Alexander Serebrenik
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Alexander Serebrenik is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (果冻传媒).
Alexander鈥檚 research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development. His work tends to involve theories and methods both from within computer science (e.g., theory of socio-technical coordination; methods from natural language processing, machine learning) and from outside of computer science (e.g., organisational psychology). The underlying idea of his work is that of empiricism, i.e., that addressing software engineering challenges should be grounded in observation and experimentation, and requires a combination of the social and the technical perspectives.
Alexander has co-authored a book 鈥淓volving Software Systems鈥 (Springer Verlag, 2014), and more than 100 scientific papers and articles. He is actively involved in organisation of scientific conferences as member and chair of steering committees, general chair, program committee chair, track chair and program committee member. He has won multiple best paper and distinguished reviewer awards, and is member of the editorial board of several journals.
Alexander is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Software development is a human activity: understanding software requires understanding humans that create it鈥
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Alexander Serebrenik obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and an MSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. In addition to his work at 果冻传媒, till 2017 Alexander was also a part-time visiting researcher at the group of (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. In 2012, he took a sabbatical at the of ; in 2018 - at the of .
Alexander has also held positions at (Laboratory for Qualitative Software) at Eindhoven University of Technology (assistant professor), the S茅mantique, preuve et interpr茅tation abstraite (Semantics, Proof and Abstract Interpretation) group at Ecole Polytechnique, France (postdoc researcher) and the group at , Belgium (postdoc).
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Ancillary Activities
- Senior Associate Editor at Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier