Dr. Bogdan Vasilescu

Biography

Bogdan Vasilescu is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in Software Engineering, focusing on the dynamics of software development within distributed teams. Prior to his appointment at CMU, Dr. Vasilescu completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Davis Eclectic Computational Analytics Lab (DECAL) under the supervision of Vladimir Filkov and Prem Devanbu. He earned his PhD in Computer Science with honors from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in October 2014, where he was mentored by Alexander Serebrenik and Mark van den Brand. His dissertation was recognized with an award from the Institute for Programming Research and Algorithmics. Dr. Vasilescu 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 in Romania. His research interests lie at the intersection of empirical software engineering, social computing, and computer-supported cooperative work. He utilizes mixed research methods from computer science and social sciences to analyze large datasets, particularly in the realm of open-source software and social coding platforms like GitHub. His work aims to understand and improve productivity and code quality within diverse software teams through data-driven insights.

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