Speaker - Igor Steinmacher

I am the Associate Director for Graduate Programs in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo in 2015 and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine (2013-2014).

My research bridges Software Engineering and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, with a focus on human aspects of software development. I study how to better support newcomers in Open Source Software communities and how emerging technologies—especially foundational models—are reshaping education and software development. More broadly, my work spans empirical software engineering, OSS sustainability, and mining software repositories.