Mining Software Repositories Professors and Supervisors

Sven Apelمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Software product lines and configurable systems
AI-based program generation and optimization
Socio-technical software analysis
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Professor Sven Apel holds the Chair of Software Engineering at Saarland University's Saarland Informatics Campus in Germany. He is also the Director of the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. His work focuses on software engineering with an emphasis on automation, human factors, and interdisciplinary approaches. Prof. Apel received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2007 from the University of Magdeburg. His academic journey includes: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Magdeburg (2007) Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the German Research Foundation Heisenberg Professorship of the German Research Foundation Prof. Apel's research centers on empowering software engineering practice to enter an era of intensive automation. His key research areas include software variability and configuration, AI-based program generation and optimization, socio-technical software analysis, and empirical and neurophysiological methods. He pays special attention to the human factor and interdisciplinary research questions, applying his findings to real-world software systems from both open-source projects and industry collaborations with partners like Siemens AG, Bosch Engineering, and Airbus Helicopters. Analysis of Prof. Apel's recent publications reveals a strong focus on configurable software systems, neurophysiological approaches to understanding programming, and the application of AI techniques to software engineering problems. His work often bridges the gap between theoretical foundations and practical applications, with many studies involving industrial collaborations. There's a noticeable trend toward interdisciplinary research combining software engineering with neuroscience, organizational studies, and machine learning. Prof. Apel has received numerous prestigious awards and honors: ERC Advanced Grant "Brains On Code" (2022) ACM Distinguished Member for "Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing" (2018) Multiple Most Influential Paper Awards (SPLC'18, ICPC'22, GPCE'23) Multiple Best Paper Awards (SPLC'11, Modularity'15, AOM'18) Heisenberg Professorship and Emmy-Noether Fellowship from the German Research Foundation Prof. Apel has advised numerous Ph.D., Master's, and Bachelor's students throughout his career. His research has been generously funded by multiple grants including an ERC Advanced Grant (2,500,000 Euro, 2022-2027), several DFG projects (CPEC, Congruence, Pervolution), and previous grants like SafeSPL, FeatureFoundation, and Pythia. His work has practical impact through collaborations with industry partners including Siemens AG, Bosch Engineering, and Airbus Helicopters. Prof. Apel leads research in the Chair of Software Engineering at Saarland University, where his team explores the intersection of software engineering, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. His "Brains On Code" ERC project specifically investigates how programmers' brains process code using neuroimaging techniques. The research group maintains strong connections with both academic and industry partners, facilitating the transfer of research findings into practical applications.

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Andreas Zellerمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Andreas Zeller serves as Professor for Software Engineering at Saarland University and faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany. His dual appointments position him at the intersection of academic research and practical cybersecurity applications, contributing significantly to both institutions' research profiles. Professor Zeller's research spans multiple dimensions of software quality assurance, with particular expertise in automated debugging techniques, mining software repositories for insights, specification mining, and security testing methodologies. His work consistently bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementation, resulting in tools and frameworks adopted widely in both research and industry contexts. Analysis of his recent publications reveals an evolutionary trajectory from foundational debugging work toward increasingly sophisticated grammar-based testing approaches, with notable integration of machine learning techniques in recent years. His research demonstrates consistent focus on improving software reliability through automated analysis, with growing emphasis on security applications including XML injection testing, GNSS module security, and binary file format vulnerabilities. Recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants (including the S3 project) ACM Fellow ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award Professor Zeller has successfully secured substantial research funding through competitive mechanisms including ERC grants, enabling his team to pursue ambitious research agendas. His leadership extends to mentoring through his roles as doctoral symposium co-chair and active participation in new faculty development initiatives. He maintains strong engagement with the research community through numerous program committee memberships and conference organization roles. At CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Zeller contributes to the center's mission through research focused on software security testing and analysis. His work on grammar-based testing and fuzzing directly addresses critical security challenges in modern software systems, with practical applications for improving software resilience against attacks.

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Shane McIntoshمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Shane McIntosh is an Associate Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, where he leads the Software Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (Software REBELs). His academic career focuses on empirical studies of software development processes with particular emphasis on release engineering and software quality. Dr. McIntosh's research centers on mining historical data generated during software development to derive practical insights for building more reliable systems. His work spans release engineering (assembling, verifying, and delivering software releases) and software quality (developing guidelines for reliable software). This research manifests in studies of continuous integration systems, build outcome prediction, defect prediction models, and code review practices. His publication record reveals a consistent focus on empirical software engineering with recent papers examining build system reliability, continuous integration practices, and defect prediction. The research demonstrates strong methodological rigor through replication studies, longitudinal analyses, and large-scale data mining of software repositories. His work bridges theoretical insights with practical applications for software development teams. Dr. McIntosh actively contributes to the software engineering community through substantial service roles including Proceedings Co-chair for ICSE 2022, General Chair for PROMISE 2021-2022, and committee positions across major conferences like ASE, ESEC/FSE, and MSR. His teaching portfolio includes foundational courses such as Introduction to Software Engineering, Software Analytics, and Software Delivery. He directs the Software REBELs lab, which provides a collaborative environment for investigating software development data. The lab's work focuses on extracting meaningful patterns from version control systems, issue trackers, and continuous integration pipelines to improve software engineering practices.

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Lu Xiaoمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Lu Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, where she conducts research in software engineering with a focus on software architecture, software economics, cost estimation, and software ecosystems. Dr. Xiao completed her PhD in Computer Science at Drexel University in 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Yuanfang Cai. Her doctoral research focused on the relationship between software architecture and quality attributes. Her research spans several key areas in software engineering with emphasis on empirical methods. She investigates how software architecture influences quality attributes, studies software economics and cost estimation techniques, and examines the dynamics of software ecosystems. Her work frequently analyzes real-world software projects, particularly those in the Apache Software Foundation, providing insights into software maintenance patterns, testing practices, and performance issues. Dr. Xiao has developed practical tools like SAIN for software architecture infrastructure and eFish'nSea for performance education. Analysis of Dr. Xiao's publication record reveals consistent contributions to empirical software engineering, particularly in software architecture analysis, testing methodologies, and performance issues. Her research often centers on Apache projects, demonstrating methodological rigor in studying real-world development practices. She has made significant advances in understanding test refactoring, mocking frameworks, and the identification of performance bottlenecks through linguistic analysis of issue reports. Dr. Xiao has actively contributed to the software engineering research community through service on program committees for major conferences including ASE, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, and ICSA. Her work on program committees spans multiple tracks including Research Papers, Student Research Competition, and specialized workshops. As an academic advisor, Dr. Xiao guides graduate students in research on software architecture analysis, testing practices, and performance optimization. Her research methodology combines empirical analysis of large software repositories with tool development and validation, ensuring practical relevance of her findings. Dr. Xiao leads research efforts focused on understanding the relationship between software architecture and quality attributes. Her current work on bots in pull requests represents cutting-edge research into automation in open source development processes, continuing her tradition of investigating real-world software engineering phenomena.

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Masud Rahmanمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE)
Software Maintenance and Evolution
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Masud Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Canada, where he leads the RAISE Lab. Previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science/Software Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and a postdoctoral fellowship at Polytechnique Montreal. His academic career demonstrates strong progression with significant research impact in software engineering. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Current) University of Saskatchewan (Ph.D. studies) Polytechnique Montreal (Postdoctoral research) Dr. Rahman's research focuses on the intelligent automation of software maintenance and evolution, particularly targeting software debugging, code search, and code reviews. His work strategically combines Software Engineering with Artificial Intelligence techniques including Machine/Deep Learning, Information Retrieval, Mining Software Repositories, and Natural Language Processing. His industry experience as a professional developer for three years significantly shaped his research direction toward solving practical software maintenance challenges that cost the global economy billions annually. His research program addresses critical problems in software bug detection, diagnosis, explanation, and reproduction, with increasing focus on AI-powered and simulation modeling software. His publications demonstrate consistent output in top-tier venues including 7 papers at ICSE (A*), 3 at FSE (A*), 3 at ASE (A*), 8 at EMSE (A), 6 at ICSME (A), and 9 at MSR (A). The research trends show increasing focus on deep learning applications for software engineering problems, with particular attention to code search, bug localization, and debugging automation. His work has evolved from traditional information retrieval approaches to incorporate advanced neural network techniques and generative AI. Governor General's Gold Medal 2019 U of S Doctoral Thesis Award 2019 CS Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 TCSE Distinguished Paper Award Most Influential Paper Award Dr Keith Geddes Award Dalhousie Belong Research Fellowship President's Gold Medal (Bangladesh) Dr. Rahman has secured $500K+ in competitive research funding as Principal Investigator, including an NSERC Discovery Grant, Mitacs Accelerate International, and Climate Action and Awareness Fund. He actively collaborates with industry partners including Metabob Inc., Mozilla Firefox, and Vendasta Technologies. His service to the community includes extensive program committee work for major conferences and journal reviewing. He leads the RAISE Lab, which focuses on developing AI-powered solutions for software maintenance challenges, with current projects emphasizing sustainable software innovation and sustainable AI as part of Dalhousie's strategic goals.

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Maxime Lamotheمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Maxime Lamothe is an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montreal specializing in empirical software engineering and mining software repositories. His research focuses on software APIs, build systems, and the intersection of AI and software engineering. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo's Software REBELs Lab under Prof. Shane McIntosh. Dr. Lamothe's educational background includes: Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Concordia University (2020) M.Eng from Concordia University (2017) B.Eng from McGill University (2013) His research interests center around empirical studies of software engineering practices, with particular focus on API design and evolution, software build systems, and performance analysis. Dr. Lamothe investigates how developers interact with APIs, how build systems operate in practice, and how AI techniques can enhance software engineering processes while maintaining human oversight of critical decisions. Dr. Lamothe's publication record shows a consistent focus on empirical approaches to understanding software engineering practices. His work frequently examines API usage patterns, code review processes, and continuous integration systems. A notable trend is his growing interest in applying AI techniques to software engineering challenges while maintaining empirical validation of proposed solutions through rigorous case studies and longitudinal analyses. Dr. Lamothe actively serves the academic community as a reviewer for top journals including Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), and Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). He has served on program committees for major conferences including ASE, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, MSR, and SANER across multiple years, with particular involvement in the NIER Track, Research Papers track, and Tool Demonstration tracks. Currently seeking Masters and Ph.D. students, Dr. Lamothe leads research at the intersection of traditional software engineering practices and emerging AI techniques. His work combines rigorous empirical methods with practical applications to solve real challenges in software development, with implications for improving API design, enhancing code review processes, optimizing build systems, and developing trustworthy AI-assisted software engineering tools.

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Thomas Degueuleمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Thomas Degueule is a researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in France, actively contributing to software engineering research since 2015. He serves on program committees for major conferences including ASE, ICSE, and SLE, with primary research interests in Software Evolution, Empirical Software Engineering, and Domain-Specific Languages. His work focuses on breaking change analysis in APIs and libraries, client-library compatibility testing, and dependency management. He develops practical tools like Roseau for source-based breaking change detection and investigates semantic versioning impacts in ecosystems like Maven Central. His empirical approach leverages large-scale repository analysis to address real-world software maintenance challenges, particularly in Java ecosystems. Recent publications (2023-2025) show consistent contributions to breaking change analysis and compatibility testing, appearing in top venues like ASE, ICSE, and ISSTA. His research bridges theoretical insights with practical tooling for software evolution challenges, demonstrating strong empirical methodology and tool-oriented contributions. No scientific awards are documented in the available information. Degueule has advised no publicly listed students and holds no mentioned research grants. His organizational roles include Program Co-Chair for SLE 2023 and committee positions across multiple conferences, reflecting significant service to the software engineering community.

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Gian Luca Scocciaمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Gian Luca Scoccia is an Assistant Professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in Italy, where he also completed his PhD in 2019. He maintains active roles in major software engineering conferences as a program committee member for ASE (2024-2025) and SANER (2026). His academic background includes: PhD from Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (2019) Scoccia's research centers on empirical software engineering with specialized focus areas including mobile app security , software repository mining , and program analysis . His recent work increasingly integrates artificial intelligence into software development practices, particularly examining ethical implications in autonomous systems and energy efficiency in LLM-driven applications. He employs rigorous empirical methodologies across all research domains. Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals strong convergence between traditional software engineering and AI innovation, with significant emphasis on mobile contexts, developer tooling, and ethical frameworks. His work consistently combines theoretical architecture design with empirical validation through user studies and systematic assessments. Scoccia demonstrates deep community engagement through program committee service for ASE and SANER conferences, contributing to the advancement of software engineering research standards and discourse.

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Alexander Serebrenikمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Alexander Serebrenik is a full professor of social software engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, working within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. His academic profile spans decades of interdisciplinary research bridging computer science and social sciences. Professor Serebrenik's research focuses on facilitating software evolution through understanding social aspects of development. His work integrates computer science methods (socio-technical coordination theory, natural language processing, machine learning) with organizational psychology principles. A consistent theme across his publications is empiricism - addressing software engineering challenges through observation and experimentation while balancing social and technical perspectives. His recent work increasingly emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion in software engineering, culminating in his 2024 book "Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering: Best Practices and Insights" (APress). His publication record reveals evolving interests from socio-technical coordination to human factors, community dynamics in open source, and now DEI-focused research. Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2023 Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award at FSE 2020 Senior member of IEEE Member of ACM As an academic leader, Professor Serebrenik has mentored PhD students including Tukaram Muske, and actively participates in doctoral symposia. His service includes roles as Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair at multiple conferences and extensive program committee participation across the software engineering conference landscape. His research group at TU/e maintains an active program studying the social dimensions of software engineering through empirical investigations, contributing significantly to understanding how human factors influence development processes and outcomes.

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Hongyu Zhangمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Hongyu Zhang is a Professor and Dean of the School of Big Data and Software Engineering at Chongqing University, China, and an Honorary Professor at The University of Newcastle, Australia. Previously, he served as a Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, China. He received his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2003. His academic journey spans prestigious institutions, combining industry research experience with academic leadership. Dr. Zhang's research interests focus on intelligent software engineering, software analytics, data-driven software engineering, software fault management, testing and debugging, and software maintenance and reuse. His work centers on improving software quality and productivity by mining and analyzing vast amounts of software data. Over the years, he has developed innovative methods that apply data mining, machine learning (including deep learning), and information retrieval techniques to extract knowledge from software data and solve complex software engineering problems. His research spans three major areas: intelligent programming (code search, code summarization, code generation), intelligent quality prediction (defect prediction, cloud failure prediction, performance prediction), and intelligent fault detection and diagnosis (log-based fault detection, crash-based fault localization, bug report analytics). His recent publications demonstrate a clear trend toward integrating large language models and deep learning techniques with traditional software engineering practices. The research spans intelligent programming assistance, code security, UI automation, distributed systems optimization, and performance analysis. His work increasingly focuses on practical applications of AI in software engineering, with emphasis on real-world impact in industrial settings, particularly in microservices, cloud systems, and large-scale software development environments. 8 ACM Distinguished Paper Awards Best Paper Award: How Long Will it Take to Mitigate this Incident for Online Service Systems? David Lorge Parnis Fellowship Senior Member of IEEE Distinguished Member of ACM Distinguished Member of CCF Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) Recognized in The Australian's Top Researchers special edition as leading researcher in Software Systems World's Top 2% Scientists (career-long) Dr. Zhang has successfully advised numerous PhD and Master's students who have gone on to prominent positions at leading technology companies and academic institutions worldwide. His research has been supported by significant grants including Australian Research Council Discovery Projects (as Lead CI) and multiple National Science Foundation of China projects. His work has made tangible impacts in industry, most notably through the Microsoft Developer Assistant project which received over 450K downloads in 2016. He leads research groups focused on intelligent software engineering and software analytics, with strong collaborations between Chongqing University, The University of Newcastle, and Microsoft Research. His teams develop practical tools for code intelligence, log analysis, and fault diagnosis that are deployed in real-world online service systems.

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Qing Huangمشاهده پروفایل

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Max Planck Institute for Security and PrivacyGermany

Qing Huang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer and Information Engineering at Jiangxi Normal University in Nanchang, China. His academic career focuses on bridging software engineering with artificial intelligence, particularly through the application of large language models to enhance software development processes. His research interests span multiple interconnected domains: Software Engineering Knowledge Graphs Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages Artificial Intelligence applications in software development Dr. Huang's recent work demonstrates a strong focus on leveraging large language models (LLMs) to address fundamental challenges in software engineering. His research explores how AI can enhance code generation, API understanding, software testing, and knowledge representation in programming contexts. A significant portion of his work investigates the intersection of knowledge graphs and LLMs to create more intelligent software development tools. His publications reveal a consistent pattern of innovation in applying cutting-edge AI techniques to practical software engineering problems, with particular emphasis on improving developer productivity through better tooling and knowledge management. Dr. Huang has made notable contributions to the field of prompt engineering for software development tasks, exploring how natural language interfaces can serve as "APIs" for human-AI interaction. His work on AI Chains represents a novel approach to connecting human developers with LLM capabilities through structured knowledge representations. Additionally, he has conducted significant research on smart contract analysis, code reuse, and type inference in partial code contexts. His scientific contributions have been recognized through publications at major software engineering conferences including ASE and ICSE, with multiple papers accepted across different tracks (Research Papers, Journal-First, Tool Demonstrations). Dr. Huang serves as a Program Committee member for ASE 2025 in the Research Papers track, demonstrating his standing in the software engineering research community. Dr. Huang collaborates extensively with researchers from various institutions, including Data61 (Australia), Nanyang Technological University, and other Chinese universities. His work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between traditional software engineering and emerging AI technologies.

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Yassine Ouhammouمشاهده پروفایل

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National Graduate School of Mechanics and AerotechnicsFrance

Yassine Ouhammou is an Associate Professor in computer science at École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique (ENSMA), where he is a member of the "Real-Time and Embedded Systems" research team at LIAS laboratory. His work focuses on critical real-time embedded systems with applications in avionics, drones, and control command systems. His research interests include: Software architectures for critical real-time embedded systems Design and analysis of critical real-time systems regarding their temporal performances Model-based design using domain specific languages (MoSaRT, AADL, Capella, Time4Sys) Real-time scheduling and dimensioning Knowledge repositories for expertise capitalization, reuse and reproducibility Collaborative engineering for complex systems design Model-driven engineering and formal methods Dr. Ouhammou's publication record shows consistent contributions to real-time systems, embedded architectures, and model-based approaches. His recent work demonstrates increasing emphasis on drone technology and avionic applications, with numerous collaborations on autopilot design, scheduling optimization, and verification methodologies. His research bridges theoretical computer science with practical aerospace engineering challenges, addressing safety-critical aspects of embedded systems. Professional service includes: PC Member of MEDES 2020, INISTA 2020, WIMS, SADASC 2020 PC Chair of DETECT 2019 General Co-Chair of RTNS 2018 PC Member of multiple international conferences since 2017 Dr. Ouhammou collaborates extensively with researchers in the field of real-time systems, particularly with Emmanuel Grolleau and other members of the LIAS laboratory. His work often involves interdisciplinary teams addressing complex challenges in aerospace and embedded systems engineering, with practical applications in drone technology and avionic systems.

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Jorge Raul Navarro-Cabreraمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

Lumière University Lyon 2France

Jorge Raul Navarro-Cabrera serves as a contracted lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Peruvian Union University since March 2025, while concurrently holding technical and editorial roles at Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Tarapoto, Peru. His institutional affiliations demonstrate dual engagement in academic instruction and university publishing operations. He earned his Systems and Computer Engineering degree from Universidad Nacional de San Martin, establishing the foundation for his interdisciplinary research career. This educational background directly informs his applied technical approach across diverse domains. Navarro-Cabrera's research program centers on artificial intelligence and data science applications addressing Peruvian societal challenges. His work in health informatics develops non-invasive diagnostic tools using computer vision, while tourism technology research focuses on ICT solutions for destination promotion. Educational data mining constitutes another pillar, particularly unsupervised learning for student retention prediction. These threads converge in practical implementations like municipal sociocultural web applications and immigration risk classification systems. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals a consistent pattern of collaborative research with Miguel Valles-Coral and Lloy Pinedo, spanning healthcare diagnostics, tourism innovation, and educational technology. The geographical focus remains predominantly Peruvian, with methodological strengths in unsupervised learning algorithms and multimodal data analysis. His academic service includes editorial assistance for scientific journals at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, complementing his technical role in the university's editorial department. This combination of teaching, research, and publishing support reflects a multifaceted academic profile engaged with both theoretical and operational aspects of higher education.

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