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


Invited Talks


Invited Seminars


Editor


Steering Committee Chair of International Conferences

  • 2018: Search-Based Software Engineering until 2021.

  • Steering Committee Member of International Conferences


    Program Chair


    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


    Program Committee Member of International Conferences


    Reviewer for International Journals


    Reviewer for International Edited Books

  • Software Project Management in a Changing World, Günther Ruhe and Claes Wholin (Editors), Springer
  • Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Algorithms in Software Engineering: Applications and Techniques , Monica Chis (Editor) GI Global.

  • Subreviewer for International Conferences


    Talks at International Conferences

  • “Multi-objective effort estimation” , 36th International Conference on Software Engineering , (ICSE 2016), May 2016.
  • "Feature Lifecycles as They Spread, Migrate, Remain and Die in App Stores", International Conference on Requirements Engineering, RE’2015, August 2015
  • "The Plastic Surgery Hypothesis", 22nd ACM SIGFOST International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering Hong Kong, November 16-21 2014
  • "Less is More: Temporal Fault Predictive Performance Over Multiple Hadoop Releases", 5th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE2014) Fortaleza, Brazil 2014
  • "Not Going to Take this Anymore: Multi-Objective Overtime Planning for Software Engineering Projects", 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2013)San Francisco, May 18-26 2013
  • "Functional vs. Design Measures for Model-Driven Web Applications: A Case Study in the Context of Web Effort Estimation", 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM 2012), Zurich, 3 June, 2012.
  • "A Further Analysis on the Use of Genetic Algorithm to Configure Support Vector Machines for Inter-Release Fault Prediction" , 27th Symposium On Applied Computing, Riva del Garda, Italy, March, 26y31, 2012
  • "Single and Multi Objective Genetic Programming for Software Development Effort Estimation" , 27th Symposium On Applied Computing, Riva del Garda, Italy, March, 26-31, 2012
  • "Towards Improving Usability of Authentication Systems Using Smartphones for Logical and Physical Resource Access in a Single Sign-On Environment", 8th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, Rome, Italy, October, 7-8, 2011
  • "A Matching-Algorithm based on the Cloud and Positioning Systems to Improve Carpooling", 17th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Florence, Italy, August 18-20, 2011.
  • "Search-Based Approaches for Software Development Effort Estimation" 12th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (Doctoral Symposium), Torre Canne (BR), Italy, June 20, 2011
  • "A Crawljax Based Approach to Exploit Traditional Accessibility Evaluation Tools for AJAX Applications", ITAIS 2010, Naples, Italy, October, 8-9, 2010
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  • "How Effective is Tabu Search to Configure Support Vector Regression for Effort Estimation?", PROMISE 2010, Timisoara, Romania, September, 12-13, 2010
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  • "Genetic Programming for Effort Estimation: an Analysis of the Impact of Different Fitness Functions",SSBSE 2010, Benevento, Italy, September, 7-9, 2010
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  • "Using search-based techniques for software development effort estimation", 7th International Summer School on Software Engineering, DMI - University of Salerno, Italy, July, 6-9, 2010
  • Media Coverage

  • Featured in the Italian newspaper “Il Mattino” and interviewed at the radio program “Miracolo Italiano” by RAI Radio 2.