Academics Qualifications:

• 2018- PhD in Computer Science, Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany.
• 2012- Master degree of Computer Science (with high distinction), Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany.
• 2008- B.Sc of IT with First Honor Degree, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University.

Awards:

• 2017 - Best paper award at ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM).
• 2011 and 2010- Excellence awards from the Cultural Bureau of Saudi Arabia in Berlin, Germany for the high academic performance.
• 2008- Ranking "First" on the bachelor classes of the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University.

Publications:

• “Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help”, Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes, GianisaAdisaputri, Richard Torkar, Vladimir Kovalenko, Marcos Kalinowski, Nicole Novielli, Shin Yoo, Xavier Devroey, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou, Burak Turhan, Rashina Hoda, Hideaki Hata, Gregorio Robles, Amin MilaniFard, Rana Alkadhi. Empirical Software Engineering, 2020.
• “Decision Knowledge Triggers in Continuous Software Engineering” ,Anja Kleebaum, Jan Ole Johanssen, Barbara Paech, Rana Alkadhi, and Bernd Bruegge. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE), 2018, pages 23–26.
• “How Do Developers Discuss Rationale?”, Rana Alkadhi, Manuel Nonnenmacher, Emitza Guzman, and BerndBruegge.In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2018, pages 357–369.
• “REACT: An Approach for Capturing Rationale in Chat Messages.”, Rana Alkadhi, Jan Ole Johanssen, Emitza Guzman, and Bernd Bruegge. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2017, pages 175–180. (Best Paper Award)
• “An Exploratory Study of Twitter Messages about Software Applications “, Emitza Guzman, Rana Alkadhi, and Norbert Seyff. Requirements Engineering Journal, 2017, vol. 22, no. 3, pages 387–412.
• “Rationale in Development Chat Messages: An Exploratory Study.”, Rana Alkadhi, Teodora Láta, Emitza Guzman, and Bernd Bruegge.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2017, pages 436–446.
• “A Needle in a Haystack: What Do Twitter Users Say about Software?” Emitza Guzman, Rana Alkadhi, and Norbert Seyff.In Proceedings of the 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2016, pages 96–105. (Best Paper Nominee)
• “Context-Aware User Feedback in Continuous Software Evolution” Dora Dzvonyar, Stephan Krusche, Rana Alkadhi, and Bernd Bruegge.In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery (CSED), 2016, pages 12–18.
• “Can Collaborative Tagging Improve User Feedback? A Case Study”, Rana Alkadhi, Dennis Pagano, and Bernd Bruegge. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE), 2014, pages 1–8.
• “Application of a Dynamic Programming Method to Enlarged Version of Stoleru's Economic Model “, Rana Alkadhi, Nikolai Botkin and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. 15th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization, 2012, vol. 45, no. 25, pages 14–20.