Name:Melina Vidoni

Bio:

Dr Vidoni is an academic (Lecturer, eq. to Assistant Professor) at the Australian National University in the School of Computing. She has ongoing domestic and international collaborations, the latter with Canada and Germany. Dr Vidoni’s main research interests are mining software repositories, technical debt and software development; empirical software engineering when applied to data science and scientific software.

She graduated from Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (UTN) as an Information Systems Engineer. Years later, she received her PhD on the same institution, with the maximum qualification. She funded R-Ladies Santa Fe in 2018, and in 2019 moved to Australia to further her research career. Since 2018, she is also Associate Editor for rOpenSci, and Editorial Board member of Information and Software Technology.

Country:Australia

Affiliation:Australian National University

Research interests:Empirical Software Engineering, Technical Debt, R Programming, MSR, Data Science