Bonita Sharif
Associate Professor
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolBonita Sharif is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with over a decade of academic experience studying the human side of software development. She leads the Software Engineering Research and Empirical Studies Lab, applying eye tracking and biometric methods to empirical software engineering, HCI, emotional awareness, traceability, and visualization to improve maintenance of large systems. An NSF CAREER and CRI awardee, she has chaired major conferences (ETRA, VISSOFT) and serves on program committees for ICSE, ASE, ICSME, ICPC, and SANER, shaping research agendas in both software engineering and eye-tracking. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, she blends rigorous experimental methods with practical tooling and visualization insights—often revealing developer behaviors not apparent from code alone.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Cyprus CollegePh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Kent State University
Github Skills (26)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
visual-studio10
vscode10
eye-tracking9
eclipse-plugin8
plugin8
implicit6
eclipse5
textual5
artifacts5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shbonita/shbonita.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
VISSOFT-Document/VISSOFT-Document.github.io
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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