Jan 2019 – Started my Ph.D. at Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand with awesome Dr. Rashina Hoda. 🥳

Apr 2019 – Dr. Paramvir Singh joined as my co-supervisor. 🤓

Jun 2019 – Posted my first interview recruitment advertisement “everywhere”. I was super scared that I will not get any responses. Funny, got 16 responses within 2 days! 🙄

Sept 2019 – My first poster at Exposure’19 Postgraduate research competition got selected to the final round! So happy! 🦸🏻‍♀️

Oct 2019 – After 7 rounds of revisions, submitted my first ICSE paper to the NIER track! 🦸🏻‍♀️

Nov 2019 – Got my Ph.D. candidature confirmed. “This was more like a Ph.D. defense” – Partha Roop, panelist said after 1.5 hours long seminar. 🦸🏻‍♀️

Nov 2019 – Said good bye to New Zealand. 😭

Jan 2020 – Joined HumaniSE Lab at Monash University, Australia with Rashina. Team got strong as the wonderful Prof. John Grundy became my co-supervisor. 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️

Jan 2020 – ICSE NIER paper got accepted! I was over the moon! 🤩

Jan 2020 – Submitted a paper to ICSE CHASE workshop. 🦸🏻‍♀️

Feb 2020 – ICSE CHASE paper got accepted! Two in a row!🤩

April 2020 – Submitted a paper to IEEE Software Special Issue on Behavioral Science for Software Engineering. 🦸🏻‍♀️

May 2020 – First paper rejection! IEEE Software paper got rejected. I was not sad. I was surprised why I was not sad. 🧐

May 2020 – I was supposed to present the two papers at ICSE in South Korea. Covid-19 pandemic stopped that. 😩

June 2020 – I was supposed to attend the very first Human Aspects in Software Engineering Summer School in Sweden. Still the Covid-19 did it’s thing. Summer school got cancelled. 😩

June 2020 – My first survey is out! Very excited! 🦸🏻‍♀️

June 2020 – Survey got crtiqued by a set of agile practitioners. That made us realize that there’s a gap between the research community and the industry and agile requirements engineering needs its own language. With these requirements, it was not possible to move forward with the current topic. Therefore, we changed the scope. 🤯

June 2020 – Submitted the paper which got rejected by IEEE Software to FSE conference as a Visions paper. 🦸🏻‍♀️

June 2020 – I became the supervisor of a team of 4 final year Software Engineering students! This is my first experience in supervising! 🦸🏻‍♂️

July 2020 – Presented virtually at ICSE 2020! My very first experience! 🦸🏻‍♀️ Almost cried after seeing the last announcement on CLOWDR. 😔

July 2020 – Updated survey is out again. 🦸🏻‍♀️

July 2020 – Previously rejected paper got rejected again. It was a weak reject. Reviewers loved the paper but they had to reject because we don’t have results (Paper is totally visionary). Did some minor tweaks and submitted again to a different venue. Waiting to see the luck of this paper. 😂 🦸🏻‍♀️

Aug 2020 – Finally the paper got accepted to Human Centric Software Engineering and Cyber Security workshop at ASE 2020! 🦸🏻‍♀️

Sept 2020 – I presented “Towards Better Understanding of Agile Teams through Behavior Change Models” at HCSE-CS workshop at ASE 2020. 🦸🏻‍♀️

Oct 2020 – I was appointed as the Publicity and Social Media Chair of ASE 2021! Kla will be chairing too. This is my very first experience in being a chair at a conference! 🦸🏻‍♀️

Nov 2020 – My students did a great job in their research project. I am really happy and proud! HDs! Scored the highest from the class – AU and MY! 🦸🏻‍♂️

Nov 2020 – Running survey II. 🦸🏻‍♂️

Nov 2020 – CHASE’21 Social Media Chair 🦸🏻‍♀️

Dec 2020 – Submitted “A Multi-dimensional Study of Requirements Changes in Agile Software Development Projects” to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Co-authored by Rashina and John 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️

Dec 2020 – CHASE’21 Programme Committee Member 🦸🏻‍♀️

Dec 2020 – XP’21 Poster Co-Chair 🦸🏻‍♀️

Jan 2021 – Received the first paper review invitation from CHI’21 conference for the Late Breaking Work track 🦸🏻‍♀️

Jan 2021 – Did my progress review seminar. “This is like a thesis defense” said my panelists 😊 Heard the same at the provisional year review at The University of Auckland. Stepping to the final year of my Ph.D. 🦸🏻‍♀️

Feb 2021 – Delivered a lightning talk at the Australasian Computer Science Week 2021 🦸🏻‍♀️