Over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals and conferences in software engineering and evolutionary computation
Most Influential Paper Award at SANER (2024)
Several Best Paper Awards at ICPC, SBFT, and SSBSE
Involved in multiple European Commission H2020 projects such as STAMP and COSMOS
Active member of program committees for prestigious international conferences like ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, ISSTA, GECCO, and ICST, and reviewer for leading journals including TSE, TOSEM, TEVC, EMSE, and STVR
Research Experience
Scientific Developer, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Security & Trust, January 2014 – December 2014, Trento, Italy
Post-doc, Delft University of Technology, January 2015 – September 2016, Delft, The Netherlands
Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) - University of Luxembourg, October 2016 – February 2018, Luxembourg
Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) - University of Luxembourg, February 2018 – December 2020, Luxembourg
Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, March 2018 – December 2022, Delft, The Netherlands
Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, January 2023 – Present, Delft, The Netherlands
Education
PhD in Software Engineering, 2014, University of Salerno
Background
I am an Associate Professor in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. I lead the Computation Intelligence for Software Engineering Lab (CISELab), where my research focuses on advancing the fields of software testing, search-based software engineering, software testing for AI, and empirical software engineering.
Miscellany
Research interests include: Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering, Test Case Generation and Fuzzing, Software Testing for AI, Validation of Generative AI, Security Testing, Regression Testing, Empirical Software Engineering, and Evolutionary Computation.