Karina Kohl
Professor & Researcher
Social and Human Aspects of Software Engineering — Institute of Informatics, UFRGS
About
Karina Kohl is a professor at the Institute of Informatics, UFRGS, and researcher at the SEResearch Lab. Her work focuses on the human and social dimensions of software engineering: how developers experience their work, how AI is reshaping technical practice, and how teams can be made more inclusive.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
PUCRS
M.Sc. in Computer Science
UFRGS
B.Sc. in Computer Science
UFRGS
Research Interests
Developer Experience
Human-AI Collaboration
Diversity & Inclusion in SE
ADHD & Accessibility in Tech
Qualitative Research Methods
Teaching
[list your courses here, e.g. Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Research Methods]
Students
Karina advises graduate and undergraduate researchers at the SEResearch Group, working on developer experience, AI, and inclusion in software engineering.
Meet the current team →Selected Publications
[IEEE Software][2026] L. Fortes, G. V. Pereira, A. Coelho, R. Prikladnicki and K. Kohl, "The Productivity Paradox of AI-Powered Development," in IEEE Software, doi: 10.1109/MS.2026.3658651.
[ICSE-FOSE][2026] KOHL, KARINA; CARRO, LUIGI. When Code Becomes Abundant: Redefining Software Engineering Around Orchestration and Verification In: Future of Software Engineering - International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2026.
[SBES][ACCEPTED][2026] Kohl, Karina; Andrade, Anielle. An Emoji-Aware Analysis of Human Sentiment in Agentic Code Review. In: 40th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering. 2026. São Paulo, Brazil.
[CHI][2025] CHA, YOONHA; JACKSON, VICTORIA; KOHL, KARINA; PRIKLADNICKI, RAFAEL; VAN DER HOEK, ANDRÉ; BRANHAM, STACY. The Dilemma of Building Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Solutions For Workplace Accessibility In: CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025, Yokohama Japan. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2025, p.1.
Contact
Email
karina.kohl@inf.ufrgs.br
Address
Instituto de Informática — UFRGS
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil