Thomas LaToza -

Registered user since Wed 28 May 2014

Name:Thomas LaToza

Bio:

Thomas LaToza is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. He serves as director of the Developer Experience Design Lab, which studies how humans interact with code and designs new ways of building software. He has conducted dozens of studies of software developers and designed numerous programming tools, including tools for understanding code, reuse, design, debugging, documentation, and onboarding. He has served as co-chair of the Workshop on Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE) as well as the Workshop on the the Evaluation of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award for his work on Debugging Mental Models. He received degrees in Psychology and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Country:United States

Affiliation:George Mason University

Personal website:https://cs.gmu.edu/~tlatoza/

Twitter:https://twitter.com/ThomasLaToza

Research interests:Programming Tools, Developer Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Crowdsourcing

Contributions

SPLASH 2023	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Onward! Essays-track
VL/HCC 2023	General Chair in Organizing Committee
ICSE 2023	Author of Can static analysis tools find more defects? A qualitative study of design rule violations found by code review within the Journal-First Papers-track Author of A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers within the Technical Track-track Program Committee Member in Technical Track within the Technical Track-track
PAINT 2022	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments-track
VL/HCC 2022	Graduate Consortium Co-chair of Panel discussion & Closing Remarks within the Graduate Consortium-track Author of Barriers in Front-End Web Development within the Research Papers-track Graduate Consortium Co-chair of Introductory Remarks and Opening Activity within the Graduate Consortium-track Session Chair of Session on Code Comprehension & Help Seeking (part of Research Papers) Graduate Consortium Co-chair in Organizing Committee Committee Member in Program Committee
ICSE 2022	Session Chair of Papers 7: Evolution and Maintenance (part of Technical Track) Session Chair of BoF 11: Theories of Programming (part of Birds of a Feather) Committee Member in Mentors within the SMeW - Student Mentoring Workshop-track Committee Member in Program Committee within the Technical Track-track
CHASE 2022	Committee Member in Program Committee
‹Programming› 2022	Committee Member in Research Papers within the Research Papers-track
SPLASH 2021	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Onward! Papers-track
VL/HCC 2021	Session Chair of Visual Program and Information Representations (2) (part of Research Papers) Committee Member in Program Committee Author of Edit-Run Behavior in Programming and Debugging within the Research Papers-track Author of HowToo: A Platform for Sharing, Finding, and Using Programming Strategies within the Research Papers-track
ESEC/FSE 2021	Author of Information Needs: Lessons for Programming Tools within the Journal First-track
ICSE 2021	Author of Explicit Programming Strategies within the Journal-First Papers-track Committee Member in Program Committee within the NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results-track
CHASE 2021	PC Member in Program Committee
ICPC 2021	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research-track
ESEC/FSE 2020	Author of Can Microtask Programming Work in Industry? within the Industry Papers-track Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track Author of RulePad: Interactive Authoring of Checkable Design Rules within the Research Papers-track
VL/HCC 2020	Author of Find Unique Usages: Helping Developers Understand Common Usages within the Research Papers-track Author of Using Hypotheses as a Debugging Aid within the Research Papers-track Session Chair of Visualization and Interaction (part of Research Papers) Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
SPLASH 2019	PC Member in Program Committee within the Onward! Papers-track
ICSE 2019	Author of (SEIP Talk) Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering: Models, Motivations, and Challenges within the Software Engineering in Practice-track PC Member in Program Committee within the New Ideas and Emerging Results-track
ESEC/FSE 2018	Author of Microtask Programming within the Journal-First-track Session Chair of Developer Studies (part of Research Papers)
PLATEAU 2017	Committee Member in Program Committee within the PLATEAU 2017-track
Onward! 2016	Committee Member in Program Committee within the Onward! Papers-track
PLATEAU 2016	Session Chair of Session 1 (part of PLATEAU) Committee Member in Organizing Committee within the PLATEAU-track
SPLASH 2015	Video Previews Czar in Organizing Committee Author of Evaluating Programming Languages and Tools in Studies with Human Participants within the Tutorials-track
PLATEAU 2015	Committee Member in Organizing Committee Session Chair of Tools (part of PLATEAU) Committee Member in Organizing Committee within the PLATEAU-track Session Chair of Group Discussion (part of PLATEAU)
SPLASH 2014	Video Czar in Organizing Committee
PLATEAU	Committee Member in Organizing Committee within the PLATEAU-track Session Chair of Session 4 (part of PLATEAU) Session Chair of Invited Speaker: Josh Bloch (part of PLATEAU)
PLATEAU 2012	Committee Member in Program Committee within the PLATEAU 2012-track