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Our paper “Privacy Dynamics: Learning Privacy Norms for Social Software” by Gul Calikli, Mark Law, Arosha K. Bandara, Alessandra Russo, Luke Dickens, Blaine A. Price, Avelie Stuart, Mark Levine, and Bashar Nuseibeh has been submitted to 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2016).
Our paper “Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Confirmation Bias Levels of Software Engineers” by Gul Calikli and Ayse Bener has been published in Software Quality Journal Volume 23, Issue 4, pp 695-722
The book titled "Analyzing Software Data", Christian Bird, Tim Menzies and Thomas Zimmerman (Eds.), has been published by Morgan Kaufman. Our chapter "Software Analytics Patterns In Practice", by Ayse Bener, Ayse Tosun-Misirli, Bora Caglayan, Ekrem Kocaguneli and Gul Calikli is also among the contents of this book.
Our chapter "Software Analytics Patterns In Practice", by Ayse Bener, Ayse Tosun-Misirli, Bora Caglayan, Ekrem Kocaguneli and Gul Calikli has been accepted to be published in the book titled "Analyzing Software Data", Christian Bird, Tim Menzies and Thomas Zimmerman (Eds.), by Morgan Kaufman in 2014.
Our paper “Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Confirmation Bias Levels of Software Engineers” by Gul Calikli and Ayse Bener has been accepted for publication in the Software Quality Journal.
Our paper titled “Personal Informatics for Non-Geeks: Lessons Learned from Ordinary People” by Gul Calikli, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Arosha Bandara, Blaine Price and Bashar Nuseibeh has been accepted to the Ubicomp Workshop (Ubicomp 2014). Details about Ubicomp 2014 can be found here
I joined the Open University, Department of Computing, Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology as a post-doctoral research fellow. As a post doctoral fellow, I will be working on the EPSRC funded "Privacy Dynamics" Project that investigates the aspects of privacy dynamics in collaboration with the Imperial College and the Exeter University. The Open University aims to contribute to Software Engineering for Privacy, by building on the social psychology results from the Exeter University, and "plugging in" or adapting the machine learning capabilities resulting from the Imperial College.
Our paper "Towards a Metric Suite Proposal to Quantify Confirmation Biases of Developers" by Gul Calikli, Ayse Bener, Turgay Aytac and Ovunc Bozcan has been selected by the program chairs of ESEM 2013 as the Best Industry Experience Paper.
CSMR-WCRE 2014 - Software Evolution Week is approaching. Software Evolution Week joins The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) with The European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR). Consider submitting!!! Deadlines for paper submissions and all other details about the event can be found here.
Our chapter "Field Studies", by Ayse Tosun-Misirli, Ayse Bener, Bora Caglayan, Gul Calikli and Burak Turhan has been accepted to be published in the book titled "Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering", Martin P. Robillard, Walid Maalej, Robert W. Walker and Thomas Zimmerman (Eds.), by Springer in late 2013 or early 2014.
Our paper titled "Towards a Metric Suite Proposal to Quantify Confirmation Biases of Developers" by Gul Calikli, Ayse Bener, Turgay Aytac and Ovunc Bozcan has been accepted to the 7th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2013), Industry Track. Details about ESEM 2013 can be found here .
Our paper titled “An Algorithmic Approach to Missing Data Problem in Modeling Human Aspects in Software Development” by Gul Calikli and Ayse Bener has been accepted to the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE 2013). Details about PROMISE 2013 can be found here .
Our non-archival proposal “Evaluating Dione: A Decision Support Tool for Software Development” by Gul Calikli, Bora Caglayan, Ayse Bener, Ayse Tosun, Burak Turhan and Turgay Aytac has been accepted to the USER 2013 Workshop. Details about the USER Workshop can be found here.
Our paper “The Impact of Confirmation Bias on the Release-based Defect Prediction of Developer Groups” by Gul Calikli and Ayse Bener has been accepted to the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2013). The call for papers and other details can be found here.
I have given an invited talk at York University, Lassonde Building (Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering Building). Slides for the talk titled "Confirmation Bias as a Human Aspect in Software Engineering: Task Assignment and Handling Missing Data" can be found here.
I have given an invited talk at Microsoft Research Redmond. Slides for our talk titled "Confirmation Bias as a Human Aspect in Software Engineering" can be found here. You can also find the video of the talk here.
I joined the Mechanical-Industrial Engineering Department of Ryerson University as a post-doctoral fellow in the Data Science Laboratory led by Prof. Ayse Bener.
Our paper “Modeling Human Aspects to Enhance Software Quality Management” by Gul Calikli, Bora Caglayan, Ayse Tosun Misirli and Ayse Bener has been accepted to the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012). The call for papers and other details can be found here.
Our paper “Dione: An Integrated Measurement and Defect Prediction Solution” by Bora Caglayan, Ayse Tosun Misirli, Gul Calikli, Ayse Bener and Burak Turhan has been accepted to the 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. The call for papers and other details can be found here.
I successfully defended my dissertation titled “Improving Performance of Defect Predictors Using Confirmation Bias Metrics” and earned my PhD in Computer Science.
Our paper “Influence of Confirmation Biases of Developers on Software Quality” by Gul Calikli and Ayse Bener has been accepted for publication in the Software Quality Journal.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Empirical software engineering
- Human aspects in software engineering
- Mining Software Repositories
- Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering
- Software engineering for Privacy-aware Adaptive Systems
PUBLICATIONS
Journals
- G. Calikli and A. Bener, “Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Confirmation Bias Levels of Software Engineers“, (23)4:695-722, Software Quality Journal, 2015 (electronic access published on 2014)
- G. Calikli and A. Bener, “Influence of Confirmation Biases of Developers on Software Quality: An Empirical Study“, (21)2:377-416, Software Quality Journal, 2013 (electronic access published on 2012)
Invited Talks
- Microsoft Research Redmond, "Confirmation Bias as a Human Aspect in Software Engineering", January 16, 2013, Redmond, WA, USA. Download slides and Watch video
- York University, Lassonde Building (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Building), "Confirmation Bias in Software Engineering: Task Assignment and Handling Missing Data", March 26, 2013, Toronto, ON, Canada. Download slides
- Gebze Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering, "Modeling Human Aspects in Software Engineering", October 3, 2013, Cayirova, Kocaeli, Turkey.
- Bournemouth University, Department of Computing and Informatics, "Elicitation of Privacy Requirements by Using Personas", February 23, 2014, Poole, Dorset, UK.
Book Chapters
- A. Bener, A. Tosun-Misirli, B. Caglayan, E. Kocaguneli and G. Calikli, “"Lessons Learned from Software Analytics in Practice"“, in "The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data", Tim Menzies, Christian Bird and Thomas Zimmerman (Eds.), Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2015.
- A. Tosun-Misirli, A. Bener, B. Caglayan, G. Calikli and B. Turhan, “"Part II. Evaluation: Field Studies"“, in "Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering", Martin P. Robillard, Walid Maalej, Robert W. Walker and Thomas Zimmerman (Eds.), Springer, 2014.
Conferences
- G. Calikli, M. Law, A. K. Bandara, A. Russo, L. Dickens, B. A. Price, A. Stuart, M. Levine and B. Nuseibeh “Privacy Dynamics: Learning Privacy Norms for Social Software ”, 11th International Symposium on Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2016), Austin, Texas, USA, May 16-17, 2016 (accepted).
- G. Calikli, M. S. Andersen, B. A. Price, A. K. Bandara and B. Nuseibeh “Personal Informatics for Non-Geeks: Lessons Learned from Ordinary People ”, Ubicomp Adjunct 2014, Seattle, Washington, USA, September 13-17, 2014.
- G. Calikli, A. Bener, T. Aytac and O. Bozcan “Towards a Metric Suite Proposal to Quantify Confirmation Biases of Developers ”, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2013), Industry Track (ESEM 2013), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 10-11, 2013. BEST PAPER AWARD (Best Industry Experience Paper)
- G. Calikli and A. Bener “Analyzing the Effects of Confirmation Bias on Software Development Team Performance: A Field Study during a Hackathon ”, 39th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Work In Progress Track (SEAA 2013), Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013.
- G. Calikli and A. Bener “An Algorithmic Approach to Missing Data Problem in Modeling Human Aspects in Software Development ”, the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE 2013), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October, 2013.
- B. Caglayan, G. Calikli, A. Bener, A. Tosun-Misirli, B. Turhan and T. Aytac “Evaluating Dione: A Decision Support Tool for Software Development ”, 2nd Workshop on User evaluations for Software Engineering Researchers (USER: ICSE 2013 Workshop) (non-archival paper), San Francisco, USA, May, 2013.
- G. Calikli and A. Bener, “The Impact of Confirmation Bias on the Release-based Defect Prediction of Developer Groups”, 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2013), Boston, USA, June, 2013.
- G. Calikli, B. Caglayan, A. Tosun Misirli and A. Bener, “Modeling Human Aspects to Enhance Software Quality Management”, 2012 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012), Orlando Florida, USA, December, 2012.
- B. Caglayan, A. Tosun Misirli, G. Calikli, T. Aytac, A. Bener and B. Turhan, “Dione: An Integrated Measurement and Defect Prediction Solution”, 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, Cary, North Carolina, USA, September, 2012.
- G. Calikli, and A. Bener, “Empirical Analyses of the Factors Affecting Confirmation Bias and the Effects of Confirmation Bias on Software Developer/ Tester Performance”, Promise 2010, Tmisoara, Romania, September, 12-13, 2010.
- G. Calikli, and A. Bener, “Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of Confirmation Bias on Software Defect Density”, ESEM 2010, Bozen, Italy, September, 16-17, 2010.
- G. Calikli, B. Arslan and A. Bener, “Confirmation Bias in Software Development and Testing: An Analysis of the Effects of Company Size, Experience and Reasoning Skills”, 22nd Annual Psychology of Programming Interest Group Workshop, 19-21 September 2010.
- G. Calikli, A. Bener, and B. Arslan, “An Analysis of the Effects of Company Culture, Education and Experience on Confirmation Bias Levels of Software Developers and Testers”, ICSE 2010, May 2-8, Cape Town.
- G. Calikli, A. Tosun, A. Bener, and M. Celik, “The Effect of Granularity Level on Software Defect Prediction", Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2009), pp. 531-536.
- O. Korcak, G. Calikli, I. Kaya and F. Alagöz, “Performance Evaluation of Adaptive and Static Routing Algorithms and Contention Resolution Techniques in LEO Satellite Constellations”, IEEE Recent Advances in Space Technologies RAST2005, June 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
- G. Calikli and M. U. Caglayan, “A Formal Policy Specification Language for an 802.11 WLAN with Enhanced Security Network”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.3733, Proc. of the 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, pp.183-192, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
MS Thesis
- Gul Calikli, “A Policy Specification Language for an 802.11WLAN with Enhanced Security Network”, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004.
PhD Thesis
- Gul Calikli, “Improving Performance of Defect Predictors Using Confirmation Bias Metrics”, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
EDUCATION
- 2005-2012 PhD, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University
- 2002-2005 MS, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University
- 1996-2000 BS, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University
Summer Schools
- 2006 Marktoberdorf Summer School on Software System Reliability and Security, August 1-13, Marktoberdorf, Munchen, Germany.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching at Ryerson University (Fall 2012)
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE (Instructor)
- CITM 102: Business Information Systems 1
GRADUATE COURSE (Teaching Assistant)
- MT 8103: Research Methods 1
Assisted Courses at Bogazici University
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
- CMPE 150: Introduction to Computing (C)
- CMPE 150: Introduction to Computing (Java)
- CMPE 160: Introduction to Object Oriented Computing
- CMPE 300: Analysis of Algorithms
- CMPE 322: Operating Systems
- CMPE 344: Computer Organization
- CMPE 352: Fundamentals of Software Engineering
- CMPE 450: Software Engineering
- CMPE 451: Project Development in Software Engineering
- CMPE 475: Computer Netwroks
- CMPE 476: Distributed Systems
GRADUATE courses
- CMPE 550: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering
- CMPE 58M: Software Engineering Economics and Risk Management
- CMPE 589: Software Quality Modeling