Seminar on March 15, 2021

Title

A journey through research in Informatics, publication, and evaluation

Speaker

Prof. Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

When and Where

March 15, 2021, 16:00-17:00
Online on Zoom, see TAS Resilience Node for registration or send an email to Valeria Cardellini

Abstract

This talk is about research in Informatics (aka, Computer Science, Computing, ICT). It presents a few general principles and sheds light on what is specific of the field. It focuses on two crucial aspects of research: publication – how research results are disclosed to the world – and evaluation – how (and why) research and researchers are evaluated.

The talk is based on the book by the author titled Being a Researcher-an Informatics Perspective, published in 2020 by Springer and will not be a technical talk about autonomous systems like some of the other seminars, but will be of great use to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

Speaker’s Short Bio

Carlo Ghezzi is an ACM Fellow (1999), an IEEE Fellow (2005), a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Italian Academy of Sciences. He received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2015) and the Distinguished Service Award (2006). He has been President of Informatics Europe. He has been a member of the program committee of flagship conferences in the software engineering field, such as the ICSE and ESEC/FSE, for which he also served as Program and General Chair. He has been the Editor in Chief of the ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology and an associate editor of and IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM and Science of Computer Programming, and Computing. Ghezzi’s research has been mostly focusing on different aspects of software engineering. He co-authored over 200 papers and 8 books. He coordinated several national and international research projects. He has been the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant.