Hello, I'm Ebtesam.

I'm a Computer Science PhD Student at George Mason University advised by Dr. Brittany Johnson-Matthews
My research interests are broadly in software engineering, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing.

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Apr 2025

Paper Accepted

Our paper titled 'The Evolution of Information Seeking in Software Development: Understanding the Role and Impact of AI Assistants' has been accepted at HumanAISE (FSE 2025 Workshop)!

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Mar 2025

Presentation

Presenting our ongoing work on 'Code-Decomp: Automated Prompt Decomposition for Code Generation' at CAPWIC 2025 at George Washington University!

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Research

Current Projects

Here are some projects I'm actively working on

Automated Prompt Decomposition for Code Generation CAPWIC '25

Collaborators: Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University)

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NLP

Towards Decoding Developer Cognition in the Age of AI Assistants SANER '25

Collaborators: Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University), Thomas LaToza (George Mason University), Chris Brown (Virginia Tech)

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HCI

Facilitating Trust in AI-assisted Software Tools (under review)

Collaborators: Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University), Christian Bird (Microsoft Research), Denae Ford-Robinson (Microsoft Research), Thomas Zimmermann (University of California, Irvine), Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research)

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HCI

The Evolution of Information Seeking in Software Development: Understanding the Role and Impact of AI Assistants HumanAISE (FSE '25)

Collaborators: Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University), Thomas LaToza (George Mason University), Chris Brown (Virginia Tech)

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HCI

Exploring Culturally Informed AI Assistants: A Comparative Study of ChatBlackGPT and ChatGPT CHI '25 LBW

Collaborators: Lisa Egede (Carnegie Mellon University), Gabriella Thompson (University of Texas at Austin), Alicia Boyd (Yale University), Angela D.R. Smith (University of Texas at Austin), Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University)

HCI

Engaging Marginalized Groups in Data-Centric Research & Development HCOMP '24

Collaborators: Brittany Johnson-Matthews (George Mason University), Angela D.R. Smith (University of Texas at Austin), Denae Ford-Robinson (Microsoft Research), Gabriella Thompson (University of Texas at Austin), Measure (Data Activism and Research Organization)

HCI

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