Rocco Oliveto

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I am Full Professor at the University of Molise (Italy). I am the Rector's Delegate for Placement, Internship and Technology Transfer. Since October 2020 I am the Deputy Director of the Department of Biosciences and Territory. From 2014 to 2020 I was Chair of the board of the Computer Science study program. I am the founder (and Director until 2019) of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab (STAKE) Lab of the University of Molise.

I received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2008. I am co-author of over 150 papers on topics related to software maintenance and evolution, empirical software engineering, and mining software repositories. In 2021 I was ranked fourth in the world in a bibliometric study conducted over an eight-year period (2013-2020), with the aim of identifying, worldwide, the most active researchers in the field of software engineering. I have received several awards for my research activity, including 6 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and 3 Most Influential Paper Award.

My activities embrace various international research communities in the software engineering field. I participated in the organization and was a member of the program committee of several international conferences in the field of software engineering. I was General Chair of SANER 2018 and Program co-chair of ICPC 2015, TEFSE 2015 and 2009, SCAM 2014, and WCRE 2013 and 2012. I was also a keynote speaker at MUD 2012.

Since 2018 I am CEO of Datasound srl, a spin-off of the University of Molise that was created to conceive, design and develop innovative recommendation systems to be applied in different contexts.