Scholar
Sebastiano Panichella
Google Scholar ID: HiNuBFgAAAAJ
Senior Computer Science Researcher at the University of Bern
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,882
H-index
41
i10-index
85
Publications
20
Co-authors
30
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Authored or co-authored around 100 papers in international conferences and journals, involving industrial and open-source projects
- Received multiple best paper awards or nominations
- Co-authored the book "Roadmap for DevOps in Cyber-physical Systems: Challenges and Future Directions"
- Contributed two book chapters to "Large Language Models in Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense": "Vulnerabilities Introduced by LLMs through Code Suggestions" and "Enhancing Security Awareness and Education for Large Language Models"
- Selected in 2021 as one of the top-20 most impactful SE researchers worldwide by the JSS journal
- Ranked in the top 2% of researchers in his sub-field in 2022, 2023, and 2025 according to Stanford University’s standardized citation metrics author database
- Serves or has served on program committees of major international conferences (e.g., ICSE, ICST, ISSTA, ASE, FSE, ICSME)
Background
- Passionate Computer Science Researcher at the University of Bern (UniBe)
- Main research goal is to conduct industrial research involving both industrial and academic collaborations to support the Internet of Things (IoT) vision, focusing on AI-enabled smart systems (e.g., drones and cyber-physical systems) in future smart cities
- Deeply interested in interdisciplinary research bridging computer science and life sciences, integrating software engineering, AI/ML, and domain-specific expertise
- Research interests include Software Engineering (SE), Data Science (DS), Life Engineering (LE), and Cloud Computing (CC), specifically DevOps, ML applied to SE, software maintenance and evolution (especially for cloud, mobile, AI-based, and cyber-physical applications), and mobile computing
- Promoting research on summarization techniques for code, changes, and testing
