{"id":503,"date":"2015-04-13T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-04-14T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:54:24","slug":"david-piorkowski-receives-ibm-fellowship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2015\/04\/13\/david-piorkowski-receives-ibm-fellowship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"David Piorkowski receives IBM Fellowship Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graduate student David Piorkowski received an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award\u00a0in March 2015. The fellowship is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.<\/p>\n

Piorkowski\u2019s research is in the area of software engineering, and aims to create better tools to help software developers debug code.<\/p>\n

Margaret Burnett, professor of computer science, and Piorkowski’s Ph.D.\u00a0advisor said, “David is a rising star. His research stands to fundamentally impact software engineering, and this award recognizes its importance. The computer science research community\u2019s recognition of its importance also shows in David\u2019s academic successes along the way.<\/p>\n

“In the five years past his B.S., David won four research internships, and published six ACM\/IEEE papers with more in the pipeline. His papers are significant, building a foundation for practical support of software developers’ information seeking. He also “gives back,” mentoring younger graduate students, undergraduates, and even highschoolers.\u00a0 I am extremely proud of his achievements.”<\/p>\n

Description of his Ph.D. dissertation from his award nomination:<\/p>\n

\u201cInformation foraging theory (IFT) has explained and predicted how people seek information, but IFT does not explicitly account for how people forage when simultaneously “fixing” information in the environment. This gap may limit IFT’s applicability to programming.<\/p>\n

Informed by prior research in IFT and Minimalist Learning Theory, my research investigates how programmers forage differently when debugging (fixing) versus understanding (learning) code \u2014 via empirical studies and constructing computational models \u2014 and how software tools can capitalize upon these differences. The results will contribute new, evidence-based theoretical foundations for understanding software developers’ information seeking behaviors, and how tools can support them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduate student David Piorkowski received an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award\u00a0in March 2015. The fellowship is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. Piorkowski\u2019s research is in the area… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027,216220],"tags":[1231,216255,155,101813,2452],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-student-stories","tag-computer-science","tag-ibm-fellowship-award","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-software-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}