Ivano Malavolta is assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His research focuses on data-driven software engineering, with a special emphasis on software architecture, mobile software development, robotics software. He applies empirical methods to assess practices and trends in the field of software engineering. He authored several scientific articles in international journals and peer- reviewed international conferences proceedings. He is program committee member and reviewer of international conferences and journals in the software engineering field. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of L’Aquila in 2012. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, VERSEN, Amsterdam Young Academy, and Amsterdam Data Science.