Tayana Conte

Tayana Conte is a faculty member at the Institute of Computing, Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. She maintains an active research profile in software engineering with significant contributions to requirements engineering, software modeling, and empirical studies of software development practices. Her work bridges academic research and industry applications, particularly examining the business-development interface in software organizations.

Her primary research interests include:

• Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Software Modeling
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Diversity and Inclusion in Software Engineering
• Software Effort Estimation
• Business-Development Interface in Software Engineering

Dr. Conte's recent publications reveal a strong focus on how organizational culture influences the BizDev interface, with IT professionals increasingly acting in business roles. Her work on software effort estimation examines the behavioral aspects of estimation practices, while her more recent research explores applications of large language models like ChatGPT in systematic literature reviews and data extraction for software engineering research.

She has served on program committees for numerous prestigious conferences including ASE, ICSE, FSE, ESEM, and CIbSE, demonstrating her standing in the international software engineering research community. Notably, she served as Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair for FSE 2024, organizing diversity lunches and panels, and has contributed to systematic literature reviews on intersectionality in computer science.

Dr. Conte is also actively involved in software engineering education, developing active learning strategies for teaching software modeling and examining the alignment between academic curricula and industry demands in software engineering practices.