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I am Associate Professor at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Jena, Germany. I was a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnic University of Bari and the University of L’Aquila. My research interests include Recommender Systems, Mining Software Repositories, and Machine Learning. Recently, I have been working to develop recommender systems for Software Engineering, mining open source code repositories to support software programmers.

Research interests:

• Mining Software Repositories. Open-source software (OSS) forges, such as GitHub or Maven, offer many software projects that deliver stable and well-documented products. Most OSS forges typically sustain vibrant user and expert communities which in turn provide decent support, both for answering user questions and repairing reported software bugs. Moreover, OSS platforms are also an essential source of consultation for developers in their daily development tasks. We have conceptualized various techniques and tools to assist developers in their programming tasks.
• Recommender Systems. Within different research projects, we have developed various recommender systems to provide developers with useful recommendations, consisting of different items, such as code examples, topics, third-party components, to name a few.  
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The proliferation of disruptive Machine Learning (ML) and especially Deep Learning (DL) algorithms has enabled a plethora of applications across several domains. Such techniques work on the basis of complex artificial neural networks, which are capable of effectively learning from data by means of a large number of parameters distributed in different network layers. We have successfully studied and deployed various Machine Learning techniques in Software Engineering and other domains.

Habilitation:

I got the Italian habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor for the following two independent sectors:

• Computer Science (01/B1: Informatica, II fascia): https://bit.ly/45fVov8.
• Computer Engineering (09/H1: Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni, II fascia): https://bit.ly/47DMZ6g.

Academic service:

• Associate Editor of Springer Applied Intelligence (https://link.springer.com/journal/10489/editorial-board).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Software Quality Journal (https://link.springer.com/journal/11219/editorial-board).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (https://bit.ly/3e8zm8c).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence/about/editorial-board).
• Regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software.

Teaching

I have been teaching the following courses:

AY 2024 -- 2025:

• PhD course: Research Methodology.
• Master course: Machine Learning for Model-Driven Engineering (https://univaq.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2024/37943/2017/9/10013?coorte=2023&schemaid=11217).
• Master course: Programming for Data Science (https://univaq.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2024/37891/2022/1/10391?coorte=2024&schemaid=11338).

AY 2023 -- 2024:

• Master course: Machine Learning for Model-Driven Engineering (https://univaq.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2023/37943/2017/9/10013?coorte=2022&schemaid=10910)
• Master course: Programming Methodologies for Data Science (https://univaq.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2023/37891/2022/9999/10391?coorte=2023&schemaid=10933)

AY 2022 -- 2023:

• Master course: Machine Learning for Model-Driven Engineering (https://univaq.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2022/37943/2017/9/10013?coorte=2021&schemaid=10597)

Office hours (for receiving students):

• Monday:  09h15 -- 11h15
• Wednesday: 09h15 -- 11h15

Edificio Alan Turing, Room 211, Via Vetoio snc., 67100 L'Aquila, Italy

Updates:

I have been a reviewer for the following conferences:

2025

• The Special Track on AI for Social Impact (AISI), the Thirty-Nineth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025).
• The Research Papers Track of the 22nd the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/fse-2025/fse-2025-papers-program-committee).
• The Technical Track of the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025) (https://2025.msrconf.org/committee/msr-2025-technical-papers-technical-papers---program-committee).
• The Artifact Evaluation track of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2025/icse-2025-artifact-evaluation-artifact-evaluation).
• The 18th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2025, co-located with ICSE 2025) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/chase-2025/chase-2025-papers-program-committee).
• The Research Papers Track of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/saner-2025/saner-2025-papers-program-committee).

2024

• The Special Track on AI for Social Impact (AISI), the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024) (https://aaai.org/aaai-24-conference/aaai-24-program-committee/).
• The Research Papers Track of the 21st Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/fse-2024/fse-2024-research-papers-program-committee).
• The Research Papers Track of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/ease-2024/ease-2024-papers-program-committee).
• The Research Papers Track of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/saner-2024/saner-2024-papers-program-committee).
• The Research Papers Track of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) (https://conf.researchr.org/track/icsme-2024/icsme-2024-papers).
• The Artifact Evaluation track of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2024/icse-2024-artifact-evaluation-artifact-evaluation).

2023

• The Social Impact Track of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023) (https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-23/aaai-23-program-committee/).
• The Technical Track of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/msr-2023/msr-2023-technical-papers-program-committee).
• The Technical Track of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt 2023 (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/TechDebt-2023/TechDebt-2023-technical-papers-technical-papers).
• The Research Papers Track of the 20th Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023) (https://2023.esec-fse.org/committee/fse-2023-research-papers-program-committee).
• The Poster track of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2023/icse-2023-posters-posters).
• The Artifact Evaluation track of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2023/icse-2023-artifact-evaluation-artifact-evaluation).
• The IEEE ACM 2nd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2023, co-located with ICSE 2023) (https://conf.researchr.org/committee/cain-2023/cain-2023-program-committee).