Professional Experience

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor (RTD-a), University of L’Aquila, Italy Period: 1st March 2023 – present Responsibilities:

    • Ph.D. Co-advising (external website):

      • Muhammad Waheed Khan (XXXIX cycle)

      • Idrees Ahmad (XXXIX cycle)

      • Payel Patra (XXXVIII cycle)

    • Teaching:

      • Agile Software Methodologies (details)

      • Software Quality Engineering laboraties (details)

      • Advanced Verification and Validation (details)

Past Positions

  • Expert of the Subject in Software Quality Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Italy
    Period: 2020 – 2023
    Responsibilities:
    • Supported students during the SQE course

    • Served as a member of the Exam Committee

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center of Excellence EMERGE, Italy
    Period: 1st November 2019 – 28th February 2023
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center of Excellence DEWS, Italy
    Period: 1st November 2018 – 31st October 2020

Visiting Experiences

  • Visiting Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland
    Period: 15th October 2017 – 25th March 2018 (5 months, 3 days)
    Supervisor: Prof. Mel Ó Cinnéide
    Research Program:
    • Investigated combining functional and non-functional objectives in the context of multi-objective optimization for software refactoring, where non-functional objectives were supported by performance antipattern detection and resolution.

    • Explored the porting of model-based performance antipattern detection and resolution techniques from the model level to the code level.