermans Psychology of Programming class

  Great guest lecture today about brain imaging in SE by @fakhourysm in the Psychology of Programming course today, for a way bigger audience than the room could handle! pic.twitter.com/nMVko26LKJ

  — /Fay-lee-nuh/ (@Felienne) November 15, 2018

• (11/2018) Presented at ROSE (co-located with ESEC/FSE)

• (11/2018) Attended ESEC/FSE Doctorial Symposium to present my paper/poster “Moving Towards Objective Measures of Program Comprehension”

  @fakhourysm presents her work on combining 👁 tracking and fNRIS to more accurately measure developers’ mental load. Requires only an 👁 tracker and a headband! #fse18 pic.twitter.com/VoPi5V8pnp

  — davidcshepherd (@davidcshepherd) November 5, 2018

• (09/2018) Attended GHC as a student scholar: