Zohreh Sharafi

I will be an assistant professor in the Département de Génie Informatique et Génie Logiciel at Polytechnique Montréal from February 2022.

My research focuses on the problem-solving strategies used by developers in software development activities and how human factors, such as gender, impact these strategies. I'm interested in studying and improving current software development tools and processes to be more inclusive and cater to a wide range of developers.

I was a Senior Research Fellow, working with Dr. Westley Weimer at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am honored to be one of the recipients of the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Not long ago, I studied the impact of different types of visualizations on program comprehension, requirement traceability, model-driven development in software engineering, and the global image registration methods in computer vision.

As a software engineer and a member of a global team at Morgan Stanley, I contributed to the development of the firm's lead electronic-trading application for listed securities. I was the principal architect of an application called SURF, a stock market data simulator to improve the debugging process and performance testing.

I got my Ph.D. at Université de Montréal under the supervision of Dr. Giuliano Antoniol and Dr. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. My dissertation was about various types of visualizations and their impacts on the program comprehension process and how gender impact this process. A copy of my thesis can be found Here

Check out my work at Research Gate.

I'm a born and raised in Tehran and love living in transient cosmopolitan cities. I've lived in New York, Ann Arbor, and now Montréal.