Faculty

Banani Roy

Associate Professor

Dr. Banani Roy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan and the Director of iSE Lab (I see lab). Her research mission is to develop tools and techniques for engineering usable software systems and to increase software developers productivity. Her details could be found at her homepage.

Current Graduate Students

I am fortunate to have the following outstanding graduate students. A few of them are co-supervised with Dr. Kevin Schneider and Dr. Chanchal Roy.

Sristy S. Nath

Postdoctoral Fellow

Thesis/Project Title: Humanizing the Release Notes Generation Process. She received the Geddes Award for her outstanding research contribution.

Khairul Alam

PHD STUDENT

Khairul Alam is a PhD student who joined the lab after completing his Master’s from the same department. His research interest is in large-scale data analysis with scientific workflows. He also works with crowdsource knowledge base (e.g., Workflow Repositories, StackOverflow) and software repositories (e.g., GitHub)to retrieve valuable insights. He develops tools and techniques to assist software developers and domain scientists.

Saumendu Roy (Saumo)

PHD STUDENT

Saumo is a third-year Ph.D. student who joined the lab after completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST), Bangladesh. He works with Explainable Machine Learning (XAI), a cutting-edge AI and ML research topic. It brings together computer science, data science, psychology, ethics, and more professionals to demystify AI and ensure these powerful technologies function as reliable decision-support tools. His research interests are mostly explainability, software engineering, maintenance, and machine learning.

Shamse T. Cynthia

PHD STUDENT

Shamse Tasnim Cynthia is a PhD student in the iSE Lab. She finished her Master’s from the same lab. Her research focuses on modelling adaptive user interfaces in Scientific Workflow Management Systems and investigating how preferences affect modelling in different environments, including graphical, textual, and visually guided scripting editors. She received the Geddes Award and 75th Anniversary Scholarship for her outstanding performance.

Palash Ranjan Roy

PHD STUDENT

Palash is a passionate Masters’s student in computer science, deeply engrossed in research focused on the intersection of Software Clones and Large Language Models. In the realm of Software Clones, he tirelessly explores the intricacies of code duplication, striving to enhance code quality, reduce maintenance challenges, and uncover opportunities for innovation in software development. Simultaneously, he delves into the world of Large Language Models, harnessing their immense potential to revolutionize natural language understanding, text generation and even automate complex tasks. This dual research focus not only exemplifies his commitment to advancing both software engineering and artificial intelligence but also fuels his drive to contribute meaningfully to the dynamic realms of computer science and robotics, where these two domains often intersect in transformative ways.

Parnian Eslamloo

PHD STUDENT

Parnian completed her Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology in Iran and has since pursued her master’s studies here at the U of S. She has a profound interest in research areas related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and human-centric software. Her overarching goal is to harness NLP and related techniques to facilitate and enhance the interaction between humans and computers, making technology more accessible and user-friendly.

Kawser Wazed Nafi

PhD Candidate

Thesis/Project Title: Cross language program similarity analysis for recommending tools in building scientific workflows (co-supervised).

Sahand Saed

MSc Student

M.Sc. Thesis: Overview on the reinforcement learning applications in federated learning

Past Mentored Students

(Unofficially co-supervised as Lead Research Associate)

Golam Mostaeen

MSc. Student

Thesis/Project Title: Towards Collaborative Scientific Workflow Management System. Defended his thesis in December 2018.

Rayhan Ferdous

MSc Student

Thesis/Project Title: Workflow Provenance: from Modeling to Reporting. Defended his thesis in December 2018.

Amit Kumar Mondal

MSc Student

Towards a Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Plant Genotyping and Phenotyping Analysis Frameworks

Graduated Students

I supervised several outstanding graduate students, some of whom received co-supervision from Dr. Kevin Schneider and Dr. Chanchal Roy. These individuals completed their studies successfully under my mentorship.

Mostafa AbediniAla

MSC CANDIDATE

Mostafa did his Msc on developing a framework for provenance analysis in real-time Collaborative Scientific Workflow Management System.

Naz Zarreen Oishie

Avijit Bhattacharjee

Thesis/Project Title: Interactive and Visual Software Analytics for Software Renovation.

Khairul Alam

PHD STUDENT

Shamse T. Cynthia

PHD STUDENT

Amit Kumar Mondal

MSc Student

Towards a Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Plant Genotyping and Phenotyping Analysis Frameworks

Rayhan Ferdous

MSc Student

Thesis/Project Title: Workflow Provenance: from Modeling to Reporting. Defended his thesis in December 2018.

Debasish Chakroborti (Joy)

MSc (co-supervised)

Thesis/Project Title: Optimized Storing of Workflow Outputs for better Scientific Workflow. Joy defended his thesis in August 2019.

Justin Schneider

MSC STUDENT

Md Mustakim Billah

MSC STUDENT

Muhammad Mainul Hossain

PhD Graduate (co-supervised)

Md. Rayhan Islam

MSc. Student

Thesis Title: Federated Learning in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Study on Commit Prediction and Name-based Bug Detection in Jan2024