Name:Thomas Zimmermann

Bio:

Thomas Zimmermann is a Chancellor’s Professor and Bren Chair at the University of California, Irvine. He works on cutting-edge research and innovation in software engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and digital games. He has over 15 years of experience in the field, with more than 100 publications that have been cited over 30,000 times. His research mission is to empower software developers and organizations to build better software and services with AI. He is best known for his pioneering work on systematic mining of software repositories and his empirical studies of software development in industry. He has contributed to several Microsoft products and tools, such as Visual Studio, GitHub, and Xbox. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and recipient of the IEEE TCSE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement award.

He received his PhD in 2008 from Saarland University in Germany. From 2007 to 2008 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary and from 2008 to 2024 he worked at Microsoft Research as a Sr. Principal Researcher.

Country:United States

Affiliation:University of California, Irvine

Research interests:Empirical Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories, Software Analytics, Data Science