Peer Esteem
Over the past 10 years, I have published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and collaborated with over 40 co-authors and 20 different institutions world-wide.
A bibliometric study (which analyses the research performance of academics in Software Engineering based on their publications number, quality and impact from 2010-2017) ranks myself in the top 20 Rising Stars in Software Engineering Research and in the top 15 Most Impactful Early Stage Software Engineering Researchers; remarkably I am the first and only woman ever ranked in these two categories.
Below are listed my main achievements to date.
Awards
- 2019. ACM Distinguished Paper Award received at the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2019) [C1]
- 2019. Nominated for Outstanding Research Supervision and for Excellent Personal Tutoring at the Student Choice Awards 2019 run by the Student’s Union at UCL.
- 2018. ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award received at the International Conference in Software Engineering (ICSE 2018).
- 2016. HUMIES Award ($1000) received for the paper “Multi-objective Effort Estimation” (ICSE 2016) which shows human-competitive results.
- 2016. Distinguished Reviewer Award received in recognition of the review made for the Elsevier Information and Software Technology Journal.
- 2015. Best Paper Award received for the paper "How to Make Best Use of Cross-Company Data for Web Effort Estimation?”. 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2015, rank A).
- 2015. Best Paper Award received for the paper "Inferring Test Models from Kate’s Bug Reports using Multi-objective Search", 7th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2015).
- 2012. Google Diversity Grant awarded as outstanding young female researcher in Computer Science at the Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2012).
- 2012. SIGAPP Student Travel Award awarded at the 27th Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2012).
- 2010. Best Paper Award received for the paper “How Effective is Tabu Search to Configure Support Vector Regression for Effort Estimation?”, 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE 2010).
Keynotes
- "Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering", BSC SGAI - Real AI conference 5th October 2018, London.
- "Predictive Analytics for Mobile Apps", 1st Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis, A-Mobile 4th September 2018 Montellier, France.
- "Living and Working in a Data-Driven World: Predictive Analytics for Software Engineering, London Hopper Colloquium 18th October 2018 London.
- "Predictive Analytics for Software Testing", 11th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), SBST'18 Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
- "Software Fault Prediction", SQAMIA'14 , Lovran, Croatia, 30th September, 2014.
Invited Talks
- "Analytics for Software Engineering: From gut-feeling to data-driven decision making", Facebook Big Code Summit , 8-9 October 2018
- “Predictive Analytics and Optimisation for Software Engineering”, British Telecom (BT), Adastral Park, Ipswich, 4th July 2018.
- “Software Defect Prediction: Testing-based metrics suite”, FAIR-NET Workshop organised by Brunel University, Goodenough College, London, 18th January 2018.
- “Search Based Software Engineering”, University of Naples “Federico II”, 8th May 2018.
- “Predictive Analytics for Software Engineering and App Store Analysis”, University of Naples “Federico II”, 14th May 2018.
- “Software Analytics & COSMIC related research”, The UK COSMIC Special Interest Group, Sixth Meeting, London, 7th June 2018.
- "Fault Prediction",1st Facebook Testing and Verification Symposium, FaceTAV, Facebook, London, November 2017.
- "Supporting Developers in Making Successful Apps", NII Shonan Seminar on Mobile App Store Analytics, Japan, 18th October, 2015.
- "The Plastic Surgery Hypothesis", 34th CREST Open Workshop: CREST Annual Review, CREST centre at Univeristy College of London, London, 11-12 February, 2014.
- "Optimising Overtime Planning", 25th CREST Open Workshop: Requirements and Test Optimisation, CREST centre at Univeristy College of London, London, 11-12 February, 2013.
- "Search-Based Approaches for Software Development Effort Estimation", 1st Student Conference on Optimisation of Software (StuConOS), Univeristy College of London, London, 10 December, 2012.
- "Genetic Programming for Effort Estimation", 14th CREST Open Workshop: Genetic Programming for Software Engineering, CREST centre at Univeristy College of London, London, 25th July, 2011.
Invited Seminars
- "Shall We Stay or Shall We Go?", The UK COSMIC Special Interest Group, Fifth Meeting , SITA, Hayes, London, 21st April, 2016.
- "CoGEE: A Confidence Guided Estimator for Software Development Effort", University of Hertfordshire CS Research Colloquium , University of Hertfordshire London, 20th April, 2016.
- "Search-Based Software Project Management", International Summer School on Software Engineering, ISSSE'14, University of Salerno, Italy, 30th June, 2014.
- "Search-Based Approaches for Software Development Effort Estimation", Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation Seminar Series, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 7 November 2011
Editor
- Associate Editor for he ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) journal.
- Associate Editor for he Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal.
- Reviewer Board Member for the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) journal.
- Guest Editor for the special issue on "Search-Based Software Engineering" in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation journal.
- Guest Editor for the special issue of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering 2016 in the Information and Software Technology journal
- Associate Editor for the IET Software journal.
- Associate Editor for the IEEE Software blog (Mobile applications and systems)
Steering Committee Chair of International Conferences
Steering Committee Member of International Conferences
- 2010: IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) until 2018
- 2016: Search-Based Software Engineering until 2021.
Program Chair
- Program Chair at ICPC 2019
- GECCO 2018, SBSE - Kyoto
- GECCO 2017, SBSE - Berlin
- SSBSE 2016 - North Carolina
- International Summer School on Software Engineering, ISSSE'14, University of Salerno, Italy, 30th June, 2014.
Track Chair
- Short Papers Track at PROFES 2017 - Austria
- Short Papers and Work in Progress Track at EASE 2016 - Ireland
- Short Papers and Graduate Student Tracks at SSBSE 2015 - North Carolina
Publicity Chair
- 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MobileSoft 2017
- 13th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, PROMISE 2017
Workshop Organiser and Chair
- 2nd International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA 2017, co-located with FSE'17
- CREST Open Workshop on Predictive Modelling for Software Engineering , March 2017 London, UK
- 1st International Workshop on App Market Analytics, WAMA 2017, co-located with FSE'16
- CREST Open Workshop on Predictive Modelling and Software Engineering October 2016, London, UK
Program Committee Member of International Conferences
- 2019: ICSE'19
- 2018: ICSE'18, ASE'18 RE'18 ICSME'18 ESEM'18 GECCO'18 MobileSoft'18 (co-located with ICSE),
- 2017: ESEM’17, ISSTA’17-DT, ICSME’17, GECCO'17, SANER'17, EASE’17, PROFES’17, PROMISE'17, MobileSoft'17 (co-located with ICSE), SBST’17 (co-located with ICSE), SCAM’17, GI’17, EvoSet'17, WETSoM'17
- 2016: FSE-2016-DT, ESEM’16, SANER'16, GECCO’16, SBST’16 (co-located with ICSE), PROMISE'16, CEC’16, ECOOP'16, MobileSoft'16 (co-located with ICSE), WETSoM'16 (co-located with ICSE), SEAA’16, ENASE’16, IEEE ISSC'16
- 2015: GECCO'15, SBSE'15, PROMISE'15, DeMobile'15 (FSE), NasBASE'15, MobileSoft'15 (ICSE), WETSoM'15(ICSE), SCORE-it 2015 (ICSE), IEEE ISSC'15, ICSEA'15
- 2014: GECCO'14, SBSE'14, PROMISE'14, EASE'14, ICWE'14, e-Society'14
- 2013: GECCO'13, SSBSE'13, PROMISE'13, Transfer'13, StuConOS'13, e-Society'13
Reviewer for International Journals
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE): 2014, 2016, 2017
- Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Information Software and Technology (IST):2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Journal of System and Software (JSS): 2014, 2016
- Springer Automated Software Engineering (ASE) : 2012
- Springer Software Quality Journal (SQJ): 2014
- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process: 2015, 2016
- Journal of Information Science (JIS): 2013, 2014
- Journal of Information Processing and Systems (JIPS): 2013
- Advances in Software Engineering: 2013
Reviewer for International Edited Books
Subreviewer for International Conferences
- 2016: FSE'16
- 2014: FSE'14, MSR'14
- 2012: DEXA'12, QUATIC 2012, EASE 2012, ACM SAC 2012( SE Track)
- 2011: ICEIS'11, WEBIST11, ACM SAC'11 ( SE Track),
- 2010: ITAIS'10 , DEXA'10 , ICEIS'10, ACM SAC'10 ( SE Track).
Talks at International Conferences
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