Research interests
- Applied NLP
- Software Testing
NB: I only conduct research with undergraduate students.
Research group
My focus at GW is primarily teaching, but I also conduct research with undergraduate students in various areas of NLP. If you are an undergraduate student interested in working with me on a research project, send me an email. Please note I do not work with students over the summer, do not work with students outside the undergradute population, and have very limited bandwidth to take on research projects each semester (between 0-2 groups).
Current NLP research group (Spring 2025):
- Sophia Tamburrino
- Marcell Ambush
Previous student researchers and publications at GWU:
- Kinga Dobolyi, Sidra Hussain, Grady McPeak. Predicting the Utility of Scientific Articles for Emerging Pandemics Using their Titles and Natural Language Processing, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Published online 2024:1-21. doi:10.1017/dmp.2024
- Grady McPeak. Improving BERT Classification Performance on Short Queries About UNIX Commands Using an Additional Round of Fine-Tuning on Related Data, 2022 IEEE 16th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), Washington DC, DC, USA, 2022, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/AICT55583.2022.10013532.
Previous research
Computer vision and NLP applied to biomedical challenges
- Dobolyi et al., Hindsight2020: Characterizing Uncertainty in the COVID-19 Scientific Literature, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, July 2023, 17, E437. doi:10.1017/dmp.2023.82. [github]
- Kinga Dobolyi, Data Scientist / Chris Hinojosa, Emulate, Inc. / Dimitris Manatakis, Emulate, Inc. Computer Vision for analyzing organ-on-a-chip viability in hepatocyte cultures. [github]
Software engineering and testing research
Software Reliability and Security
- Code Reuse: Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice? [survey results]
- AuraBorealis: How We Found 20 Vulnerable Python Packages [github]
- GitGeo: Discover the Geography of Open Source Software
- Changing Java’s Semantics for Handling Null Pointer Exceptions. Kinga Dobolyi, Westley Weimer. International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2008: 47-56
Software Testing and web fault severity
- Automating regression testing using web-based application similarities. Kinga Dobolyi, Elizabeth Soechting, Westley Weimer. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 13(2): 111-129 (2011)
- Modeling Consumer-Perceived Web Application Fault Severities for Testing. Kinga Dobolyi, Westley Weimer. International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2010: 97-106
- Harnessing Web-based Application Similarities to Aid in Regression Testing. Kinga Dobolyi, Westley Weimer. International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2009: 97-106
Other research
- Plug-and-play with BERT as a module in Machine Translation Quality Estimation
- Synthesizing Robustness: can Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) be used to improve the value of synthetic images?
- How Do Interruptions During Designing Affect Design Cognition?. John S. Gero, Hao Jiang, Kinga Dobolyi, Brooke Bellows, and Mick Smythwood. Design Computing and Cognition ’14 pp 119-133