Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track Computer Science
Bio
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Notre Dame, 2016M.S. in Computer Science, West Virginia University 2012B.S. in Computer Science, West Virginia University, 2010
Research interests include:
CS Education, Software Engineering, Software Maintenance and Evolution
Paul "Will" (call him Will) McBurney has been teaching Computer Science courses for over 9 years at 4 different institutions, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Notre Dame, and West Virginia University. He specializes in teaching introductory programming and software engineering. Will is originally from West Virginia, and after 7 years of moving around the country, finally manged to get the "West" out of his location.
Awards
Best Paper Award ICPC2014
GAANN Fellow2012-2016
Research Interests
CS Education
Software Engineering
Software Maintenance and Evolution
Selected Publications
Automated feature discovery via sentence selection and source code summarization. J. Softw. Evol. and Proc., 28: 120– 145. ABSMcBurney, P. W., Liu, C., and McMillan, C. ( 2016)
Automatic documentation generation via source code summarization of method context. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2014). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 279-290. ABSMcBurney, P. W., and McMillan, C.. 2014
Improving automated source code summarization via an eye-tracking study of programmers. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 390-401. Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., McBurney, P.W., Bosch, N., and D'Mello, S.. 2014