Research interests

NB: I am no longer taking on research advisees

Previous student researchers and publications at GWU:

• Kinga Dobolyi, Sophia Tamburrino, Zoe Borden, and Jess Faruque. “Can Computers Understand Banter? Building and evaluating classifiers and Large Language Models on banter detection and generation”, to appear in proceedings of 20th International Conference on Semantic Computing, Laguna Hills, CA, 2026.
• Kinga Dobolyi, Petra Chuenarrom, and Marcell Ambush. “Correlation Between Socio-Political Events and the Literary Publishing Landscape Between 2010–2024”, to appear in Publishing Research Quarterly, Volume 42, Number 1, 2026.
• 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

Image from https://github.com/IQTLabs/hindsight2020

• 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]

Image from https://www.iqt.org/an-ai-based-application-using-organ-on-a-chip-data/

• 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

Image from https://www.iqt.org/code-reuse-holy-grail-or-poisoned-chalice/

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

• Lab41: 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