Received Italian habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor for Computer Science (01/B1: Informatica, II fascia) and Computer Engineering (09/H1: Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni, II fascia). Member of the editorial boards for several journals including Springer Applied Intelligence, Springer Software Quality Journal, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Elsevier Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence. Regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnic University of Bari and the University of L’Aquila. Research focuses on: 1. Mining Software Repositories, especially from platforms like GitHub or Maven; 2. Developing various recommender systems providing recommendations such as code examples, topics, third-party components; 3. Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques in Software Engineering and other fields.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Jena, Germany.
Background
Associate Professor at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. Research interests include Recommender Systems, Mining Software Repositories, and Machine Learning. Recently, working to develop recommender systems for Software Engineering, mining open source code repositories to support software programmers.
Miscellany
Teaching courses include Research Methodology for PhD students, Machine Learning for Model-Driven Engineering, and Programming for Data Science at the Master level.