Email: tapajit dey lero ie
0000-0002-1379-8539
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lero, the Science Foundation
Ireland Research Centre for Software at the University of Limerick (UL),
working with Prof. Brian Fitzgerald on the
TREES project working on making the lives of Open Source Newcomers & projects a bit easier,
in a collaboration project with Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan and his team at Huawei@Canada and
also on facilitating InnerSource implementation at Huawei@China.
I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
with Dr. Audris Mockus, working on Open Source Software Supply Chain, bot detection, and
modeling various user-affected software properties from the prespective of the Information System Success Model.
I received my Bachelors and Masters Degree (under the Dual-Degree program) from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication
Engineering and worked in IBM for 3 years before joining my Ph.D.
In terms of Research, my interests comprise the topics of Open Source and InnerSource software development,
Empirical Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories, and data analytics.
- I have been awarded the "Distinguished Reviewer Award" for MSR 2022 Technical Track for the second consecutive year (after MSR'21).
- I'm honored to serve as the Publicity & Social Media Co-Chair, Shadow-PC Mentor, and PC member for the MSR'22 conference.
- I'm nonored to serve as a PC member in ICSE'23 Technical Track.
- I'm honored to serve as the Proceedings Chair in PROMISE'22.
- I'm have been promoted to a Postdoctoral Fellow in Lero at the University of Limerick.
- TREES Project: Enabling InnerSource software development/Corporate Software Engineering Capability at Huawei as part of the TREES project.
- Results of the State of the InnerSource survey 2020 [ Video of the Talk presented at the 2020 APAC InnerSource Commons summit]
- A tool for estimating the "Fitness" of a project for InnerSource style development. (Can be translated to English and Chinese on the fly)
- Our proposed model for assessing InnerSource-readiness of a candidate project has been accepted as a Pattern in InnerSource Commons.
- Open Source Newcomers: Facilitating the success of new developers and projects joining the Open Source ecosystem.
- Research on code-commit bot detection.
- Software Supply Chain: Exploring the Effects of Interdependencies in a Software Ecosystem on Popularity.
- Predicting Pull Request Quality.
- Effects of Software Usage on Perceived Quality of a Software.
- I am a staunch supporter of the Open Science Movement, and support making knowledge accessible to everyone. To that end, I am really passionate about the success of the Open Source movement.
- I also feel scholars around the world should do everying they can to devise ways of mitigating the effects of climate change as much as possible. COVID-19 has shown everyone what the collective effort of scientists around the world can achieve and I'm hopeful we can do something about climate change as well. To that end, I'm exploring how I myself can contribute to Green technologies.
- I'm a big fan of Vsauce, Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, SciShow, and similar informative YouTube channels.
- In terms of coding, I prefer using R (for statistical analysis), shell script (for running small errands and big jobs), and Python (everything else).
- Fall 2020 - Present — Lecturer: CS4911 - Introduction to Information Technology @ UL Modified the course and assessment to conform with COVID-19 related restrictions & virtual teaching requirements, included new topics like Cyber Security, Edge & Quantum Computing, and moderninzed the rest of the lecture topics to include latest developments.
- Spring 2017 — Teaching Assistant: Programming Languages and Systems @ UTK
- Fall 2016 — Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Digital Archeology @ UTK
- Spring 2016 — Teaching Assistant: Operating Systems @ UTK
- Fall 2015 — Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Digital Archeology @ UTK
- [2023] - Will serve as a Program Committee member (Technical Track) in the ICSE'23 conference.
- [2022] - Will serve as the Proceedings Chair in the PROMISE'22 conference.
- [2022] - Served as Publicity & Social Media Co-Chair, Committee Member in Shadow PC Advisors within the Shadow PC-track, and Program Committee member (Technical Track) in the MSR 2022 conference.
- [2022] - Received the "Distinguished Reviewer Award" for MSR 2022 conference (Technical Track).
- [2021] - Received the "Distinguished Reviewer Award" for MSR 2021 conference (Technical Track).
- [2021] - Served as a Program Committee member (Technical Track) in the MSR'21 conference.
- [2021] - Served as a Program Committee member in the OSS'21 conference.
- [2019] - Our paper "Patterns of Effort Contribution and Demand and User Classification based on Participation Patterns in NPM Ecosystem" received the Best Paper Award at the PROMISE - 2019 conference.
- [2017] - Received the Best Graduate Research Assistant award and scholarshop from the University of Tennessee EECS department.