Scholar
Andy Zaidman
Google Scholar ID: CDTfcG4AAAAJ
Professor of Software Engineering, Delft University of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,060
H-index
46
i10-index
99
Publications
20
Co-authors
101
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded NWO Vidi grant (€800K) in 2013 for the TestRoots research proposal
- Awarded NWO Vici grant (€1.5M, 13% acceptance rate) in 2019 for the TestShift proposal
- Paper 'Pinpointing the Learning Obstacles of an Interactive Theorem Prover' received Distinguished Paper Award at ICPC 2025
- Paper 'How Developers Engage with Static Analysis Tools in Different Contexts' received Most Influential 5-Years Journal First Paper Award at ICST 2025
- Received Distinguished Reviewer Award at ICSME 2024
- Paper 'Evaluating the Lifespan of Code Smells using Software Repository Mining' received Most Influential Paper Award at SANER 2022
- PhD student Moritz Beller won VERSEN PhD Award 2019 and IPA Best Dissertation Award, graduated cum laude in 2018
- PhD student Pouria Derakhshanfar won VERSEN PhD Award 2021
- Elected 'Best CS Teacher' 2017 at TU Delft’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
- Gave TEDx talk 'Making Testing Fun' at TEDxDelft in February 2015
- Joined the editorial board of Empirical Software Engineering journal in 2019
Research Experience
- Joined Delft University of Technology as a post-doc in October 2006, working with Prof. Dr. Arie van Deursen
- Later became assistant/associate professor in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at TU Delft
- Part-time lecturer at the University of Antwerp during the 2007–2008 academic year
- Taught the 'System Reengineering' course at the University of Leicester (UK) from 2008 to 2010
- Appointed full professor in software quality in July 2019
Background
- Full professor in software engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Research interests in software evolution and software testing
- Research goal is to make it easier for software engineers to create and maintain large-scale test suites manually or semi-automatically in a sustainable way
- Head of the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft, which brings together around 200 researchers, educators, and support staff working on the design, engineering, and analysis of complex, distributed, and data-intensive software systems
- Teaches basic programming, software testing, and software reengineering
