Hassan Khatoonabadi

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher under Dr. Emad Shihab supervision. I received my PhD from Concordia University and my master's and bachelor's degrees from University of Tabriz and Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, respectively.

My research interests include LLM4SE, AI4SE, SE4AI, Software Analytics, and Mining Software Repositories.

Contact​

• Email: sayedhassan.khatoonabadi@concordia.ca
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u9owXqoAAAAJ
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khatoonabadi
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/HKhatoonabadi

Publications​

Journals

• S. Khatoonabadi, A. Abdellatif, D. E. Costa, and E. Shihab, "Predicting the First Response Latency of Maintainers and Contributors in Pull Requests," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024
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• S. Khatoonabadi, D. E. Costa, S. Mujahid, and E. Shihab, "Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-based Development," in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023
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• S. Khatoonabadi, D. E. Costa, R. Abdalkareem, and E. Shihab, "On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests," in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2022
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Conferences

• S. Abedu, L. Menneron, S. Khatoonabadi, and E. Shihab, "RepoChat: An LLM-Powered Chatbot for GitHub Repository Question-Answering," in Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025
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• J. Latendresse, N. Day, S. Khatoonabadi, and E. Shihab, "The Software Librarian: Python Package Insights for Copilot," in Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2025
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Theses

• S. Khatoonabadi, "Pull Request Abandonment in Open-Source Projects," in , 2023
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