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• (11/2019) I will be joining Microsoft Research as a Research Intern on the RiSE team. Can’t wait 😊! See you in Redmond Summer 2020!

• (10/2019) Incredibly grateful to be a recipient of the Mahmoud M. Dillsi Family Graduate Fellowship!

• (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!

• (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: