Fabio Palomba

Fabio Palomba is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy. He earned a European PhD in Management & Information Technology (2017), funded by University of Salerno and University of Molise, under advisor Prof. Andrea De Lucia. His research spans software maintenance and evolution, empirical software engineering, and ML systems quality.

• Recipient of IEEE Computer Society Best PhD Thesis Award (2017)
• Multiple Distinguished Paper Awards from ACM/SIGSOFT and IEEE/TCSE
• Recipient of prestigious SNSF Ambizione grant (2019) and IEEE Rising Star Award (2023)

His work investigates fairness-aware practices in ML, technical debt in AI systems, and LLM applications in software engineering. Recent studies focus on automated requirements generation via RECOVER, quantum software engineering, and socio-technical community smells in ML-enabled systems, with empirical analyses across large datasets.

Key editorial roles include Elsevier's Information and Software Technology Journal (2022-), Springer's Empirical Software Engineering Journal (2021-), and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2020-). He has served as program co-chair for SANER 2024, ICPC 2021, and multiple conference tracks.

• 16 Distinguished Reviewer Awards for his refereeing work
• Co-authored 80+ journal papers, 100+ conference papers, and advised 300+ theses