Mircea F. Lungu

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I am a researcher at the Software Composition Group at the University of Berne. I work closely with Oscar Nierstrasz and the members of the group.

I got my PhD from the University of Lugano, with Michele Lanza as advisor and my engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Timişoara, with a thesis supervised by Radu Marinescu and Tudor Girba. I was as a visiting researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Center in NY with Wim De Pauw.

My research interests are in software engineering, software evolution, ecosystem analysis, programming languages, and mobile applications.

Student Project Proposals

Here you can find several projects that are available at the moment. If you have other ideas that are related to any of these topics, feel free to contact me.

How I Know My System — Source code improvement via gamification
~~Polite for EV3~~ - API design for controlling the Mindstorms from Polite
~~The Large Word Collider~~ - Increasing the chance of a learner encountering his learned material
~~Intelligent eBook Reader~~ - Innovative app supporting language acquisition

Research Highlights

Software Evolution
	Project: Agile Software Assessment - (EUR500,000) SNF project building next generation of tool support for software evolution
	Tool: Softwarenaut - Open source tool for monitoring software architecture evolution.
	Infrastructure: Pangea - Parallel Infrastructure for making multi-language empirical studies in software engineering easy
	Topic: Big Software Data - Empirical Studies of large scale software analysis
Software Ecosystems
	Paper: A quantitative study of developer needs in ecosystem context
	Tool: The St1-PL/1 tool for PL1 Ecosystem analysis tested at Credit Suisse
	Workshop: WEA - the Third International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures in Dubrovnik (co-located with ECSA)
Languages
	Language: Polite - Investigating PL syntaxes closer to natural language
	Infrastructure: Zeeguu - Ubiquitous second language acquisition
Visualization
	Tool: Quicksilver - Infrastructure for the interactive exploration of hierarchical data sets
	Framework: Moose - Software visualisation and analysis platform to which I and my students have been contributing since many years.

Teaching

I teach since a long time. In my 2^nd year of bachelor I was already teaching the introductory programming course at a technical highschool in Timisoara, Romania. I had one student who was a prison warden during the day. Teaching him to code was awesome.

Teaching is learning, so I have been lucky to be teaching a broad range of topics until now: 1. Compiler Construction, 2. Concurrency Patterns, 3. Introduction to Programming (two guest lectures) 4. Principles of UI Design, 5. Human Computer Interaction. 6. Software Composition Seminar

^(new) In the fall of 2014 I am teaching the following courses: 7. Software Design and Evolution 8. Introduction to Software Engineering

Service to the Community

I am on the PC of SE Week, OOPSLA, WCRE, ICSM TD Track, WASDeTT. I was on the PC of ICSE TD Track and others. For the full list see my resume.

Several Swiss and international events that I organize or have recently organized are:

The CHOOSE Forum 2012: Models vs. Services
The 1st International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures co-located in 2015 with ESEC/FSE.
The Seminar on Advanced Tools and Techniques for SE at the University of Bern in July 2013.
The CHOOSE Forum 2013: SE: Between Wishful Thinking and Thinkable Wishes
The 2nd International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures co-located in 2014 with ECSA.

I review for the following periodicals:

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution
Empirical Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Science of Computer Programming
Foundations and Trends in Human Computer Interaction
The Journal of Object Technology

Mentoring

I advised the following master (MS) and bachelor (BS) theses at the Universities of Bern (UB) and Lugano (UL):

Maudlin Kummer	Categorising Test Smells	BS, UB
Dominique Rahm	HYKOMSYS: A Developer’s Online Quiz	BS, UB
Simon Marti	Second Language Acquisition Through Free Reading and Repetition	BS, UB
Erik Aeschlimann	St1-PL/1: Reverse Engineering PL1 Ecosystems (WCRE paper)	MS, UB
Dennis Schenk	Quicksilver: A Framework for Hierarchical Data Analysis (SSE paper,thesis)	MS, UB
Nicole Haenni	Information Needs in Software Ecosystems (papers: WEA’13, WEA’14)	MS, UB
Jacopo Malnati	Developer centric analysis of SVN ecosystems (MSR paper)	MS, UL
Alessio Boeckmann	MARS - Modular Architecture Recommendation System	MS, UL
Jacopo Malnati	X-Ray - An Eclipse Plug-in for Software Visualization.	BS, UL

Contact

Email: my-last-name that-sign-you-use-in-email-addresses iam-unibe-ch
Telephone: +41 31 631.3314
Fax: +41 31 631.3355
Postal Address: SCG Building
Visiting Address: Room 102, SCG Building