Ann Barcomb

Dr. Ann Barcomb

Pronouns: she/they

Positions

Assistant Professor

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering

Contact information

Location

Office: ICT352A

Please use email to contact me. I do not listen to voicemail frequently.

I'm looking for...

Funding

I am always interested in connecting with industry for potential collaboration.

 

Learning opportunities

If I am looking for graduate students or undergraduate summer students, the opportunities will be posted on my website.

Research partners

I am generally interested in collaborations, especially interdisciplinary ones.

Background

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. Her research is characterized by a desire to understand and generalize processes and practices within free/libre/open source software communities, to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practitioners.

Research

Areas of Research

Software engineering
Open source
community management
Activities

My research falls in the area of human-computer interaction, with two main themes: improving work through software and data, and human factors in software engineering. In general I seek to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practitioners and researchers.

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENSF 380 Object-Oriented Principles for Software Development Winter
ENSF 409 Principles of Software Development Winter
ENSF 619 Software Development Using Open Source Fall