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Fabio Palomba is an Associate Professor at the Software Engineering (SeSa) Lab of the University of Salerno. He received the European PhD degree in Management & Information Technology in 2017. His PhD Thesis was the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Best PhD Thesis Award.
His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, empirical software engineering, source code quality, and mining software repositories: on these topics, he has co-authored over 200 papers in international conferences and journals. He was the recipient of two ACM/SIGSOFT and one IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Awards at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’13), the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’15), and the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’17), respectively, and Best Paper Awards at the ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’18) and the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’18). In 2019 he was the recipient of an SNSF Ambizione grant, one of the most prestigious individual research grants in Europe, while in 2023 he has awarded with the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Technical Council of Software Engineering Rising Star Award, an early research career recognition assigned for the outstanding contribution to the field of code refactoring and code smells.
He serves and has served as a program committee member of various international conferences (e.g., IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution), and as referee for various international journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Elsevier’s Journal of Systems and Software) in the field of software engineering.
He has been a member of the Steering Committee of ICPC (2021-2024). He has been program co-chair of SANER 2024 and ICPC 2021, industrial track co-chair of SANER 2022, NIER/ERA track co-chair of ASE 2022, SCAM 2022, and MobileSoft 2022, FOSS Award co-chair of MSR 2022, other than program co-chair of MaLTeSQuE 2018 and 2019. In addition, he has been a member of the organizing committee of ICPC 2015 and SANER 2018. Since 2022, he is Editorial Board Member of the Elsevier’s Information and Software Technology Journal (IST). Since 2021, he is Editorial Board Member of the Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), where he already was Review Board Member since 2016, and the e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal (EISEJ). Since 2020 he is Review Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. From 2019 to 2022, he has been Editorial Board Member of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). Since 2019, he is an Editorial Board Member of Elsevier’s Science of Computer Programming (SCICO). For his reviewing activities, he was the recipient of 13 Distinguished/Outstanding Reviewer Awards.
Contributions
2025
ICSE
- Author of From Expectation to Habit: Why Do Software Practitioners Adopt Fairness Toolkits? within the SE in Society (SEIS)-track
- Committee Member in Research Track within the Research Track-track
- Author of Early and Realistic Exploitability Prediction of Just-Disclosed Software Vulnerabilities: How Reliable Can It Be? within the Journal-first Papers-track
- Author of Do Developers Adopt Green Architectural Tactics for ML-Enabled Systems? A Mining Software Repository Study within the SE in Society (SEIS)-track
Mining Software Repositories
International Conference on Program Comprehension
SANER
- Author of Contextual Fairness-Aware Practices in ML: A Cost-Effective Empirical Evaluation. within the Workshops-track
- Committee member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of A First Look at the Lifecycle of DL-Specific Self-Admitted Technical Debt within the Workshops-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of On the Impact of 3D Visualization of Repository Metrics in Software Engineering Education within the Registered Report Track -track
- Author of Data Preparation for Fairness-Performance Trade-Offs: A Practitioner-Friendly Alternative? within the Registered Report Track -track
- Author of Unlocking Code Simplicity: The Role of Prompt Patterns in Managing LLM Code Complexity within the Workshops-track
2024
ESEM
- Author of FRINGE: context-aware FaiRness engineerING in complex software systEms within the ESEM Research Projects-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the ESEM Technical Papers-track
- Author of In Search of Metrics to Guide Developer-Based Refactoring Recommendations. A Registered Report within the ESEM Registered Reports-track
- Author of Continuous Quality Improvement of AI-based Systems: the QualAI Project within the ESEM Research Projects-track
ICSME
SECUTE
ICSE
- Author of Dealing With Cultural Dispersion: a Novel Theoretical Framework for Software Engineering Research and Practice—Artifact Evaluation within the Artifact Evaluation-track
- Author of SERGE – Serious Game for the Education of Risk Management in Software Project Management within the Software Engineering Education and Training-track
- Committee Member in ACM Student Research Competition within the SRC - ACM Student Research Competition-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Demonstrations-track
- Session Chair of Requirements 2 (part of Research Track)
- Author of ReFAIR: Toward a Context-Aware Recommender for Fairness Requirements Engineering within the Research Track-track
- Author of SERGE–Serious Game for the Education of Risk Management in Software Project Management within the Artifact Evaluation-track
- Author of Dealing With Cultural Dispersion: a Novel Theoretical Framework for Software Engineering Research and Practice within the Software Engineering in Society-track
International Conference on Program Comprehension
Mining Software Repositories
- MSR Mining Challenge Co-Chair in Mining Challenge - Program Committee within the Mining Challenge-track
- Session Chair of Mining Challenge (part of Technical Papers)
- Committee Member in Technical Papers - Program Committee within the Technical Papers-track
- MSR Mining Challenge Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of When Code Smells Meet ML: On the Lifecycle of ML-specific Code Smells in ML-enabled Systems within the Registered Reports-track
International Conference on Technical Debt
Forge
2023
Mining Software Repositories
ICSME
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2022
ASE
ICSE
- Author of Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? On the Impact of Cultural and Geographical Dispersion on Community Smells within the SEIS - Software Engineering in Society-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the SRC - ACM Student Research Competition-track
- Author of Within-project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics within the Journal-First Papers-track
Mining Software Repositories
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Technical Papers-track
- Committee Member in Shadow PC Advisors within the Shadow PC-track
- FOSS Award Co-Chair in Program Committee within the FOSS Award-track
- Author of Toward Granular Automatic Unit Test Case Generation within the Registered Reports-track
- FOSS Award Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
MOBILESoft
Q-SE
International Conference on Technical Debt
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2021
ESEC/FSE
ICSE
International Conference on Program Comprehension
Mining Software Repositories
2020
ESEC/FSE
ASE
ICSE
- Author of Refactoring Community Smells in the Wild: The Practitioner’s Field Manual within the Software Engineering in Society-track
- Author of Improving Change Prediction Models with Code Smell-Related Information within the Journal First-track
- Judge in Judge within the ACM Student Research Competition-track
International Conference on Program Comprehension
- Author of Refactoring Android-specific Energy Smells: A Plugin for Android Studio within the Tool Demonstration-track
- Author of OpenSZZ: A Free, Open-Source, Web-Accessible Implementation of the SZZ Algorithm within the Tool Demonstration-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research-track
- Author of Just-In-Time Test Smell Detection and Refactoring: The DARTS Project within the Tool Demonstration-track
- Author of Testing of Mobile Applications in the Wild: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Apps within the Research-track
MOBILESoft
2019
ICSE
- Author of Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells? within the Journal-First Papers-track
- Author of Gender Diversity and Women in Software Teams: How Do They Affect Community Smells? within the Software Engineering in Society-track
- Author of Discovering Community Patterns in Open-Source: A Systematic Approach and Its Evaluation within the Journal-First Papers-track
- Author of Test-Driven Code Review: An Empirical Study within the Technical Track-track