Pooja Rani

Pooja Rani is a Senior Researcher at the Software Evolution and Architecture Lab (SEAL), Department of Informatics, University of Zurich. She holds a PhD from the University of Bern (2022) and an M.E. in Software Systems from BITS Pilani (2017). With industry experience at Samsung, VMware, and People Interactive Ltd., she bridges theoretical and practical software engineering.

Her research focuses on:

• Empirical Software Engineering, particularly developer practices in code comprehension and maintenance.
• Green Software Engineering, including energy anti-patterns and sustainability tooling.
• NLP and machine learning applications in software evolution, documentation quality, and polyglot environments.
• AI-driven approaches for debugging, testing, and optimization.

Her publications emphasize energy efficiency in software systems, AI-assisted development tools, code comment analysis, and metamorphic testing. Recent work explores LLMs for sustainable coding, object-centric debugging, and autonomous system validation.

She actively advises students, with ongoing supervision of 15+ BSc/MSc theses on topics like comment quality, energy anti-patterns, and polyglot development. She collaborates internationally with institutions including TU Delft, Inria, and the University of Victoria.