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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Feb 2025

Paper Accepted

Our paper titled 'Exploring Culturally Informed AI Assistants: A Comparative Study of ChatBlackGPT and ChatGPT' has been accepted at CHI 2025 (LBW)!

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Dec 2024

Paper Accepted

Our report titled 'Towards Decoding Developer Cognition in the Age of AI Assistants' has been accepted at SANER 2025 (RR)!

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Research

Current Projects

Here are some projects I'm actively working on

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

Exploring Prompt Decomposition Techniques 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

Understanding Software Engineers’ Information Needs and Seeking Behaviors While Using AI-Enabled Assistants (ArXiv)

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

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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