Marco D'Ambros

Marco D'Ambros is Professor and Director of CodeLounge, the software research & development center within the Software Institute at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. Since February 2018 he has led CodeLounge, bridging academic research with industrial practice.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010 – Dissertation: "On the Evolution of Source Code and Software Defects"
• M.Sc. (Laurea) in Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2005 – Thesis: "Software Archaeology – Reconstructing the Evolution of Software Systems"

Research Interests

Marco’s work centers on mining software repositories, software evolution, and software visualization. He designs interactive visual analytics tools—such as Churrasco, BugCrawler, Evolution Radar—that help developers and researchers understand how large codebases change over time, where defects emerge, and how teams collaborate. Recent projects extend these ideas to microservices architectures and text mining of development communication (e.g., mailing lists, issue trackers).

Scientific Awards

• Best Paper Award, IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) 2009

Grants & Collaborations

Between 2012 and 2018 Marco led high-impact data-integration projects for government and enterprise clients worldwide as a technical leader at Palantir Technologies, bringing industrial-scale challenges back to academia. At USI he continues to foster industry partnerships through CodeLounge, securing collaborative R&D funding for topics ranging from large-scale microservice evolution to AI-assisted program comprehension.

Laboratories & Teams

CodeLounge serves as an open laboratory where faculty, doctoral students, and industry engineers co-develop next-generation tooling for software evolution analysis. The lab hosts visiting researchers and maintains open-source releases of its research prototypes.