Emad Aghayi is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason
University. He is a member of the Developer Experience Design Lab, which studies how humans interact
with code and
designs new ways of building software. He works at the intersection of software engineering and
human-computer interaction. His research goal
is to make developers more productive by providing better development tools and approaches. To achieve
this goal, his research involves
understanding developer behaviors, identifying problems, and designing tools and approaches to help with
those problems using various HCI
methods at each stage. Specifically, he researches and designs on the crowdsourcing in software
engineering. He received a BS degree in information technology from the Shiraz University of Technology in 2010 and an
MS in information technology at the University of Tehran
in 2014. He is highly skilled
software development professional bringing more than 8 years in software design, development,
integration and interacting with customers.