Roberto Verdecchia, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, bio photo

Roberto Verdecchia

Computer Scientist, TT Assistant Professor at UniFI.

 Via di Santa Marta 3, Florence. Room 235   G. Scholar   ResearchGate LinkedIn Twitter Github e-Mail

Research and related activities

Broadly speaking, I am interested in adopting empirical methods to improve software development and system evolution, with particular interest in the fields of technical debt, software sustainability, software testing, and software education.

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Invited Talks

  • “Technical Debt Seeds”, Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24452 - Reframing Technical Debt (Dastuhl 24452). Wadern, Germany. 2024.
  • “Discovering the Undercurrents: A Glimpse at Technical Debt in Self-Adaptive Systems” (Slides), 7th Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architecture Workshop Keynote (CASA ). Luxembourg. 2024.
  • “Empirical Research for Greener Software: Where Two Worlds Meet” (Video), Centro de Informática, Federal University of Pernambuco (CIn). Recife, Brazil. 2024.
  • “Green Software: Unleashing The Untapped Potential” Global Education for a Sustainable Future Summit (Ge4). Trento, Italy. 2024.
  • “Behind the Curtains of Software Engineering” (School 42). Florence. 2024.
  • “Personal Research Agenda”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Sant'Anna). Pisa, Italy. 2023.
  • “Tackling Architectural Technical Debt”, Universität Zurich (UZH). Virtual. 2021.
  • “Lower Energy Acceleration Programme (LEAP) Technology Roadmap”, Groene Peper. Virtual. 2021.
  • “Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems”, Journal of Systems and Software Happy Hour, (JSS). Virtual. 2021.
  • “What to consider when talking about ATD?”, International Conference on Software Architecture, (ICSA). Virtual. 2021.
  • “Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction”. Google Journal Club . Virtual. 2019.
  • “Code Analysis Techniques for Architectural Technical Debt Identification”, Software Improvement Group (SIG): Global Headquarters. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2019.
  • “Building a Grounded Theory on Architectural Technical Debt”. TaskTop Technologies: Global Headquarters. Vancouver, Canada. 2019.
  • “Architectural Technical Debt: Personal Research Agenda”, University of British Columbia (UBC). Vancouver, Canada. 2019.
  • “FAST Approaches to Scalable Similarity-based Test Case Prioritization”, Gran Sasso Science Institute, (GSSI). L’Aquila, Italy. 2018.
  • “Static and Dynamic Analysis of Software Energy Efficiency”, KPMG: Global Headquarters. Amstelveen, The Netherlands. 2017

Presentations

  • “Learning to be Green: The Path to Sustainable Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems”, International Workshop on Quality of Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems (QuaLAS). Florence. 2023.
  • “Tracing the Footsteps of Technical Debt in Microservices: A Preliminary Case Study”, International Workshop on Quality in Software Architecture (QUALIFIER). Istanbul. 2023.
  • “Network Digital Twins: Towards a Future Proof Reference Architecture”, International Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch). Istanbul. 2023.
  • “Asking about Technical Debt: Characteristics and Automatic Identification of Technical Debt Questions on Stack Overflow”, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). Helsinki. 2022.
  • “ATDx: A tool for Providing a Data-driven Overview of Architectural Technical Debt in Software-intensive Systems”, European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA). Virtual. 2021.
  • “Summary: Building and evaluating a theory of architectural technical debt in software-intensive systems “, European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA). Virtual. 2021.
  • “Characterizing Technical Debt and Antipatterns in AI-Based Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study”, International Conference on Technical Debt, 2021. (TechDebt). Virtual. 2021.
  • “ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index”, 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE). Virtual. 2020.
  • “Architectural Technical Debt: A Grounded Theory”, European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA). Virtual. 2020.
  • “ATDx: Building an Architectural Technical Debt Index”, 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE). Virtual. 2020.
  • “Architectural Technical Debt: Taming the Beast”, 6th Dutch National Symposium on Software Engineering (SEN). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2020.
  • “Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction”, 41th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Montreal, Canada. 2019
  • “Guidelines for Architecting Android Apps: A mixed-method Empirical Study”, 16th International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). Hamburg, Germany. 2019.
  • Architectural Technical Debt Identification: The Research Landscape,1st International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt). Gothenburg, Sweden. 2018.
  • “FAST Approaches to Scalable Similarity-based Test Case Prioritization”, 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Gothenburg, Sweden. 2019.
  • “Identifying Architectural Technical Debt in Android Applications through Compliance Checking”, 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft). Gothenburg, Sweden. 2018.
  • “Empirical Evaluation of the Energy Impact of Refactoring Code Smells”, 5th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, (ICT4S). Toronto, Canada. 2018.
  • “Architectural Technical Debt: Moving Forward”, 15th International Conference on Software Architecture, (ICSA). Seattle, United States. 2018.
  • “Architectural Technical Debt Identification and Management”, 5th National Conference for ICT-Research in the Netherlands, (ICT.OPEN). Amersfoort. The Netherlands. 2018.
  • “Estimating Energy Impact of Software Releases and Deployment Strategies: The KPMG Case Study”, 11th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). Toronto, Canada. 2017.
  • “Empirical Assessment of Energy Efficiency of ORM Frameworks”, National Day for Sustainability in Higher Education, (NDDHO 2016). Breda. The Netherlands.

Media Appearances

  • “Big Tech’s Climate Goals At Risk From Massive AI Energy Demands”. Bloomberg. Online. 2024.
  • “Building and Evaluating a Theory of Architectural Technical Debt in Software-intensive Systems: A Discussion with Roberto Verdecchia”. New Books Network. Podcast. 2024.
  • “Will AI’s growth create an explosion of energy consumption?”. Physics Today. In print and online. 2024.
  • “Environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence: what are the possible solutions?”. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci. Online. 2024.
  • “A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country”. New York Times. In print and online. 2023.
  • “AI Is Ravenous for Energy. Can It Be Satisfied?”. The Wall Street Journal. Online. 2023.
  • “Generative AI’s Energy Problem Today is Foundational”. IEEE Spectrum. In print and online. 2023.
  • “Artificial intelligence training is powered mostly by fossil fuels”. New Scientist (Divulgative Scientific Magazine). Online. 2023.
  • “Green AI – An Energy-Saving Paradise Lost (So Far)”. 6Gworld (Specialized Magazine). Online. 2023.
  • “Geld nodig voor duurzame, digitale delta”. Translation: “Money needed for sustainable, digital delta”. Comutable (Specialized Dutch Magazine). Online. 2021.
  • “I geni italiani dell’informatica premiati da Facebook”. Translation: “The Italian geniuses of computer science awarded by Facebook”. La Repubblica (National Italian Newspaper). In print and online. 2019.
  • “Emilio e Roberto, i giovani ricercatori premiati da Facebook: “Grazie Italia per la formazione, ma ci costringi ad andare via”“. Translation: “Emilio and Roberto, the young researchers awarded by Facebook: “Thank you Italy for the training, but you are forcing us to leave”“, Open (Online Italian Newspaper). Online. 2019.

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