Khadijah AL SAFWANComputer Science PhD student khsafvtedu | khadijahalsafwangmailcom linkedincominkhsafwan wwwkhsafwancom +1 540 449 9839 | +966 566 294 144 Blacksburg Virginia United States of America | Dhahran Eastern Province Saudi Arabia

I am a PhD student doing research in the area of Software Engineering (SE) including software changes comprehensionand software visualization I am interested in an internship that will help me progress in my research My research goal isto help software developers understand the evolution of software and improve their productivity

EDUCATION 2018 - now PhD in Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA GPA 3934

2016 - 2018 MS in Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA GPA 3904

2011 - 2015 BS in Computer Science University Of Dammam Dammam KSA GPA 4715

WORK EXPERIENCE 2019 - now Teaching assistant

Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USACS 5704 Software Engineering Virginia Tech Online Master of Information Technology (VT-MIT) Program

2016 - now Research assistant Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USASoftware Engineering Software Evolution Code-Changes Understanding Revision Control Systems Commits Rationale

2014 - 2015 Researcher University Of Dammam Dammam KSASenior Project Energy Consumption Wireless Sensor Network Web-based System

Summer 2014 COOP Trainee Wipro Arabia LTD Al-Khobar KSABusiness Solutions Department Aramco Development Center IT Courses ABAP Programming SAP NetWeaver

Summer 2013 Summer Trainee Saudi Aramco Dhahran KSASupport Business Applications Department (SBAD) Corporate Applications Division (CAD)

PUBLICATIONS

KhadijahAl SafwanandFranciscoServant 2019 Decomposing theRationaleofCodeCommits TheSoftwareDevelopersrsquo Perspec-tive In Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposiumon the Foundationsof Software Engineering (ESECFSE 2019) ACM Tallinn Estonia August 2019 Conference Proceeding 24 acceptance rate

Khadijah Al Safwan (May 2018) Unfolding the Rationale for Code Commits Blacksburg Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Instituteand State University Masters Thesis

Khadijah AlSafwan Fatimah AlShaer Lolah Hakami Khawlah Aseeri Masoumah AlJishi and Dilek Dustegor (2016) Design andImplementation of a Residential Energy Monitoring System Prototype Tailored to Meet Local Needs In International Journal ofComputing and Digital Systems (IJCDS) 5 p 4 Journal Article

KhadijahAlSafwan FatimahAlShaer LolahHakami Khawlah Aseeri MasoumahAlJishi andDilekDustegor (Oct 2015) iTrack AResidential Energy Monitoring System Tailored to Meet Local Needs In 2015 Fifth International Conference on e-Learning (econf)pp 1-6 Conference Proceeding

AWARDS 2016 - 2018 Graduate Studies Scholarship Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) Washington DC USA

2012 - 2015 Annual Excellence Award University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

2012 Coding Marathon Winning Award University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

2012 Best Management Committee Award University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

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ACTIVITIES Sep 2019 Attending the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference

Tapia San Diego CA USA

Aug 2019 Presented in 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on theFoundations of Software Engineering (ESECFSE) ESECFSE Tallinn Estonia

2018 - now Volunteering for VT PEERS Program - Partnering with Educators and Engineers in Rural Schools Virginia Tech Virginia USA

Feb 2017 Attended the Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (CAPWIC) Georgetown University Washington DC USA

Mar 2015 Participated in a Career Forum Dhahran International Exhibitions Dammam KSA

Feb 201415 Attended Saudi Aramco Information Technology Seminar University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

Apr 2014 Volunteered for the Electronic Resources of Libraries Workshop University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

Decr 2013 Volunteered for the E-Government Workshop University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

Feb 2013 Volunteered for the University Introductory Session University Of Dammam Dammam KSA

COMPUTER SKILLSOperating Systems Mac OS Ubuntu Linux Windows

Programming Languages ABAP C C C++ CSS HTML5 Java JavaScript JQuery Lisp NodeJs PHPProlog Python SQL

Computer Apps and Tools IDE JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ PyCharm WebStorm) MatLab NetBeans SAP IDEVisual Studio

Modeling amp Design Adobe Dreamweaver Enterprise ArchitectOffice Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint Visio) LaTeX Atom Sublime TextVisualization D3 Processing TableauPrototyping Axure BalsamiqSimulation Circuit Maker National Instruments Packet TracerStatistics amp Analysis Mathematica R SPSSDatabases MongoDB MySQL Solr Microsoft SQL Server MySQL WorkbenchWeb Hosting Apache CPanel Cyberduck FileZilla Passenger Putty XAMPPNginx

SOFT SKILLSVerbal CommunicationLeadership Critical ThinkingOrganization Time ManagementTechnical Writing

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

Arabic

English

+ HOBBIES

Photography

Travelling

REFERENCES

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