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Department of Informatics s.e.a.l

Pooja Rani, Dr.

 

 
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   Senior Researcher

     Address:
     University of Zurich
      Department of Informatics
      Binzmühlestrasse 14
      CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
   Office 2.D.03
   E-Mail rani@ifi.uzh.ch, pooja.rani@uni-mannheim.de
ORCID 0000-0001-5127-4042
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Research Interests

My main research interest lies in the general area of Empirical Software Engineering (SE), Green Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and machine learning applied to SE. My primary research focuses on understanding developer coding practices and using that knowledge to build tools and techniques to assist developers in program comprehension, evolution, and maintenance activities.

Short Biography

I am a senior postdoctoral researcher in the  Software Evaluation and Architecture Lab and a professor at the University of Mannheim, chairing the group on Sustainable Software Engineering. Before joining SEAL, I was a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Zurich Empirical Software Engineering Team and postdoctoral researcher in the Software Engineering Group. I received my Ph.D. (with honors) in 2022 on the topic of "Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages" in the Software Composition Group at University of Bern under the supervision of Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz and co-supervision of Dr. Sebastiano Panichella.

I have worked in the industry in various software engineering profiles. I have worked as a software engineer in Test in Samsung, as a researcher in VMware, and as a developer in People Interactive Ltd. I can say that I have witnessed a glimpse of the real software engineering process in various companies and in various profiles.

You can find more information about recent publications, teaching activtities, talks, and theses on my page.

 

Teaching

  • Advanced Software Engineering (2025, 2026)
  • Seminar: Advanced Software Engineering (BSc)(2025,2026: Course administration and lectures)
  • Seminar: Advanced Software Engineering (MSc)(2025,2026: Course administration and lectures)

Projects (MSc/BSc Thesis and Master Project)

Please find the available projects listed below. If none of the projects interests you, but the topics in general interest you, feel free to contact me.