Alberto Bacchelli
Full Professor at University of Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlberto Bacchelli is a Full Professor of Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Zurich with over a decade of academic and industry experience translating software development data into actionable, mathematically grounded tools and practices. He leads the ZEST group, advancing measurement-driven approaches that replace intuition and manual processes with models that leverage rich textual and process artifacts. His career spans roles from PhD research on mining development communications to internships at Microsoft and practical testing engineering, giving him a rare blend of rigorous empirical methods and hands-on systems experience. Alberto’s work is notable for connecting qualitative insights from code reviews and emails with quantitative models that directly inform tooling and process improvement.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaErasmus, Computer Science, Erasmus, Computer Science at Université libre de BruxellesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Engineering at USI Università della Svizzera italianaLiceo Righi
French, English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
software-design10
ranking8
python8
science7
react7
git6
smalltalk6
gitpython6
computer-science6
parsing6
petitparser6
data-science4
analytics1
testing1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sback/CSrankings
Jan 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
sback/software-testing
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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