DIBRIS

Filippo Ricca is an assistant professor at the University of Genova, Italy. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the same University, in 2003, with the thesis "Analysis, Testing and Re-structuring of Web Applications".

In 2011 he was awarded the ICSE 2001 MIP (Most Influential Paper) award, for his paper: “Analysis and Testing of Web Applications”.

He is author or coauthor of more than 90 research papers published in international journals and conferences/workshops. At the time of writing (1/11/2012), the h-index reported by Google Scholar is 22 (13 in Scopus); the number of citations 1891. Filippo Ricca was Program Chair of CSMR 2012, ICPC 2011 and WSE 2008. Among the others, he served in the program committees of the following conferences: ICSM, ICST, SCAM, CSMR, WCRE and ESEM. He regularly reviews papers for journals such as TSE, IST, EMSE and JSME. He complies with the required minimal criteria for the Italian professorship qualification (both full and associate professor).

From 1999 to 2006, he worked with the Software Engineering group at ITC-irst (now FBK-irst), Trento, Italy. During this time he was part of the team that worked on Reverse engineering, Re-engineering and Software Testing. He participated in several industrial software engineering projects (e.g., WebFAQ, METAMORPHOS, TECDOC).

His current research interests include Reverse engineering, Empirical studies in Software Engineering, Web applications and Software Testing. The research is mainly conducted through empirical methods such as case studies, controlled experiments and surveys.