Venera Arnaoudova
About
My name is Venera Arnaoudova (pronounced: Ven-air-uh Are-now-oo-dova). I am an Associate Professor at Washington State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). I am currently the Associate Director of the School of EECS and a Voiland College’s inaugural Dean’s Faculty Fellow. Previously, I had the opportunity to work as a postdoctoral research fellow with Dr. Andrian Marcus at The University of Texas at Dallas. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2014 from Polytechnique Montréal (Canada) under the supervision of Dr. Giuliano Antoniol and Dr. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. In 2008, I received my master degree in Computer Science from Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). In 2006, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Automation from Polytech’Lille (Lille, France). My research interest is in the domain of software engineering and particularly, software evolution, empirical software engineering, program comprehension, analysis of source code lexicon and documentation, refactoring, patterns, and anti-patterns.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
A hybrid query engine for the structural analysis of Java and AspectJ programs
Year: 2008
Citations: 2
Venue: 2008 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Latest Recorded Paper
Context-Specific Instruction: A Longitudinal Study on Debugging Skill Acquisition and Retention for Novice Programmers
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22420
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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