Janet’s research spans several areas. Her main research area is in design rationale, a sub-field of artificial intelligence in design. Design rationale describes the reasons behind decisions made when designing software or other artifacts. This information can be potentially valuable to assist with design modification and re-use but is often difficult to obtain. Her research in using text mining to extract rationale from existing documents was funded under an NSF CAREER award and her most recent paper in the area (written with graduate and undergraduate students) was presented at the International Conference on Design, Computing, and Cognition (2016). She is also co-author of the book “Rationale-Based Software Engineering,” published by Springer (2008). Most recently she has been studying design theory and her paper “Untangling Wicked Problems” with Raymond McCall from the University of Colorado, Boulder, was published in the Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Journal (2016). In addition to her design research, Janet is also an active researcher in computer science education. She led a large multi-institution NSF-funded project to incorporate communication into the CS curriculum and most recently has been studying if using design rationale in class assignments helps students produce better designs; research that was most recently presented at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education conference (2016).