Andrei Chiş

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This is my old website that I used during my Phd. New website is under construction. You can follow me on twitter for updates: @Chis_Andrei

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Bern in the Software Composition Group since October 2012. Prior to this, I got a master and a bachelor degree in software engineering from the "Politehnica" University of Timişoara, under the supervision of Radu Marinescu, with theses in the area of software visualisation. During my master I worked at intooitus on integrating the results of my research into infusion, a platform for assessing the quality of software systems. Currently, apart from doing a PhD, I'm an active contributor to Pharo and Moose and from time to time a blogger.

Research Interests

I maintain that integrated development environments (IDEs) have to be moldable, that is, they have to be aware of the application under development and the developer's tasks and enable rapid and effective customization to new applications and development tasks. In my current research I build new solutions that make this vision possible. At the moment, as part of the [Glamorous Toolkit](https://gtoolkit.com) team, I am working on:

Moldable Debugger: make the creation of domain-specific debuggers an easy and cheap activity;
Moldable Inspector: explore objects using views tailored to the problems and the object domain;
Moldable Spotter: unify search tools within an IDE and intertwine searching with navigation

Apart from this my research interests lie in the areas of:

| | | |---|---| |Programming Environments| Object-Oriented Programming |User Interface Design| Domain-Specific Languages |Debugging| Software Visualizations

Publications

Author Page

Awards

SPLASH 2015 Distinguished Demo Award for GTInspector: A Moldable Domain-Aware Object Inspector by Andrei Chiş, Tudor Girba, Oscar Nierstrasz, Aliaksei Syrel
European Smalltalk User Group 2015 Technology Innovation Award (1st prize) for GT Spotter by Aliaksei Syrel, Andrei Chiş, Tudor Girba, Juraj Kubelka and Stefan Reichhart
Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2014 Best Student Paper Award for The Moldable Debugger: A Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers by Andrei Chiş, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz
European Smalltalk User Group 2014 Technology Innovation Award (1st prize) for GT Inspector by Andrei Chiş, Tudor Girba and Aliaksei Syrel
IWST 2014 Best Paper Award (3rd prize) for The Moldable Inspector: A framework for domain-specific object inspection by Andrei Chiş, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz

Talks and tutorials

GT's Moldable Tools at Pharo Days 2016 — Namur, Belgium, March 31 - April 1, 2016
The Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo by Andrei Chis and Aliaksei Syrel at ESUG — Brescia, Italy, July 13-17, 2015
GT - A new generation of development tools by Andrei Chis and Aliaksei Syrel at Fosdem — Brussels, Belgium, January 31 - February 1, 2015
The GT-Tools Revolution by Andrei Chis, Aliaksei Syrel and Juraj Kubelka at Pharo Days — Lille, France, January 29-30, 2015 (video)
A domain-specific debugger for the PetitParser parser framework by Andrei Chis, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz at Parsing@SLE — Västerås, Sweden, September 14, 2014 (abstract, slides).
GTInspector: hands on by Andrei Chis and Tudor Girba at ESUG — Cambridge, England, August 18-22, 2014
The GTInspector: A moldable object inspector by Andrei Chis, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz at ECOOP - Demos and Tutorials — Uppsala, Sweden, July 30, 2014
The Moldable Debugger at PharoConf/MooseDay — Bern, Switzerland, April 2-4, 2013

Program committees

VISSOFT 2016 - NIER and Tools Tracks (4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization), October 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
IWST 2016 (International Workshop in Smalltalk Technologies), August 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
VEM 2016 (4th Workshop on Software Visualization, Evolution and Maintenance), September 2016, Maringá, Brazil
VISSOFT 2015 - Artifact Evaluation Committee (3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization), September 2015, Bremen, Germany
VISSOFT 2015 - NIER and Tools Tracks (3rd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization), September 2015, Bremen, Germany
IWST 2015 (International Workshop in Smalltalk Technologies), July2015, Brescia, Italy

Reviewing activities

I co-reviewed for the following conferences/workshops:

ICSME 2016 (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution)
SANER 2016 (IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering)
Onward! 2016 (ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software)
ICSME 2015 (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution)
ICSE 2015 (International Conference on Software Engineering)
SLE 2014 (International Conference on Software Language Engineering)
DLS 2014 (Dynamic Languages Symposium)
OOPSLA 2013 (Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications)
CSMR 2013 (European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering)
ICSE 2013 - NIER Track (International Conference on Software Engineering)
XP 2013 (International Conference on Agile Software Development)
SC 2013 (International Conference on Software Composition)
LIVE 2013 (International Workshop on Live Programming)
WASDeTT-4 2013 (International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques)
ICSM 2013 (International Conference on Software Maintenance)