I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. I received my M.S. in Software Engineering from National Technological University and my B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

My research interests are in Software Engineering. I am currently working on prorram analysis techniques under the guidance of my advisor, Dr. Matthew Dwyer.

I am also interested in Computer Science education. In particular, I would like to find ways to:

• Teach CS0, CS1 & CS2 so that students are aware of and become excited about the wide variety of opportunities available to CS graduates.
• Develop a curriculum that is agile and can evolve with the rapid changes taking place in the field of Computer Science.

Publications

• S.Person, M.Dwyer, S.Elbaum, and C.S.Pasareanu, "Differential Symbolic Execution" to appear in FSE'08.
• C.S.Pasareanu, P.C.Mehlitz, D.H.Bushnell, K.Gundy-Burlet, M.Lowry, S.Person, and M.Pape, "Combining Unit-level Symbolic Execution and System-level Concrete Execution for Testing NASA Software" to appear in ISSTA'08.
• M.Dwyer, S.Elbaum, S.Person, and R. Purandare, "Parallel Randomized State-space Search," in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2007, pp. 3-12.
• S.Elbaum, S.Person, J.Dokulil, and M.Jorde, "Bug Hunt: Making Early Software Testing Lessons Engaging and Affordable," in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2007, pp. 688-697.
• M.Dwyer, S.Person, and S.Elbaum, "Controlling Factors in Evaluating Path-sensitive Error Detection Techniques," in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Portland, OR, November 5-11, 2006, pp. 92-103. (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper)
• L.-K.Soh, A.Samal, S.Person, G.Nugent, and J.Lang, "Analyzing Relationships between Closed Labs and Course Activities in CS1," in Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'05), Capacrica, Portugal, June 27-29, 2005, pp 183-187.
• L.-K.Soh, A.Samal, S.Person, G.Nugent, J.Lang, "Designing, Implementing and Analyzing a Placement Test for Introductory CS Courses," in Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'05), St. Louis, MO, February 23-27, 2005, pp. 505-509.
• L.-K.Soh, A.Samal, S.Person, G.Nugent, J.Lang, "Closed Laboratories with Embedded Instructional Research Design for CS1," in Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'05), St. Louis, MO, February 23-27, 2005, pp. 297-301.