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Usmi Mukherjee is a PhD student at Dalhousie University and a researcher at the RAISE Lab, where they work at the intersection of software engineering, AI-driven tooling, natural language processing, and simulation modeling. Her research focuses on building intelligent developer-centric tools, including BugMentor, a retrieval-augmented generation system that answers follow-up questions in incomplete bug reports—and on applying deep reinforcement learning and agent-based modelling to study housing market dynamics. Her work has been published in venues such as the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) and the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) conference.
In the classroom, Usmi is a highly experienced Teaching Assistant with a strong instructional record. She has taught and mentored hundreds of students across numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, creating collaborative, real-world–focused learning environments. She has supported multi-year project courses, guided student teams building community-impact applications, and led tutorials and labs across software engineering, information retrieval, social computing, and advanced development practices.
Beyond research and teaching, Usmi is deeply engaged in service and advocacy. She serves as Vice President (Academic) of the Dalhousie Organization of Graduate Students and works at Dalhousie’s Accessibility Centre, where she supports academic accommodations and champions equitable learning practices.
Beyond academics, she can usually be found outside running or hiking new trails and recently completed a 10K. She is now training for her next goal of running a half-marathon.
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