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Contact information:   Email:  \com\microsoft\nachin Office: (425) 722-7817 Fax:    (425) 936-7329 Mail:    One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052

Nachiappan Nagappan works in the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Research Group (ESM)  at Microsoft Research. His research interests are in the field of software measurement focusing on software metrics, software reliability, failure analysis/prediction and empirical software engineering processes. Prior to his current position he earned his PhD from North Carolina State University in 2005.  

My work primarily focuses on large-scale commercial Microsoft systems. Currently my research interest focuses on the application of software measurement and statistical modeling to software. My work is primarily targeted at making early estimates of software quality to predict post-release failures. We are currently focused on the next generation Windows operating system (Vista) leveraging the rich history of in-process and product metrics available from prior versions of the Windows operating system. I also work on measuring test effectiveness and in defect analysis. Of late I have also begun working on social network analysis of developer contributions. If you have any questions please feel free to send me email.

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