Summary
Filippo Lanubile is a seasoned academic and technology leader who heads the Department of Informatics at the University of Bari and directs a long-standing research group on collaborative software development. With a career spanning academia and industry since the late 1980s, he combines deep expertise in human-centered and global software engineering with practical leadership as CEO and co-founder of PeoplewareAI. A Full Professor and former research associate at the University of Maryland, he has chaired major ACM/IEEE conferences and serves on editorial and advisory boards shaping empirical software engineering. His work has been recognized by awards from NASA, IBM and Microsoft Research, reflecting impact across research and applied projects. He is known for bridging rigorous empirical methods with AI/ML-aware software practices and for translating collaborative research into real-world tools and infrastructure. Based in Bari, Italy, he uniquely blends departmental leadership, entrepreneurial drive, and decades of mentoring the next generation of software engineers.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Bari