Member of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology): WG4 on "Optimisation under uncertainty" Member of the EU Sparc Robotics group - https://sparc-robotics-portal.eu Member of the ZHAW Digital Futures Lab - https://www.zhaw.ch/en/focus-topics/zhaw-digital/digital-futures-lab/ (2023 - 2024) Elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior Member : Only 10% of IEEE’s more than 450,000 members hold this grade. 2024
Technical (i.e., main PI) Coordinator of EU and National grants: Main PI of the "SNSF" project "SwarmOps: Human-sensing based MLOps for Collaborative Cyber-physical systems" Main PI of the "Horizon EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded Doctoral Networks" project "InnoGuard: Hybrid and Generative Intelligence for Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems" Main PI of the "Hasler Foundation" project "Bridging the Reality Gap in Testing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"Technical coordinator of the H2020 project "COSMOS: DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems" Main PI of the Innosuisse project "ARIES: Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms"
Reviewer, opponent, or examinator of Ph.D. Dissertations: External examinator of Ph.D. Dissertation by Adriano Torres at at University of Adelaide (2024). External Review of Ph.D. research proposal by Mme Zid at at Polytechnique Montréal (August 2022). Reviewer/opponent of a Ph.D. Dissertation of Nitish Shriniwas at University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science (March 2022). Reviewer/opponent of a Ph.D. Dissertation at University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science (2019/2020) Keynote Speaker of International Conferences and co-located events: - Keynote speaker at AIST (co-located to ICST 2023) - slides - Keynote speaker at VST 2018 (co-located to SANER 2018) - slides - Keynote speaker the Workshop on Dependable DevOps co-located with the SafeComp conference, 2021. Editor or Co-editor of special Issues at International Journals: - Editor of Software Track special Issue at Journal of Science of Computer Programming on "SBFT’23: Search-Based and Fuzz Testing Tools." - link - Editor of Software Track special Issue at Journal of Science of Computer Programming on "SBST’22: Search-Based Software Engineering – Tools. 2022" - link - Editor of Software Track special Issue at Journal of Science of Computer Programming on "NLP-based software engineering. 2022" link - Editor of a the special Issue at EMSE entitled "Software Engineering for Mobile Applications. 2018" - Editor of a the special Issue at IST entitled "User Feedback and Software Quality in the Mobile Domain. 2018" Organising Summer Schools workshops: 1st Summer School on Software Evolution: From Monolithic to Cloud-Native. Program available at https://research.tuni.fi/clowee/news/inforte-cloud/ Organising research workshops: Co-organizer of the CHOOSE-forum 2017 (http://www.choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2017/index.html) Lecturer in International Summer Schools: Lecturer at the Summer School on "Search- and Machine Learning Software Engineering" - link - slides General Chair of International Conferences: - International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation - ICST 2025 Chair of International Workshops: - International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing (AIST) - Collocated with ICST 2024 - Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering Workshop (NLBSE) - Collocated with ICSE 2022, ICSE 2023, ICSE 2024 - Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) - Collocated with ICSE 2022, ICSE 2023 - Organizer and chair of the The 1st International Workshop on Advanced DevOps, Analysis Tools and Reengineering Practices for AI-based, Cyber-physical, and Distributed Systems (ADEVOPS4IoTSYS) co-located with the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER’22) - Organizer and chair of the Workshop on DevOps Testing for Cyber-Physical Systems - Collocated with ICST 2021 - SBST/SBFT Tool competition chair - Collocated with ICSE 2020, 2021, 2024 (Tool chair of UAV and Python competitions) - First International Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience - CNAX 2018 Co-located with UCC 2018 and BDCAT 2018 conferences Zurich, Switzerland. Editorial Board Member of International Journals: Journal of Software: evolution and process Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Review Board Member of International Journals: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) ACM TOSEM Board of Distinguished Reviewers Organising committee member of International Conferences and Workshops: Program Committee member of the International Conference on Software Engineering - (ICSE 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018) Program Committee member of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021) Reviewer of Research Track, Industrial Track and Expert Review Panel Member of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2022, 2021, 2017). Program Committee member of the the IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST 2024, 2022, 2020) Program Committee member of International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017). Program Committee member of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016) Program Committee member of the International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (2021) Program Committee member of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2023, 2022, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014). Program Committee member of the International Conferance on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017) Program Committee member of workshop on Quality Aspects in Digital Twins and Cyber-physical Systems (QUATIC 2022). Program Committee member of 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning and Software Engineering in Symbiosis. Program Committee member of ESEC/FSE 2018 - Formal Demonstration Track. Program Committee member of SBST 2018 (11th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing), Gothenburg, Sweden. Program Committee member of the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2017, 2016, 2015). Program Committee member of the 10th Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution" (SATToSE 2017), Madrid, Spain. Program Committee member of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2023, 2021, 2020) Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques for Software Quality Evolution (2020) Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST 2020, 2019, 2018) Program Committee member of the of 3rd International Workshop on App Market Analytics (WAMA 2019) Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering - WAISE (2020) Program Committee member of the Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST 2022). Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE) Program Committee member of the International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology.
Reviewer for the following International Journals: - Scientific Reports - Nature - Empirical Software Engineering - Transactions on Software Engineering - Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology - Journal of Systems and Software - Information and Software Technology - Journal of Software: Evolution and Process - Science of Computer Programming - Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Communications of the ACM - Software Testing, Verification and Reliability - Transactions on Services Computing - Transactions on Mobile Computing - Software: Practice and Experience journal - Communications of the ACM - etc.
Web Chair of International Conferences: 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2013), San Francisco, California, USA.
Internship in Canada: From 27 May 2013 to 27 July 2013 he has been a visiting researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Supervisor: Prof. Giuliano Antoniol. External Reviewer of Grant Applications: External Reviewer of PRIN (National Project) and member of the CNVR (National Committee for the Evaluation of Research) for the Ministry for University and Research (MUR) in Italy, aimed at financing public research projects External Reviewer of projects submitted in the Quebec-Flanders bilateral research cooperation program. External Reviewer of projects submitted in the Mitacs Accelerate research program. Research Meetings: Led a Shonnan meeting with the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, on the topic: "DevOps for Cyber-physical Systems" - See the visual summary of the meeting: image - 2023 .