Named Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babeş-Bolyai University in 2021
Joint research with students has earned six Best/Distinguished Paper Awards and seven Most Influential Paper Awards at software engineering conferences
General Chair and Program Co-Chair for ICSME (2011, 2010), and Program Co-Chair for ICPC'09, VISSOFT'13, SANER'17
Served on editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2014–2018), Empirical Software Engineering Journal (2010–2021), and Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (2010–2024)
Member of Steering Committees for IEEE ICSME and IEEE VISSOFT