Juan Alcocer
Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Cartago Province, Chile
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Top SchoolJuan Alcocer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with a decade of experience bridging academic research and practical software engineering. He specializes in empirical software engineering, automated test generation, search-based techniques, mining software repositories, and software visualization, with publications in ICSE, TSE, EMSE and IST. Juan has led a research lab, supervised MSc and PhD students who publish internationally, and previously founded Semantics S.R.L. to translate state-of-the-art research into real-world tools for testing and visualization. His recent work explores AI-driven approaches to enhance program analysis and test generation, blending empirical studies with tool development. Comfortable in both industry and academia, he combines hands-on implementations (from genetic algorithms to advanced editors) with rigorous empirical evaluation.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Universidad de ChileBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Universidad Mayor de San Simón
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
pharo8
evolution7
smalltalk7
matrix5
spy4
appengine2
python2
google2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jpsandoval/jpsandoval.github.io
Aug 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:189 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
jpsandoval/ruby-examples
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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