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News

January 2024: I will give a keynote at MODELS 2024.

January 2022: I am honored to receive the 2022 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for “contributions to mining software repositories and defect prediction.”

January 2022: I am honored to be recognized as an ACM Fellow for “contributions to mining software repositories and defect prediction.”

July 2021: I have been reelected as Chair of ACM SIGSOFT.

Nov 2020: I am honored to be recognized as an IEEE Fellow for “contributions to data science in software engineering, research and practice.”

Apr 2020: I am honored to receive the IEEE CS TCSE New Direction Award with Ahmed E. Hassan (Queen’s University) for our contributions to establish the field of mining software repositories.

Apr 2020: Our ICST 2010 paper “Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista” received the Most Influential Paper Award at ICST 2020.

Aug 2019: Our ESEC/FSE 2009 paper “Cross-project Defect Prediction: a Large Scale Experiment on Data vs. Domain vs. Process” received the Test of Time Award at ESEC/FSE 2019 in Tallin!

May 2019: Microsoft Research Podcast “The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann”

Publications

For my publications, please visit my DBLP entry or Google Scholar profile. For pre-prints, please visit ArXiv.org page. If you need copies of any of my papers, please send me an email! I am very happy to send you copies of my papers!

Talks

For a selected list of presentations, please visit my Speaker Deck profile (talks since 2014) or my SlideShare profile (talks until 2013).

Books

I have co-edited several books, most recently Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering, a free open access e-book (get the book on Amazon.com).