Synergy Research Lab

School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma

People and machines, working better together.

Synergy Lab builds AI that fits how people use and think about technology: from developers and scientists to students and educators.

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Now recruiting

Come do research with us.

A fully funded PhD position is open for Spring 2027. The lab works across AI for software engineering and human–AI collaboration, from agentic systems to AI for healthcare.

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Research

  • 01 AI for software engineering

    Models and agents that do real software engineering work.

    Latest: Industry Practitioners Perspectives on AI Model Quality: Perceptions, Challenges, and Solutions, EASE 2026

  • 02 Human–AI collaboration

    How developers take up AI tools, and why they put them down.

    Latest: Invisible Strings of Developer Programming Behavior with AI, FSE 2026

  • 03 Requirements engineering

    Working out what a system should do, and keeping that current as it changes.

    Latest: Unveiling Inclusiveness-Related User Feedback in Mobile Applications, TOSEM 2026

  • 04 Quality attributes of software

    Privacy, and the other properties software is judged on besides working.

    Latest: Industry Practitioners Perspectives on AI Model Quality: Perceptions, Challenges, and Solutions, EASE 2026

  • 05 Data mining & empirical methods

    Getting trustworthy answers out of messy software data.

    Latest: Unveiling Inclusiveness-Related User Feedback in Mobile Applications, TOSEM 2026

  • 06 Computing education

    Teaching students to build software for people who are waiting on it.

    Latest: Integrating AI and Entrepreneurship: Preparing CS Undergraduates for Startups and Innovation, SIGCSE TS 2026

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Team

Dr. Ze Shi (Zane) Li Dr. Ze Shi (Zane) Li PI Nam Huynh Nam Huynh PhD Samiul Mushfik Samiul Mushfik PhD All people →

Latest — New paper — Industry Practitioners Perspectives on AI Model Quality: Perceptions, Challenges, and Solutions (EASE 2026)

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Around the lab

Computer Science is housed in Devon Energy Hall, part of the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Devon Energy Hall
Devon Energy Hall
Zarrow Family Faculty & Graduate Student Center
Zarrow Family Faculty & Graduate Student Center
Bizzell Memorial Library
Bizzell Memorial Library

Devon Energy Hall and the Zarrow Center photos courtesy of the University of Oklahoma.

Bizzell Memorial Library photo by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.