Research Interests

Software Engineering
Requirements Engineering
Data Mining and Social Media Analytics
Natural Language Processing
Static code analysis
Software Architecture
Programming languages

Publications

Modeling User Concerns in Sharing Economy: The Case of Food Delivery Apps

G. Williams, M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, Automated Software Engineering, (ASEJ), 2020
Using GitHub in Large Software Engineering Classes: An Exploratory Case Study

M. Tushev, G. Williams, and A. Mahmoud, Journal of Computer Science Education, (CSE), 2019
Modeling User Concerns in the App Store: A Case Study on the Rise and Fall of Yik Yak

G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2018), 2018
Mining Twitter Feeds for Software User Requirements

G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2017), 2017
Analyzing User Comments on YouTube Coding Tutorial Videos

E. Poche, N. Jha, G. Williams, J. Staten, M. Vesper and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2017), 2017
Copper: Bringing Flexible Components to the .NET Framework

G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, Establishing a Community-Wide Infrastructure for Architecture-Based Software Engineering (ICSE: ECASE), 2017
Analyzing, Classifying, and Interpreting Emotions in Software Users Tweets

G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (ICSE: SEmotion), 2017
Mining Twitter Data for a More Responsive Software Engineering Process

G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE: Posters), 2017
Detecting, Classifying, and Tracing Non-Functional Software Requirements

A. Mahmoud and G. Williams, Requirements Engineering Journal - Special Issue on Best Papers of RE'15 (REJ), 2016

Awards

2017 ICSE Student Volunteer
2017 ACM CAPS/NSF Travel Award to Attend the International Conference on Software Engineering
2017 Graduate School Award to Attend the International Conference on Software Engineering
2015 NSF Travel Award to Attend the Requirements Enginering Conference
2015 Clayton Engineering Excellence Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Student

Teaching

CSC 1240 Programming for Engineers (T.A.)
CSC 1350 Introduction to Programming (T.A.)
CSC 1351 Object Oriented Programming (T.A.)
CSC 3501 Computer Organization and Design (T.A.)
CSC 4330 Software Engineering (T.A.)