Dr. Bogdan Vasilescu

Biography

Bogdan Vasilescu is an Associate Professor in the Software Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. Before joining CMU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Davis Eclectic Computational Analytics Lab (DECAL). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science with honors from Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands in October 2014. His PhD work was supervised by Alexander Serebrenik and Mark van den Brand, and it won the Dissertation Award from the Institute for Programming Research and Algorithmics. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, and an engineer's degree in Systems Computer Science from the University of Ploieşti, Romania. His research focuses on Software Engineering and the impact of technology on diverse teams in software development. Vasilescu engages in interdisciplinary research by collecting and analyzing Big Data from open-source software using various research methods from both computer science and social sciences, such as statistical analysis and grounded theory. His work aims to provide data-driven insights into software engineering processes and outcomes.

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