Research and Development

My actual activities include a mix of research and development, mainly with the role of Technical Lead but also as a PI or co-PI. Around 20% of my time is dedicated to slack projects, which consist of side projects that I pursue with the goal of exploring new technologies, experimenting with new ideas with other research groups, or simply to learn new skills. This page contains as well a list of past projects I have been involved in during my career.

Timeline

1 September 2022 Project Tech Lead

Institutional Foundations of Industrialization, Financialization, and Globalization of the Swiss Economy

Leveraging NLP and ML to transform historical corpora into structured geocoded data

Institutional Foundations of Industrialization, Financialization, and Globalization of the Swiss Economy
1 November 2024 Project Tech Lead

Sphere Two: Swiss Pavilion @ Expo 2025

An interactive art-science installation for the Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2025 that turns visitors' spoken wishes into floating soap bubbles.

Sphere Two: Swiss Pavilion @ Expo 2025
1 September 2023 Project co-PI

Serious Game for Urban Economics Education

A Serious Game to teach Urban Economics built by students of Informatics for students of Economics

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Serious Game for Urban Economics Education
1 October 2022 Project co-PI

Software quality assessment for Justitia 4.0

In-depth analysis of a large software system from multiple perspectives

Software quality assessment for Justitia 4.0
1 January 2020 Project PI

Beyond Watching: Next Generation Programming Tutorials Leveraging Interaction Data

Making video tutorials fully interactive by leveraging IDE interaction data

Beyond Watching: Next Generation Programming Tutorials Leveraging Interaction Data
1 July 2019 Project co-PI

Collecting and Visualizing Development Activities in Visual Studio Code

Tracking low-level IDE interaction events and transforming them into meaningful data to understand our own productivity

Collecting and Visualizing Development Activities in Visual Studio Code

Slack Projects

Select side projects I pursue in my slack time. Each is described on the slack projects page.

Past Projects

Timeline

1 January 2018 Project Tech Lead

myUSI Research & Teaching Support Platform

Management and analytics for the University

myUSI Research & Teaching Support Platform
1 April 2014 Project Postdoctoral Researcher

ESSENTIALS: People-centric Essentials for Software Evolution

Shifting the focus of software evolution research to the people-centric 'evolutionary essentials' that stakeholders need in their current working context.

ESSENTIALS: People-centric Essentials for Software Evolution
1 April 2013 Project Postdoctoral Researcher

HI-SEA: Holistic Immersive Software Evolution Ambient

A holistic immersive ambient for software evolution, integrating the data around a project into a visual environment for analysis and intelligent recommendations.

HI-SEA: Holistic Immersive Software Evolution Ambient
1 December 2008 Project PhD Researcher

SMScom: Self-Managing Situated Computing

Methods and tools for the design, validation, and operation of dependable self-managing situated software.

SMScom: Self-Managing Situated Computing