Tien Nguyen

I am a rising third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech under the advise of Dr. Muhammad Ali Gulzar. My research focuses on software engineering, testing, and debugging. I'm also known as Tien Soare.

News

April 28, 2025
MSR '25 paper invited for EMSE journal submission
Jan 16, 2025
The qualifier exam has been waived
Jan 12, 2025
One first-author paper accepted to MSR 2025

Publications

Are The Majority of Computational Notebooks Pathologically Non-Executable?

Tien Nguyen, Waris Gill, and Muhammad Ali Gulzar
2025 IEEE/ACM 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
doi: 10.1109/MSR66628.2025.00070

Education

Virginia Tech

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Aug 2023 - Present

University of St. Thomas

Bachelor in Computer Science
Aug 2020 - May 2022

Century College

Associate in Computer Science
Jan 2018 - May 2020

Experience

Virginia Tech

Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2023 - Present

University of St. Thomas

Information Security Coordinator
Feb 2022 - May 2022

Target

Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Teaching

CS 1064 Introduction to Programming in Python (Fall '24, Spring '25)
CS 1114 Introduction to Software Engineering in Java (Fall '23)

CV

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