I was born in Campobasso (Italy) on April 24th, 1990. I received (cum laude) the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Molise (Italy) in 2013, advised by Prof. Rocco Oliveto.

Afterwards, I moved to the University of Salerno (Italy), where i 2015 I received my Master's Degree (cum laude) in Computer Science, advised by  Prof. Andrea De Lucia, defending a thesis on Search Based Software Testing.

Right after my M.Sc. I worked for 1 year as IT Analyst and Developer at Cedacri S.p.A.

In November 2016 i joined the Student at the Software Evolution and Architecture Lab ( s.e.a.l.) led by Harald Gall, where I started officially my PhD in February 2017. I spent the summer of 2020 as a Software Engineer Intern at JetBrains, Munich.

My research interests include Search Based Software Engineering, Software maintenance and evolution and Empirical Software Engineering.

For anything further, have a look at my private website.

See Publications

If you are a Bachelor/Master student looking for a thesis topic and you are interested in topics like Automated Testing or Genetic Algorithms, please drop me a line.

• Lucas Pelloni (Bachelor Thesis) - GUI usability and testing of mobile applications
• Cristian De Iaco (Bachelor Thesis) - Developer's Perception of Unit Test Quality: An Empirical Investigation on Unit Test Quality from a Developer's Point of View
• Christian Birchler (Bachelor Thesis) - Estimation of Test Flakiness By Static and Dynamic Call-Graph Analysis - with Christoph Laaber

• Pizza versus Pinsa: On the Perception and Measurability of Unit Test Code Quality accepted at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)