Biography

Romain Robbes is assistant professor at the University of Chile, in the PLEIAD research lab, since January 2010. He earned his PhD in 2008 from the University of Lugano, Switzerland and received his Master’s degree from the University of Caen, France. His research interests lie in Empirical Software Engineering and Mining Software Repositories. He authored more than 30 papers on these topics at top software engineering venues (ICSE, ASE, EMSE), and received best paper awards at WCRE 2009 and MSR 2011. He was program co-chair of IWPSE-EVOL 2011, and the recipient of a Microsoft SEIF award 2011.

Research interests

• Empirical Software Engineering
• Mining Software Repositories
• Software Maintenance
• Integrated Development Environments

Funding

• FONDECYT Project #11110463 “Micromégas: Filling the gaps in Mining Software Repositories with developer and ecosystem-level mining”
• Microsoft SEIF Award “Building and mining a repository of developer interactions for Visual Studio”
• Member of PLOMO, associated team between the PLEIAD lab, and the INRIA team RMoD

Awards

• Best paper award, MSR 2011: “How developers use the dynamic features of programming languages: the case of smalltalk”
• Thesis nominated for GI-Dissertationspreis 2010: “Of Change and Software”
• Best paper award, WCRE 2009: “Benchmarking Lightweight Techniques to Link E-Mails and Source Code”

Contact

• Address:

  Prof. Dr. Romain Robbes 
  DCC, University of Chile 
  Blanco Encalada 2120, Off. 308 
  837-0459 Santiago 
  Chile
  

• Email: rrobbes@dcc_dot_uchile_dot_cl

• Phone: +56 2 978 4974

• Fax: +56 2 689 55 31