This list contains my most recent research papers and publications. My updated bibliography may also be found on Google Scholar.

• NC State (graduate)      
Duke (undergraduate)       Industry

Conference Papers:

• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Understanding the Impact of GitHub Suggested Changes on Recommendations Between Developers. Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020). [reddit, talk]
• Peipei Wang, Chris Brown, Jamie A. Jennings, and Kathryn T. Stolee. An Empirical Study on Regular Expression Bugs. International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020).
• Peng Sun, Chris Brown, Ivan Beschastnikh, and Kathryn Stolee. Mining Specifications from Documentation Using a Crowd. International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2019).
• Chris Brown, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Justin Middleton, and Esha Sharma. How Software Users Recommend Tools to Each Other. Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2017).
• Justin Smith, Chris Brown, and Emerson Murphy-Hill. Flower: Navigating Program Flow in the IDE. Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2017).
Susan H. Rodger, Dwayne Brown, Michael Hoyle, Daniel MacDonald, Michael Marion, Elizabeth Onstwedder, Bella Onwumbiko, and Edwin Ward. Weaving Computing into all Middle School Disciplines. Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2014).

Workshop Papers:

• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Dark Patterns for Influencing Developer Behavior. What Can CHI Do About Dark Patterns? Workshop (Dark Patterns 2021).
• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Nudging Students Toward Better Software Engineering Behaviors. International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2021). [pre-print]
• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Comparing Different Developer Behavior Recommendation Styles. International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2020). [talk]
• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Sorry to Bother You Again: Developer Recommendation Choice Architectures for Designing Effective Bots. International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2020). [talk]
• Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. Sorry to Bother You: Designing Bots for Effective Recommendations. International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2019).
Susan H. Rodger, Steve Cooper, Wanda Dann, Dwayne C. Brown, Jr., and Jacobo Carrasquel. "Experimenting with and Integrating Alice 2.3 into Many Disciplines" (Abstract only). Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2013).

Doctoral Symposium:

• Chris Brown. Nudges for Encouraging Developer Actions. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019). [slides]

Posters:

Susan H. Rodger, Dwayne C. Brown, Jr., Michael Hoyle, and Michael Marion. Integrating Computer Science into Middle School Mathematics. Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2013).

Presentations and Invited Talks

• DiamondHacks. Introduction to GitHub Workshop. North Carolina State University, Virtual. March 27, 2021. [slides]
• Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Digital Nudges for Encouraging Developer Behaviors. North Carolina State University Graduate School, Virtual. September 24, 2020. [talk, slide]
• Software engineering (CSC326) lecture presentation. "CSC 326 Team Project Bot". North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. March 2, 2020. [slides]
DevConf 2019. Sorry to Bother You! Effective Open Source Software Recommendations. Red Hat. Boston, MA. August 17, 2019. [slides]
• Lightning Talk. NC State Free Open Source Software Interest Group (FOSS). Raleigh, NC. January 25, 2019
Quality Engineering Camp (QECampX). How to Improve Software Tool Discovery and Usage. Red Hat. Raleigh, NC. October 10, 2018. [slides]
Intern Expo. Red Hat. Raleigh, NC, August 2018
• Lightning Talk. NC State Linux User's Group. Raleigh, NC. February 28, 2018
• Wednesday Research Meeting. "How Software Users Recommend Tools to Each Other". Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. Raleigh, NC. November 29, 2017
Intern Expo. Red Hat. Raleigh, NC. August 2017
Intern Showcase. Blackbaud. Charleston, SC. August 2016

White Papers (non-published):

• Digital Nudges for Encouraging Developer Behaviors. Dissertation Proposal Oral Preliminary Exam. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, December 2019. [slides]
Automated Program Repair. Red Hat Satellite 6 Quality Engineering Team. Red Hat, Raleigh, NC, July 2017.
• Receptive Users and Time-Insensitive Recommendations Improve Tool Discovery. Written Preliminary Exam. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, February 2017. [slides]
• Analyzing the Impact of Patches in Computer Science Education. Automated Program Repair (CSC791) project. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Fall 2016.
• Chris Brown, Effat Farhana. Does money motivate software engineers to improve the quality of their work?. Software Engineering as a Human Activity (CSC710) project. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Spring 2016.
• Chris Brown, Christa Cody, Nicolas Mignotte. WildSnap: Mobile Android application for wildlife/plant identification. Human-Computer Interaction (CSC554) project. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Fall 2015.
Integrating Computer Science Into Middle School Mathematics. Duke Computer Science Undergraduate Research Fellowship (CSURF) thesis. Duke University, Durham, NC, Spring 2013.
Applications for Robotics. Computing Research Association Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates (DREU). Brown University, Providence, RI, Summer 2011.

Miscellaneous:

Chris Brown. Ball Durham. Editor and Staff Writer for the Duke Blue Devils' sports FanSided website Ball Durham, 2013-2018.