Skip to main content

Khaled Badran

I am Master’s student at Concordia University studying software engineering. I work in the Data-Driven Analysis of Software Lab under the supervision of Dr. Emad Shihab as a research assistant. My research interests include software bots/chatbots, mining software repositories, and natural language processing.

Publications​

Journals

  • K. Badran, P. Cote, A. Kolopanis, R. Bouchoucha, A. Collante, D. Costa, and E. Shihab, "Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?," in IEEE Computer SI: Software Engineering for Responsible AI, 2022
    PDF
  • A. Abdellatif, K. Badran, D. Costa, and E. Shihab, "A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
    PDF
  • A. Abdellatif, K. Badran, and E. Shihab, "MSRBot: Using Bots to Answer Questions from Software Repositories," in Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2020
    PDF

Conferences

  • A. Abdellatif, K. Badran, D. E. Costa, and E. Shihab, "A Transformer-based Approach for Augmenting Software Engineering Chatbots Datasets," in Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'24), 2024
    PDF
  • A. Abdellatif, D. E. Costa, K. Badran, R. Abdelkareem, and E. Shihab, "Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts," in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'20), 2020
    PDF

Awards​

  • Top Concordian Graduate Entrance Scholarship (Summer 2021)
  • Undergraduate Student Research Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Summer 2020)
  • Concordia’s Dean’s List Award (2020 – 2021)
  • Undergraduate Student Research Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Summer 2019)
  • Concordia’s Dean’s List Award (2019 – 2020)
  • Concordia’s Dean’s List Award (2018 – 2019)
  • Concordia’s Dean’s List Award (2017 – 2018)

Service​

  • Virtualization Chair: BotSE ’21 – The Third International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (co-located with ICSE 2021).
  • Virtualization Chair: BotSE ’20 – The Second International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (co-located with ICSE 2020).

Posters​

  • A. Abdellatif, K. Badran, and E. Shihab, “A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding (NLUs) Engines for Software Bots” at Consortium for Software Engineering Research, Fall 2019 Meeting, Markham, Toronto, Canada [Best Poster Award].
  • K. Badran, Ahmad Abdellatif, and Emad Shihab, “Chatting With Your Software Project”, Fall 2019 NSERC Student Presentation, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Contact​

  • Email: k_badran [at] encs [dot] concordia [dot] ca

  • Alternative Email: badrankhaled97 [at] gmail [dot] com