Vidhyashree Nagaraju
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Biography
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Vidhyashree Nagaraju joined the Stonehill College community in 2023. Previously, she was a tenure-track faculty member in the Tandy School of Computer Science at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. She has also supported NASA's xEVAS spacesuit design project as a senior software safety and reliability engineer with Bastion Technologies/Collins Aerospace in Texas. Her research interests include software reliability and safety, modeling and algorithms, and software engineering.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- M.S., University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Courses Taught
- Computer Science I
- Machine Learning
- S. Pritchard, V. Nagaraju, and L. Fiondella, Automating Staged Rollout with Reinforcement Learning, Accepted at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results track (ICSE '22 NIER), May 2022.
- V. Nagaraju, S. Pritchard, and L. Fiondella, Adaptive Incremental Learning for Software Reliability Growth Models, Accepted at the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2022.
- V. Nagaraju and L. Fiondella, A Hybrid Model Fitting Approach Incorporating Particle Swarm Optimization and Statistical Algorithms, Accepted at the Reliability and Maintenance Engineering Summit, Nantong, China, September 2021.
- V. Nagaraju, C. Jayasinghe, and L. Fiondella, Optimal Test Activity Allocation for Covariate Software Reliability Models, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 168, October 2020.
- V. Nagaraju, V. Shekar, J. Steakelum, M. Luperon, Y. Shi, and L. Fiondella, Practical Software Reliability Engineering with the Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT), SoftwareX, 10, 2020.
- V. Nagaraju and L. Fiondella, A Heterogeneous Single Changepoint Software Reliability Growth Model Framework, Software, Testing Verification and Reliability (STVR), 29(8), 2019.
- S. Bhattacharya, V. Nagaraju, E. Spero, A. Ghoshal, L. Fiondella, Incorporating Quantitative Reliability Engineering Measures into Tradespace Exploration. Research in Engineering Design, 29(4), pp. 589-603, 2018.
- V. Nagaraju, L. Fiondella, C. Jayasinghe, P. Zeephongsekul, and T. Wandji, Performance Optimized Expectation Conditional Maximization Algorithms for Non-homogeneous Poisson Process Software Reliability Models, IEEE Transactions on Reliability (T-Rel), 66(3), pp. 722-734, 2017.
- Dr. Jing Yen Vertical Flight Foundation (VFF) Scholarship for Cost Awareness as a top candidate in the Doctorate degree recipient category (05/17).
- Best Paper Award, Systems Engineering Tools & Processes Session, American Helicopter Society Annual Forum & Technology Display, for reference: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Rotorcraft and Fleet Availability (05/17).
- Second Place in Tom Fagan Student Paper Competition, Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, for reference: A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach to Identify Near-Optimal Non-Equidistant Checkpointing Strategies (01/23).
- APAP 2021 Best Presentation Awards (Oral) in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Power System Automation & Protection, for article: Fault location in High Voltage Multi-terminal dc Networks Using Ensemble Learning (10/21).
- Second Place in Tom Fagan Student Paper Competition, Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, for reference: Online Optimal Release Time for Non-homogeneous Poisson Process Software Reliability Growth Model (01/20).
- Journeyman Fellow from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (09/19–05/20).