Oscar Chaparro
Associate Professor
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Chaparro is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary who leads the Software Evolution and Analysis (SEA) Lab, bringing 11+ years of experience in software engineering research and teaching. His work focuses on automating bug report management, verification-guided refactoring, informed decision-making for code changes, and software supply chain/licensing — blending program analysis, MSR, NLP, CV, and ML/DL. He has a strong empirical bent, mining diverse artifacts (bug reports, source code, online discussions) to produce practical tools that reduce developer effort and improve maintainability. Before academia he built and led R&D teams in industry, giving him a rare combination of production software experience and rigorous PhD-level research. Based in Williamsburg, VA, he supervises cross-disciplinary projects that bridge legal and technical aspects of software evolution, helping teams ship higher-quality, less faulty systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Software Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasPh.D. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science, Software Engineering at Wayne State UniversityM.Eng. Systems Engineering and Computing, Software Engineering, M.Eng. Systems Engineering and Computing, Software Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
python10
android-app10
bug-reporting10
nlp10
chatbot10
text-analysis9
machine-learning9
ranking9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
science8
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
data-science8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ojcchar/text-analyzer
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:49 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 6 years 11 months
ojcchar/ojcchar.github.io
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:184 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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