Fabio Calefato, Ph.D.
Associate professor
CEO & co-founder of PeoplewareAI
academic spin-off

Via E. Orabona, 4
70125 Bari, Italy
Phone: +39 080 571 2213
Email: email
PGP key: gpg
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Background

  • Current position:
    • Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari
    • CEO & co-founder of PeoplewareAI academic spin-off
    • Rector’s delegate of GARR network
    • Director’s delegate for student traineeships
  • Events organization (recent): ICSME Program co-chair (2024), CHASE Program co-chair (2023), PROFES Workshops & Tutorials co-chair (2022), ICSE SCORE co-chair (2021)
  • Journal Boards Memberships (recent): JSS Editorial Board, ASE Editorial Board, TOSEM Distinguished Reviewers Board & Replicated Computational Results Distinguished Reviewers Board, EMSE Review Board Member (2015-18),
  • Steering Committees Memberships: ICGSE Steering Board Committee (2019-21).
  • Reviews: A partial list of my recent activity as a reviewer is publicly available on Web of Science Clarivate
  • Visiting:
    • STRUDEL, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Jul. – Oct. 2017)
    • CHISEL, University of Victoria, Canada (Nov. – Dic. 2016)
    • SEGAL, University of Victoria, Canada (Jan. – Apr. 2006)
    • Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien, Austria (May – Jun. 2004)
  • Assistant professor at the Jonian Dept., Taranto, University of Bari (2015-19)
  • Post-doc at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari (2007-08; 2010-14)
  • Ph.D. (2004-2007) in Computer Science received in May 2007 from the University of Bari. Thesis: “Supporting Synchronous Communication in Distributed Software Teams,” listed on SIGSOFT Selected Ph.D. Dissertations in the Area of Software Engineering and published by VDM Publishing, ISBN 978-3-639-17562-2
  • MSc in Computer Science received in October 2002 from the University of Bari

Research Interests

  • Collaborative & Social software engineering
  • Mining software repositories and technical Q&A sites
  • SE4AI
  • Psychometric and sentiment analyses from communication channels in the social programmer ecosystem
  • Collaboration in online, creative communities
  • Community-driven knowledge sharing
  • Computer-mediated communication theories and tools

Ph.D. Students (co-) supervision

  • Kelly Azevedo Borges Leal (current)
    • Topic: AutoML for Software Engineering
  • Luigi Quaranta (graduated in 2022)
    • Thesis: Collaboration Around Computational Notebooks To Build AI-enabled Systems
  • Giuseppe Iaffaldano (graduated in 2020)
    • Thesis: Investigating the Dynamics of Online Collaborative Communities

Events

Software

  • All active COLLAB Projects (hosted on GitHub)
    • Under the spotlight
      • Apache-Big5 – A personality profiler for developers working in the ASF ecosystem DOI
      • mini-IPIP test – A Python implementation for taking online the 20-item version of the Big Five personality test DOI
      • EMTk – A generic toolkit for training your own emotion and polarity classifiers on any textual corpus. The toolkit is also available as a Docker image
      • pySOreputation – An API for computing an approximate reputation score of Stack Overflow users at any time (demo) DOI
  • Discontinued projects
    • SocialCDE (formerly SocialTFS)
    • eConference over ECF
    • P2PConference
    • IBIS: Internet-Based Inspection System

Experimental datasets

If you intend to use any of these datasets for your own research, please make sure to cite the related paper:

Publications


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2012-2004


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Books and Book Chapters


National Conferences and Workshops