Yuan Tian is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Queen’s University. Her long-term research goal is to help people gain insights from messy data stored in all kinds of software repositories and propose context-aware data-driven approaches to improve the efficiency and capabilities of various stakeholders in software development process.

Before joining Queen’s, She was a data scientist at the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), Singapore Management University (SMU). Dr. Tian received her Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from SMU in 2017 with extended visits to Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 and Inria Paris in 2013.

Dr. Tian leads the RISE research lab which develops reliable and intelligent support for software development. RISE’s current research topics include automatic technical debt and bug management, pull-based code change management, software engineering for data science and machine learning workflows, and social science in software engineering.