Tom Zimmermann
Chancellor S Professor And Bren Chair at UC Irvine
Newport Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Zimmermann is a distinguished researcher and engineering leader focused on applying data science, machine learning, and empirical software engineering to improve how developers and organizations build software. With over 15 years in the field, 100+ publications cited more than 30,000 times, and honors including ACM and IEEE Fellowships plus the IEEE CS McCluskey Award, he blends deep academic rigor with practical product impact. His pioneering work on mining software repositories has influenced tools and teams at Microsoft—contributing to Visual Studio, GitHub, and Xbox—and now shapes research and education as Chancellor’s Professor and Bren Chair at UC Irvine. Tom is driven by a mission to embed AI into developer workflows, and his career uniquely bridges large-scale industry R&D and reproducible empirical studies that surface real-world developer behavior.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesDiploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Universität Passau
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Github Skills (15)
science9
machine-learning8
biometrics8
journal8
python8
reproducible-science7
data-science7
data-analysis7
reproducible-research7
open-science7
macos3
windows3
analytics2
game-theory2
biology2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
msrconf/msrconf
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 4 months
msrconf/msrconf.github.io
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:68 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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