Diomidis Spinellis

Diomidis Spinellis is a Professor of Software Engineering at the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, and holds a part-time Professor of Software Analytics appointment at the Delft Technical University, Netherlands. His research spans software engineering, IT security, big-data processing, and cloud computing.

• Education: MEng in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

His work includes two award-winning books (Code Reading and Code Quality), over 300 technical papers (12,000+ citations), and the IEEE Computer and Communications of the ACM featured his research. He developed open-source tools like UMLGraph, CScout, and git-issue, and served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software (2015–2018).

• Scientific Awards:
  • Winner of the Software Development Productivity Award (for Code Reading and Code Quality).
  • Four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
  • Crew member of the Usenix Association 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Spinellis contributes to ACM and IEEE leadership roles, including the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013–2015) and chairing its Magazine Operations Committee. His open-source tools (e.g., sed reimplementations, Alexandria3k) are widely adopted in macOS and BSD Unix distributions.