Ann Barcomb
Assistant Professor
PhD
Contact information
Location
Office hours
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Research and teaching
Research areas
- Software engineering
- Open source, community management
Activities
My research goals are to improve interpretation and understanding of textual data, and to make software development better for participants. I want to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practitioners and researchers, and to understand and generalize processes and practices.
Biography
Dr. Ann Barcomb is an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. Her previous post was at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Barcomb received her PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2019, with a specialization in software engineering, and a master's in information systems from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. In the course of her industry career, she worked as a software developer for multiple firms and as a community manager for RIPE NCC. From the beginning, she has been active in free/libre/open source software, organizing events, speaking at practitioner conferences, and writing for practitioner outlets.
Publications
For a detailed list of publications, please refer to my personal website or Google Scholar.
Awards
For awards and distinctions, please refer to my personal website.