Biography:Massimiliano Di Penta

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Massimiliano Di Penta
Alma materUniversity of Sannio
Scientific career
FieldsSoftware engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Sannio

Massimiliano Di Penta is an Italian computer scientist and full professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio.[1] His research is in software engineering, including software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, and software testing.[2] He is one of the editors of the Evolution and Process, published by Wiley.[3][4]

Education

Di Penta received a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Sannio in 1999 and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the same university in 2003.[1][5]

Career

Di Penta is a full professor at the University of Sannio. He previously served at the same university as an assistant professor from 2004 to 2011 and as an associate professor from 2011 to 2019.[1]

He has held editorial and professional-service roles in software engineering. He is one of the editors of the Evolution and Process.[3][4] He has served as vice chair of the ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee.[6]

Di Penta served as program chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering in 2023.[7] He was also program co-chair of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering in 2021,[8] and program co-chair of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering in 2017.[9]

Research

Di Penta's research is in the area of software engineering. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, and software testing.[2][5]

When asked to name one of his research pieces that should be read by software engineers, he nominated a 2020 paper entitled On the relationship between refactoring actions and bugs: A differentiated replication,[10] because of the value of looking at data from different angles.[5]

He is listed as an author of more than 350 publications in software engineering and related fields by Google Scholar and DBLP. As of May 2026 he has an h-index of 96.[11][12]

Recognition

A bibliometric assessment published in the Journal of Systems and Software identified Di Penta as the second-most active of experienced researchers in software engineering, for the period 2010–2017, with 81 papers in scope. The same assessment ranked Di Penta in seventh place in terms of the most active experienced software engineering researchers publishing in top-quality journals.[13][14]

In 2019, he received the Most Influential Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering.[14]

In 2024, Di Penta received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award for service to the software engineering community, including service as program co-chair for major software engineering conferences.[15][5]

He has also been a recipient or co-recipient of ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards.[16]

Selected professional service

  • Editor, Evolution and Process[3][4]
  • Vice chair, ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee[6]
  • Program chair, International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023[7]
  • Program co-chair, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021[8]
  • Program co-chair, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2017[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Massimiliano Di Penta". University of Sannio. https://www.unisannio.it/it/user/484/curriculum. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Massimiliano Di Penta - ICSE 2023". ICSE 2023. https://conf.researchr.org/profile/icse-2023/massimilianodipenta. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Journal of Software: Evolution and Process". Wiley Online Library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20477481. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Editorial Board - Journal of Software: Evolution and Process". Wiley Online Library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20477481/homepage/editorialboard.html. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Soldani, Jacopo (17 July 2024). "An Interview with Massimiliano Di Penta - 2024 SIGSOFT Awardee". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 49 (3): 17–18. doi:10.1145/3672089.3672093. ISSN 0163-5948. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3672089.3672093. Retrieved 19 May 2026. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "SIGSOFT Executive Committee". ACM SIGSOFT. https://www2.sigsoft.org/execcontact/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Organising Committee - ICSE 2023". ICSE 2023. https://conf.researchr.org/committee/icse-2023/icse-2023-organising-committee. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Organizing Committee - ESEC/FSE 2021". ESEC/FSE 2021. https://2021.esec-fse.org/committee/fse-2021-organizing-committee. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "ASE 2017 - Research Papers". ASE 2017. https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/conferences/ASE/ase2017/calls.html. 
  10. ↑ Di Penta, Massimiliano; Bavota, Gabriele; Zampetti, Fiorella (8 November 2020). "On the relationship between refactoring actions and bugs: a differentiated replication". ACM. pp. 556–567. doi:10.1145/3368089.3409695. ISBN 978-1-4503-7043-1. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3368089.3409695. Retrieved 19 May 2026. 
  11. ↑ "Massimiliano Di Penta publications indexed by Google Scholar". Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j6ucyOAAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  12. ↑ "Massimiliano Di Penta". DBLP Bibliography Server. https://dblp.org/pid/d/MassimilianoDiPenta.html. 
  13. ↑ Karanatsiou, Dimitra; Li, Yihao; Arvanitou, Elvira-Maria; Misirlis, Nikolaos; Wong, W. Eric (2019). "A bibliometric assessment of software engineering scholars and institutions (2010–2017)". Journal of Systems and Software 147: 246–261. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.10.029. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Unisannio, ingegneria del software: riconoscimenti internazionali per il prof. Di Penta". NTR24. 7 March 2019. https://www.ntr24.tv/2019/03/07/unisannio-ingegneria-del-software-riconoscimenti-internazionali-per-il-prof-di-penta/. 
  15. ↑ "Distinguished Service Award". ACM SIGSOFT. https://www2.sigsoft.org/awards/distinguishedservice/. 
  16. ↑ "ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award". ACM SIGSOFT. https://www.sigsoft.org/awards/distinguishedPaperAward.html. 



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