Academic Coordinator @ Software Institute
I am the Academic Coordinator of the Software Institute — USI, Lugano and the Brand Ambassador for CodeLounge. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the REVEAL research group led by Prof. Dr. Michele Lanza.
I obtained my Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. Degrees in Informatics at USI.
A topic close to my heart, being the subject of my doctoral dissertation
I am passionate about using visualizations to support the understanding of software
It is exciting to discover interesting and usable information about software
It is fascinating to take software apart, analyze its functions and understand how it works
I serve the academic community by participating in Organizing Committees (23), Program Committees (11), and invitation-only seminars (2). Internally, I support the Software Institute director, foster collaboration across research groups, pursue funding opportunities, organize events, and lead outreach activities (18).
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Self-Driving Cars on Interactive Dynamic Tracks: An Exhibition at Phänomena 2026 SNF Agora · Applied Research · April 2025 – April 2027 · CHF 197,200 |
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Sphere Two: Swiss Pavilion @ Expo 2025 Swissnex · Development Mandate · November 2024 – May 2025 · CHF 40,040 |
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StringsART: A platform to support the playing and teaching of string instruments SUPSI · Development Mandate · December 2020 – February 2021 · CHF 12,000 |
| ICPC 2027
(Tool and Demo Track)
The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension |
| VISSOFT 2023
The 11th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| VISSOFT 2022
The 10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| VISSOFT 2020
(NIER & Tool Demo Track)
The 8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| VISSOFT 2019
(NIER & Tool Demo Track)
The 7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2026 The 6th International Software Engineering Summer School organized in collaboration with Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2025 The 5rd International Software Engineering Summer School organized by the Software Institute |
| Organizing Team
@ Swiss Verification Day 2025 The 2nd edition of the annual gathering of the Swiss formal methods and verification community |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2024 The 4th International Software Engineering Summer School co-organized by the Software Institute and the Dipartimento di Informatica of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro |
| Organizing Team
@ FUSE 2024 The 1st International Symposium on the Future of Software Engineering |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2023 The 3rd International Software Engineering Summer School organized by the Software Institute |
| Organizing Team
@ #FormulaUSI 2022 The 2nd AI-based self-driving car competition organized by the Software Institute |
| Hybrid Experience Coordinator
@ ICER 2022 The 18th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research |
| Local Chair
@ iFM 2022 The 17th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods |
| Publicity and Virtualization Chair
@ SI Summit 2022 A day of invited talks on Sotware Engineering by leading researchers and practitioners |
| Organizing Team
@ #FormulaUSI 2021 The 1st AI-based self-driving car competition organized by the Software Institute |
| Local Chair
@ iFM 2020 The 16th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods |
| Organizing Team
@ USI Hackathon 2019 A hackathon aimed at "making data alive" organized by CodeLounge |
| Artifact Track Chair
@ ICSME 2019 The 35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2019 The 2nd International Software Engineering Summer School co-organized by the Software Institute and the Università degli Studi del Molise |
| Co-Organizer
@ MAINT 2019 The 2nd International Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Interaction Histories |
| Artifact Track Chair
@ VISSOFT 2018 The 7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| Organizing Team
@ SIESTA 2018 The 1st International Software Engineering Summer School organized by the Software Institute |
| ICPC 2024
(Tool Demo Track)
32nd International Conference on Program Comprehension |
| ICSME 2022
(Tool Demo Track)
38th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution |
| ICSME 2021
(Tool Demo Track)
37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution |
| VISSOFT 2021
(Research, NIER, and Tool Demo Tracks)
9th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| ICSE 2021
(Tool Demo Track)
43rd International Conference on Software Engineering |
| ICPC 2020
(Research Track)
28th International Conference on Program Comprehension 🎖️ Distinguished Reviewer Award |
| NIP 2020
1st International Workshop on New Interfaces for Programming |
| ICSME 2019
(Tool Demo Track)
35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution |
| VISSOFT 2019
(Research Track)
7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| VISSOFT 2018
(NIER & Tool Demo Track)
5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| VISSOFT 2016
(NIER & Tool Demo Track)
4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| NII Shonan Meeting no. 192
Augmented Software Visualization |
| NII Shonan Meeting no. 084
Mining & Modeling Unstructured Data in Software ‐ Challenges for the Future |
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#FormulaUSI @ AIPerithink 2026
(Invited Speaker)
Invited presentation of our experience at Phänomena 2026 as part of AIPerithink, ATED's event series bringing ICT professionals together to exchange ideas and experiences. |
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#FormulaUSI @ Phänomena On Tour 2026
(Project Manager)
Switzerland's largest educational initiative designed to make science and technology accessible through interactive experiences |
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#FormulaUSI @ UniVerso 2026
(Instructor)
An interactive activity on autonomous driving as part of UniVerso, the open-day dedicated to showcasing the research and educational programs of USI |
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Self-Driving Cars Workshop @ TecDay Lugano 2025
(Instructor)
An event organized by SATW to support technology education in secondary schools |
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Self-Driving Cars Workshop @ Summer Camp ated4kids 2025
(Mentor)
An interactive activity on autonomous driving during the Summer Camp organized by ATED |
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#FormulaUSI @ UniVerso 2025
(Instructor)
An interactive activity on autonomous driving as part of UniVerso, the open-day dedicated to showcasing the research and educational programs of USI |
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Self-Driving Cars Workshop @ Sportech Tenero 2025
(Instructor)
An introductory workshop on autonomous driving during Sportech, an event held at the National Youth Sports Centre Tenero (CST) to discover the latest scientific and technical developments in sports |
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Workshop on Self-Driving Vehicles for the Organization of Phänomena
(Organizer)
A workshop with the organizers of Phänomena to plan the thematic area dedicated to mobility and autonomous driving |
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Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Self-Driving Cars
(Instructor)
A half-day introduction on Artificial Intelligence applied to self-driving cars organized for Barbengo Middle School students |
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DJI Tello EDU Programming Workshop 2023
(Instructor)
A full-day introduction to drone programming organized for Mendrisio High School students |
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DJI Tello EDU Programming Workshop 2023
(Instructor)
A half-day introduction to drone programming co-organized with IngCH for LiLu2 High School students |
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DJI Tello EDU Programming Workshop 2023
(Instructor)
A full-day introduction to drone programming organized for Mendrisio High School students |
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Self-Driving Cars Workshop @ Sportech Tenero 2023
(Promoter)
An introductory workshop on autonomous driving during Sportech, an event held at the National Youth Sports Centre Tenero (CST) to discover the latest scientific and technical developments in sports |
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DJI Tello EDU Programming Workshop 2022
(Instructor)
A half-day introduction to drone programming organized for Barbengo Middle School students |
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3D Printing Workshop @ TecDay Bellinzona 2022
(Instructor)
An event organized by SATW to support technology education in secondary schools |
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3D Printing Workshop @ TecDay Locarno 2019
(Instructor)
An event organized by SATW to support technology education in secondary schools |
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3D Printing Workshop @ Swiss Digital Day 2019
(Promoter)
The 3rd Digital Day organized by digitalswitzerland |
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3D Printing Workshop 2019
(Instructor)
An introduction to 3D printing organized at Scuola Media Gravesano |
| Expert Evaluator for the MiniPIA funding program of the Apulia Region |
| Committee Member and Secretary General of ACISi, an association representing the intermediate academic body in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland |
| Committee Member of ATED, a Swiss association promoting digital innovation and technology education in Ticino |
| Steering Committee Member of VISSOFT, the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization |
| Member of REPRISE, the register of independent scientific experts established by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) for the evaluation of research projects (e.g., ANVUR VQR, PRIN) |
| Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society |
I co-authored 1 journal article and 28 peer-reviewed conference papers. Additionally, I authored 3 theses corresponding to my academic degrees. My research contributions have been recognized with a Most Influential Paper Award (ICPC 2015) and a Best Paper Award (IWESEP 2016).
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CodeCity: A Comparison of On-Screen and Virtual Reality
David Moreno-Lumbreras, Roberto Minelli, Andrea Villaverde, Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Michele Lanza |
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On the Rise of Modern Software Documentation
Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Bin Lin, Michele Lanza |
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SYN: Ultra-Scale Software Evolution Comprehension
Gianlorenzo Occhipinti, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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DiscOrDance: Visualizing Software Developers Communities on Discord
Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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Using Discord Conversations as Program Comprehension Aid
Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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M3triCity: Visualizing Evolving Software & Data Cities
Susanna Ardigò, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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CodeCity: On-Screen or in Virtual Reality?
David Moreno-Lumbreras, Roberto Minelli, Andrea Villaverde, Michele Lanza, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona |
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Visualizing Data in Software Cities
Susanna Ardigò, Csaba Nagy, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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Voronoi Evolving Treemaps
Davide Paolo Tua, Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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Visualizing Discord Servers
Marco Raglianti, Roberto Minelli, Csaba Nagy, Michele Lanza |
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Visualizing GitHub Issues
Aron Fiechter, Roberto Minelli, Csaba Nagy, Michele Lanza |
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Visualizing Evolving Software Cities
Federico Pfahler and Roberto Minelli and Csaba Nagy and Michele Lanza |
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Visualizing the Evolution of Working Sets
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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Taming the IDE with Fine-grained Interaction Data
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Romain Robbes, Michele Lanza |
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Measuring Navigation Efficiency in the IDE
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza 🏆 Best Paper Award |
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UrbanIt: Visualizing Repositories Everywhere
Andrea Ciani, Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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SODA: The Stack Overflow Dataset Almanac
Nicolas Latorre, Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Luca Ponzanelli, Michele Lanza |
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Blended, Not Stirred: Multi-Concern Visualization of Large Software Systems
Tommaso dal Sasso, Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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The Plague Doctor: A Promising Cure for the Window Plague
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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I Know What You Did Last Summer — An Investigation of How Developers Spend Their Time
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza 🏆 Most Influential Paper Award |
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Free Hugs — Praising Developers For Their Actions
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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Towards Self-Adaptive IDEs
Roberto Minelli |
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Visual Storytelling of Development Sessions
Roberto Minelli, Lorenzo Baracchi, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza |
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Quantifying Program Comprehension with Interaction Data
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza, Takashi Kobayashi |
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Visualizing Developer Interactions
Roberto Minelli, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza, Lorenzo Baracchi |
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Visualizing the Workflow of Developers
Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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SAMOA - A Visual Software Analytics Platform for Mobile Applications
Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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DFlow - Towards the Understanding of the Workflow of Developers
Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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Software Analytics for Mobile Applications - Insights & Lessons Learned
Roberto Minelli, Michele Lanza |
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Interaction-Aware Development Environments
Roberto Minelli |
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Software Analytics for Mobile Applications
Roberto Minelli |
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Commit 2.0 for Eclipse - Enriching Commit Comments with Software Visualization
Roberto Minelli |
Over the years, I taught 1 course in the Master in Software and Data Engineering (MSDE), I served as teaching assistant for 8 courses, and I co-supervised 6 Master theses and 6 Bachelor projects.
| Software & Data Engineering Atelier: Design 101 |
| Software & Data Engineering Atelier: Design 101 |
| Computer Architecture |
| Software Atelier IV |
| Software Atelier IV |
| Software Atelier I |
| Introduction to Software Engineering |
| Software Design and Evolution |