ZEST Alumni

Senior Researchers

• Dr. Gül Çalikli (postdoc @ ZEST), now Lecturer at University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Dr. Fabio Palomba (postdoc @ ZEST), now Associate Professor at University of Salerno, Italy
• Dr. Linda Di Geronimo (postdoc @ ZEST), now Cooperation Manager at Huawei, Switzerland

Ph.D. graduates

• Dr. Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves
  dissertation: Human-Centric Code Review: Exploring Developers' Performance, Experience, and Productivity (Jan 10, 2025)
  now: Postdoctoral Researcher, INESC TEC, Portugal
• Dr. Enrico Fregnan
  dissertation: Assessing Review Outcomes and Cognitive Factors to Improve Code Review (Mar 23, 2023)
  now: Research Scientist, ABB, Switzerland
• Dr. Larissa Barbosa
  dissertation: Secure Code Review: Supporting Developers in Secure Code Review (Dec 2, 2022)
  now: Software Engineer, Google, Switzerland
• Dr. Vladimir Kovalenko
  dissertation: Data-Driven Software Engineering (Mar 24, 2021)
  now: Head of Research Lab at JetBrains Research, The Netherlands
• Dr. Davide Spadini
  dissertation: Supporting Quality In Test Code For Higher Quality Software Systems (Mar 18, 2021)
  now: Software Engineer at Meta (Facebook), UK
• Dr. Luca Pascarella
  dissertation: Augmented fine-grained defect prediction for code review (Sep 2, 2020)
  now: Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Dr. Anand Ashok Sawant
  dissertation: The impact of API evolution (Oct 10, 2019)
  now: Member Of Technical Staff, Endor Labs, USA