Sonia Haiduc

Sonia Haiduc is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University (FSU). Her research focuses on software engineering, particularly software maintenance, evolution, program comprehension, and source code search. She holds a Ph.D. (2013) and M.Sc. (2009) from Wayne State University, and a B.Sc. (2006) from Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania.

**Education:**

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2013
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2009
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, 2006

**Research Interests:**

• Software Engineering Methodologies
• Source Code Analysis
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Video Tutorials for Software Learning
• Developer Communications
• Human Factors in Software Development

Her service contributions include organizing key conferences like IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) and chairing roles in workshops such as Mining Unstructured Data (MUD). She has been recognized with awards including the Google Anita Borg Scholarship and multiple ACM SIGSOFT travel awards.

**Grants & Labs:**

• Director of the SERENE Group at FSU
• National Science Foundation Award CCF-1526929 (2015–2018): Focuses on text retrieval in software engineering

Teaching spans courses like Software Engineering II and Graduate Software Engineering, with extensive TA experience in foundational computer science courses.