Biography

Romain Robbes is an Associate Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, in the SwSE research group, where he works since April 2017. Before that, he was an Assistant, then Associate Professor at the University of Chile (Computer Science Department), in the PLEIAD research lab. He earned his PhD in 2008 from the University of Lugano, Switzerland and received his Master’s degree from the University of Caen, France. His research interests lie in Empirical Software Engineering, including, but not limited to, Mining Software Repositories. He authored more than 80 papers on these topics, including top software engineering and programming languages venues such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, EMSE, ECOOP, or OOPSLA, received best paper awards at WCRE 2009 and MSR 2011, and was the recipient of a Microsoft SEIF award 2011. He has served in the organizing and program committees of many software engineering conferences (ICSE, MSR, WCRE, ICSME, OOPSLA, ECOOP, ASE, and others) and serves on the Editorial Board of EMSE and the JSS.

Research interests

• Empirical Software Engineering
• Mining Software Repositories
• Software Maintenance
• Integrated Development Environments

Funding

• FONDECYT Project #1151195 “Challenges in mining developer interaction data in the small and in the large” (2015–2019)
• DAAD Scholarship to visit the University of Hamburg (Sep.–Dec. 2014)
• LACCIR Project RFP1212LAC004 “Studies and support of work fragmentation for software developers in small and medium size companies” (2013–2014)
• FONDECYT Project #11110463 “Micromégas: Filling the gaps in Mining Software Repositories with developer and ecosystem-level mining” (2012–2014)
• Microsoft SEIF Award “Building and mining a repository of developer interactions for Visual Studio” (2011)
• Member of PLOMO, associated team between the PLEIAD lab, and the INRIA team RMoD

Awards

• Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICSE 2017
• Best paper award, MSR 2011: “How developers use the dynamic features of programming languages: the case of smalltalk”
• Thesis nominated for GI-Dissertationspreis 2010: “Of Change and Software”
• Best paper award, WCRE 2009: “Benchmarking Lightweight Techniques to Link E-Mails and Source Code”
• Finalist, Microsoft Faculty Fellowships, 2012

Contact

• Address:

  Prof. Dr. Romain Robbes 
  DCC, University of Chile 
  Beaucheff 851, Off. 304
  837-0459 Santiago 
  Chile
  

• Email: <rrobbes_at_dcc_dot_uchile_dot_cl>

• Phone: +56 2 978 4974

• Fax: +56 2 689 55 31