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Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Grzegorz Blinowski
Warsaw University of Technology
2
Jason Blocklove
New York University
3
Chico Sundermann
Universität Ulm
4
Muhammad Waseem
Tampere University
5
Antonio Mastropaolo
University of Aosta Valley
6
David Mapelsden
University of Auckland
7
Tomasz Górski
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
8
Mehmet Söylemez
Hacettepe University
9
Fiorella Zampetti
University of Sannio
10
Jia Li
Peking University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Design pattern modelling and instantiation using DPML
Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)|2024
118 cit.
2
Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Code Generation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology|2024
101 cit.
3
Evaluating Code Summarization Techniques: A New Metric and an Empirical Characterization
Unknown Journal|2024
28 cit.
4
<scp>AceCoder</scp> : An Effective Prompting Technique Specialized in Code Generation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology|2024
24 cit.
5
ChatGPT as a Software Development Bot: A Project-Based Study
Unknown Journal|2024
22 cit.
6
Exploring the problems, their causes and solutions of AI pair programming: A study on GitHub and Stack Overflow
Journal of Systems and Software|2024
22 cit.
7
Smart Contract Design Pattern for Processing Logically Coherent Transaction Types
Applied Sciences|2024
18 cit.
8
Evaluating LLMs for Hardware Design and Test
Unknown Journal|2024
17 cit.
9
Containerization in multi-cloud environment: Roles, strategies, challenges, and solutions for effective implementation
Journal of Systems and Software|2025
16 cit.
10
Collecting Feature Models from the Literature: A Comprehensive Dataset for Benchmarking
Unknown Journal|2024
15 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Stefan Tilkov
Inno (Germany)
2
Joel Krajewski
University of Vienna
3
Casey Rosenthal
Netflix (United States)
4
Lina Zou
Qufu Normal University
5
Adam Przybyłek
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
6
Hui Mien Tee
University of Auckland
7
Guido Steinacker
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
8
Hammond Pearce
UNSW Sydney
9
Federico Quin
KU Leuven
10
Gabriele Bavota
Università della Svizzera italiana

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)|2022
375 cit.
2
Monolithic vs. Microservice Architecture: A Performance and Scalability Evaluation
IEEE Access|2022
238 cit.
3
Chip-Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design
Unknown Journal|2023
187 cit.
4
Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2023
178 cit.
5
Using pre-trained models to boost code review automation
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering|2022
153 cit.
6
On the Robustness of Code Generation Techniques: An Empirical Study on GitHub Copilot
Unknown Journal|2023
126 cit.
7
Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2023
106 cit.
8
A/B testing: A systematic literature review
Journal of Systems and Software|2024
68 cit.
9
On Hardware Security Bug Code Fixes by Prompting Large Language Models
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security|2024
66 cit.
10
Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering|2022
65 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Mylopoulos
University of Toronto
2
Chris F. Kemerer
University of Pittsburgh
3
David Garlan
Carnegie Mellon University
4
Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology
5
Jeff Magee
Washington University in St. Louis
6
Eric Yu
Universidad Católica Santo Domingo
7
Axel van Lamsweerde
UCLouvain
8
Betty H. C. Cheng
Michigan State University
9
Gunter Saake
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
10
Krzysztof Czarnecki
University of Waterloo

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A metrics suite for object oriented design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering|1994
5.7k cit.
2
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems|2004
1.7k cit.
3
Goal-oriented requirements engineering: a guided tour
Unknown Journal|2002
1.7k cit.
4
Towards modelling and reasoning support for early-phase requirements engineering
Unknown Journal|2002
1.6k cit.
5
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Unknown Journal|1995
1.4k cit.
6
A formal basis for architectural connection
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology|1997
1.2k cit.
7
Representing and using nonfunctional requirements: a process-oriented approach
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering|1992
1k cit.
8
Rainbow: architecture-based self-adaptation with reusable infrastructure
Computer|2004
992 cit.
9
Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches
IBM Systems Journal|2006
973 cit.
10
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM|1987
903 cit.

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