Carlos Gavidia-Calderon
Research Software Engineer
The Alan Turing Institute

I am a Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, and part of the Research Engineering Group. I am also a Visiting Fellow at the SEAD Research Group at The Open University.

I graduated in 2020 from University College London with a PhD in Software Engineering, under the supervision of Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro and Mark Harman. As a postgraduate researcher, I studied cooperation in software development teams using game-theoretic models. I also have a Masters in Computer Science from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru; with a dissertation on ant colony optimisation algorithms applied to computer vision. Previously, I was an undergraduate student of Systems Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria.

As a software engineer, I worked on projects ranging from mobile applications to large-scale information systems. I have also taught courses on programming fundamentals and algorithms to undergraduate engineering students.

• ORCID
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate

Presentations

GECCO2022 - Ant Colony Optimization for Software Engineers

Tutorial presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2022.

ICSE-NIER2022 - What Do You Want From Me? Adapting Systems to the Uncertainty of Human Preferences

Video presentation at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering.

MSR2022 - Quid Pro Quo: An Exploration of Reciprocity in Code Review

Hackathon presentation at the Mining Software Repositories Conference.

ASE2020 - Game-theoretic Analysis of Development Practices: Challenges and Opportunities

Journal-First presentation at the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

ICSE2020 - The Assessor's Dilemma: Improving Bug Repair via Empirical Game Theory

Journal-First presentation at the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering.

Selected Publications

Publication · Preprint

Publication · Preprint · GitHub

IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (2022)
Publication · Preprint · GitHub · MSR2022

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (2022)
Publication · Preprint · ICSE-NIER2022

Journal of Systems and Software (2020)
Publication · Preprint · ASE2020

ArXiv
Preprint· GitHub

SoftwareX (2020)
Publication · Preprint · GitHub

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2019)
Publication · Preprint · ICSE2020

Professional Service

• ISSTA Artifact Evaluation track (2023).
• International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems - TAS (2023).
• Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems - SERENE (2021).
• Workshop on Automated Software Testing - A TEST (2021).
• ESEC/FSE Industry Papers (2021).
• ISSTA Artifact Evaluation track (2021).
• Languages and Tools for Next Generation Testing Workshop - LANGETI (2020).

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
• IET Software.
• Journal of Software: Evolution and Process.

• Co-chair, SimBig Track on Data driven Software Engineering (DISE 2018 , DISE 2019 , DISE 2021, DISE 2022).

Teaching

• Introduction to Computer Science, B.Sc. Systems Engineering, Semester 2021-I.
• Algorithms and Data Structures, B.Sc. Systems Engineering, Semesters 2014-I and 2014-III.
• Structured Programming Languages, B.Sc. Systems Engineering, Semester 2014-II.