Awards / Best Paper Nominations

Research achievements of Sebastiano Panichella according to the[Results reported by the JSS journal]:
- Dr. Panichella was selected in 2019 as one of the top-20 (second in Switzerland) Most Active Early Stage Researchers Worldwide (results reported by the JSS journal) in SE.
- Dr. Panichella was selected In 2021 as one of the top-20 Most impactful SE researchers Worldwide (results reported by the JSS journal).
- According to (the September 2022 data-update from) the article "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field" (in the report), a ranking (or selection) of researchers is made (by the Stanford University) and Dr. Panichella appears in the percentile rank of the top 2% or above in the sub-field. Similarly, Dr. Panichella appears in the percentile rank of the top 2% or above in the sub-field for 2023.

Awards of Advised PhD Students:
[1] Best PhD Thesis Award:  Congratulations to Pooja Rani on receiving an award at the University of Bern for her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Assessing Comment Quality in Object-Oriented Languages" (image)

Awards as Reviewer:
[3] Distinguished Reviewer  Award MSR 2022 - link
[2] Distinguished Reviewer  Award SANER 2018
[1] Distinguished Reviewer  Award SATToSE 2017

Awards/Best Paper Nominations:

[12]     Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella, Gordon Fraser, Anand Ashok Sawant and Vincent Hellendoorn    Revisiting Test Smells in Automatically Generated Tests: Limitations, Pitfalls, and Opportunities.   International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020)..  Invited for journal extension  

[11]     Muhammad Ilyas Azeem, Sebastiano Panichella, Andrea Di Sorbo, Alexander Serebrenik, and Qing Wang.   Action-based Recommendation in Pull-request Development   International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP2020)..  Invited for journal extension  

[10]     G. Grano, A. Ciurumelea, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, H. Gall.   Exploring the Integration of User Feedback in Automated Testing of Android Applications   Proceedings of the {IEEE} 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering.  Invited for journal extension  

[9]     C. Vassallo, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, S. Proksch, A. Zaidman and H. Gall.:   Context is King: The Developer Perspective on the Usage of Static Analysis Tools   Proceedings of the {IEEE} 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering.  Invited for journal extension  

[8]    G. Grano, T. Titov, S. Panichella, H. Gall:  How High Will It Be? Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Branch Coverage in Automated Testing. MaLTeSQuE (co-located with SANER 2018).  Invited for journal extension  

[7] Carol Alexandru,Sebastiano Panichella and Harald GallReducing Redundancies in Multi-Revision Code Analysis. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017). Klagenfurt, Austria.    Invited for journal extension 

[6] Sebastiano Panichella, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora, Giulio Antoniol: How Developers' Collaborations Identified from Different Sources Tell us About Code Changes. The 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, Canada, 28 September - 3 October 2014.  Nominated for best paper award   

 [5]  Sebastiano Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gerardo Canfora: How the Evolution of Emerging Collaborations Relates to Code Changes: An Empirical Study. The 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension, Hyderabad, India, 2-3 June 2014. DOI:10.1145/2597008.2597145 Invited for journal extension   

 [4] Gabriele Bavota, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Sebastiano Panichella: The Evolution of Project Inter-Dependencies in a Software Ecosystem: the Case of Apache. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 22 - 28 September 2013. DOI:10.1109/ICSM.2013.39 Nominated for best paper award  

 [3] Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella e Sebastiano Panichella: Multi-Objective Cross-Project Defect Prediction. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2013), Luxembourg, Belgium, 18-22 March 2013. DOI:10.1109/ICST.2013.38 Invited for journal extension   

 [2] Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella: Using IR methods for labeling source code artifacts: Is it worthwhile? In Proceedings of; IEEE 20th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2012), pages 193-202, Passau, Germany, June 11-13, 2012. 2012, ISBN 978-1-4673-1216-5. DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2012.6240488 Invited for journal extension     

 [1] Andrea De Lucia, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Annibale Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella: Improving IR-based Traceability Recovery Using Smoothing Filters. In Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011), pages 21-30. Kingston, ON, Canada, June 22-24, 2011. IEEE Computer Society 2011, ISBN 978-1-61284-308-7. DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2011.34 Best paper award  

Best Tool Awards & Nominations:

[4]  Christian Birchler, Nicolas Ganz, Sajad Khatiri, Alessio Gambi and Sebastiano Panichella: Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software with SDC-Scissor.    the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering.   Invited to Journal Extension
[3]  Rafael Kallis, Andrea Di Sorbo, Gerardo Canfora and Sebastiano Panichella: Ticket Tagger: Machine Learning Driven Issue Classification.  35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2019). RANK: A.  Invited to Journal Extension
[2]  L. Pelloni, G. Grano, A. Ciurumelea, S. Panichella, F. Palomba, H. Gall.: BECLoMA: Augmenting Stack Traces with User Review Information. Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2018) RANK: B.  Best tool award
[1] Carmine Vassallo, Sebastiano Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gerardo Canfora:CODES: mining sourCe cOde Descriptions from developErs diScussions. The 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension, Hyderabad, India, 2-3 June 2014. DOI:10.1145/2597008.2597799 Best tool award