BrittanyĀ Johnson-matthews
Principal Researcher at George Mason University
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrittany Johnson-matthews is a Principal Researcher and Assistant Professor of Computer Science with 11+ years of experience bridging human factors, AI, and software testing. She earned her Ph.D. from NC State and advanced bias-detection and repair methods during a postdoc at UMass Amherst with the LASER lab. Her work focuses on creating a generalized testing discipline to detect and remedy discriminatory or otherwise buggy software, combining empirical developer-studies with practical tooling. She has industry research experience at Microsoft and hands-on software development roots from internships and undergraduate research at CIRDLES. Based in Virginia, she blends academic rigor with applied research that aims to make software more equitable and trustworthy. Colleagues describe her as someone who pairs deep technical acumen with a persistent focus on the human impact of software systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science/Software Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science/Software Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at College of Charleston
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brittjay0104/APATIANproto
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:113 pushes, 5 comments, 25 issues in 2 years 1 month
LASER-UMASS/CausalTesting_ICSE20
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
This repository contains the components of the artifact for the ICSE 2020 technical research paper "Causal Testing: Understanding Defects' Root Causes".
Contributions:50 commits, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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