Dr. Christopher J Parnin

Associate Professor

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. My research interests are in software engineering and human interactions, including programmer cognition, automated infrastructure, and software ecosystems. My students work in the alt-code lab, known for its industrial-strength awesomeness. I teach the software engineering and devops courses.

Our research program in Software Engineering is ranked #3 in the world. If you're interested in these research areas, look at what it takes to join the lab, and apply to the NCSU PhD in Software Engineering!

Students

Mahnaz Behroozi
Mahnaz Behroozi
Eric Horton
Eric Horton
Samim Mirhosseini
Samim Mirhosseini
Nischal Shrestha
Nischal Shrestha

Alumni

Denae Ford
Denae Ford Robinson
Microsoft Research
Chris Brown
Chris Brown
Virginia Tech
Titus Barik
Titus Barik
Apple
Akond Rahman
Akond Rahman
Tennessee Tech
Colton Bolta
Colton Bolta
Marshall Scholar

Research

Alternatively, see my publications on: Google Scholar

Theses

  • Investigation of the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Programming Tasks Saurabh Sarkar. Master Thesis, 2015.
  • HappyFace: Identifying and Predicting Frustrating Learning Obstacles at Scale Ian Drosos. Master Thesis, 2017.

    • Advice

    
Alan Perlis 1922–1990: a founding father of computer science as a separate discipline (Purdue U., CMU, California Institute of Tech, Yale U.) 
|__ 1978 Yale Spencer Rugaber  (Georgia Tech.)
    |__ 2014 Chris Parnin (North Carolina State U.)
		|__ 2019 Denae Ford (Microsoft Research)
		|__ 2021 Chris Brown (Virginia Tech)