Fabio Calefato, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Co-founder & CEO 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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Curriculum Vitae
My English CV with select publications is available here (PDF). The full list of publications is also available (PDF).

Background

  • Experience:
    • Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari (2022 – present), holding the national habilitation as Full Professor in the academic disciplines (SSD) 01/B1 and 09/H1.
    • Co-founder & CEO of PeoplewareAI academic spin-off (2021 – present)
    • Rector’s delegate of GARR network (May 2023 – Sept. 2025)
    • Director’s delegate for student traineeships (2023 – present)
    • Assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari (2019-22)
    • 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
  • Events organization (recent): MSR Registered Reports co-chair (2026), ICPC ERA Track co-chair (2026), ICSME Program co-chair (2024), CHASE Program co-chair (2023)
  • Journal Editorial Boards Memberships: EMSE, JSS , ASE
  • 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)

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, w/ Prof. M. Kalinowski @PUC-Rio Universtity)
    • Topic: AutoML for Software Engineering
  • Luigi Quaranta (XXXV cycle, graduated in 2022)
    • Thesis: Collaboration Around Computational Notebooks To Build AI-enabled Systems
  • Giuseppe Iaffaldano (XXXII cycle, graduated in 2020)
    • Thesis: Investigating the Dynamics of Online Collaborative Communities

Events

Guest Editor (special issues)

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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International Conferences and Workshops

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Books and Book Chapters


National Conferences and Workshops