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Marcus, Andrian

Dr. Andrian Marcus

Professor

Degrees:

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Kent State University, 2003
  • M.Sc., Computer Science, The University of Memphis, 2000
  • M.A., History, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1996
  • B.Sc., Computer Science, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1995

Research Interests:

  • Software Engineering
  • Software Evolution and Maintenance
  • Program Comprehension

Major Honors and Awards:

  • NSF CAREER Award 2009
  • Most Influential Paper Award – from the 11th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2004), awarded in 2014
  • Received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for his work on the at the 2019 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) for his work done on the research paper, “Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports”
  • Best Paper Award – at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2007), Banff, Canada, June 26-29
  • Best Paper Award – at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2006), Athens, Greece, June 14-17
  • Best Dissertation Paper Award – at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2004), Chicago, IL, September 11-17, 2004
  • Fulbright research fellowship 1997-1998

Representative Publications:

  • Moreno, L., Bavota, G., Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., “How can I use this method?”, in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2015), Florence, Italy, May 20-22, 2015.

  • Moreno, L., Bavota, G., Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., Marcus, A., Canfora, G., “Automatic Generation of Release Notes”, in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014), Hong Kong, 2014, pp: 484-495.

  • Haiduc, S., Bavota, G., Marcus, A., Oliveto, R., De Lucia, A., Menzies, T., “Automatic Query Reformulations for Text Retrieval in Software Engineering”, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2013), San Francisco, USA, May 22-24, 2013, pp. 842-851.

  • Menzies, T., Butcher, A., Cok, D., Marcus, A., Layman, L., Shull, F., Turhan, B., Zimmermann, T., “Local vs Global Lessons for Defect Prediction and Effort Estimation”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 39(6), pp. 822-834.

  • Haiduc, S., Bavota, G., Oliveto, R., De Lucia, A., Marcus, A., “Automatic Query Performance Assessment during the Retrieval of Software Artifacts”, in Proceedings of 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany, September 3-7, 2012, pp. 90-99.

Notable Service:

  • Editorial Board member – IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • Editorial Board member – Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), Springer
  • Editorial Board member – Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP), John Wiley and Sons
  • General Chair – 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2011)
  • Program Co-Chair – 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2010)
  • Program Co-Chair – 27th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2009)
  • Steering Committee Member for the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) for 2005-2008, 2011-2014 (Chair of the Steering Committee 2012-14)
  • Steering Committee Member for the IEEE Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT) – (2005-2009)

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