Massimiliano Di Penta

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

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.

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.

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

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. because of the value of looking at data from different angles.

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.

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

Selected professional service Editor, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process Vice chair, ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee Program chair, International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023 Program co-chair, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021 Program co-chair, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2017