Dr. Ann Barcomb

Biography

Dr. Ann Barcomb is an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. Her previous post was at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Barcomb received her PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2019, with a specialization in software engineering, and a master's in information systems from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. In the course of her industry career, she worked as a software developer for multiple firms and as a community manager for RIPE NCC. Dr. Barcomb's interests lie in the area of human-computer interaction, primarily in human factors - the people and processes that contribute toward software development, and how software can be used to facilitate work. Specific research topics include the use of open source software contributors and communities, diversity and inclusion, component and tool selection, natural language processing in requirements engineering, enabling smart city governance through residents' data, software engineering research methods, and software engineering education. Dr. Barcomb seeks to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practitioners and researchers, and to align her work with empirical software engineering.