Marco Torchiano

Marco Torchiano is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN) at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is a member of the SmartData@PoliTO laboratory and the SOFTENG - Software Engineering Group.

• Research Interests: Agile software development, bias detection, data integrity, software testing, gamification, empirical software engineering, and software maintenance.
• Disciplinary Expertise: Covers software engineering, human-computer interaction, web systems, and data science.

His research focuses on improving software quality through empirical studies, gamification of testing processes, and bias detection in algorithms. He has developed tools like GAppium for gamified testing and MINOS for GDPR compliance analysis.

Recent Trends in his publications include gamification applied to UML/BPMN modeling, Android testing frameworks, algorithmic fairness, and technical debt management in industrial projects.

Scientific Awards:

• EGOV-DeDEM-ePart Best Paper Award (Category 1) - IFIP (2020)
• ICPC Best Paper Award - IEEE (2017)
• PROMISE Best Paper Award - PROMISE Program Committee (2017)
• EESSMod Best Paper Award - EESSMod Program Chairs (2012)
• Best Paper Award - COTS Based Software Systems Conference (2004)
• Fellow - Nexa Center for Internet and Society (2016-)
• Fellow - IEEE (2015-)
• Senior Member - IEEE (2015-)

Advisory Roles: Supervises PhD students in Computer Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Grants: Leads the EndGame project (2023-2025) on gamified end-to-end testing and a PRIN project on software migration to web architectures.