Harald Gall#
| Membership Number: | 6252 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/seal/people/gall.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3874-5628 |
| Linkedin: | https://linkedin.com/in/haraldgall |
Present and Previous Positions
- 8/2012 - present Dean, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (UZH)
- 2009 - present Full Professor in Software Engineering, UZH
- 2008 - 7/2012 Vice-Dean and Program Director in Informatics, UZH
- 2004 - 2009 Associate Professor in Software Engineering, UZH, Switzerland
- 2000 - 2004 Associate Professor, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- 1/2000 Habilitation in “Angewandte Informatik”, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- 1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- 1993 Dr. techn. (PhD) in Informatics, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- 1986 - 1990 Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) in Informatics, Technical University Vienna, Austria
- 2008/6-7, 2009/6-7, 2018/6-8 Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
- 2010/6-7 Visiting Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Engineering
- Software engineering with emphasis on software data analytics
- Empirical software engineering
- Software quality analysis
- Software architecture
- Cloud-based software
- Mining software repositories
- Software evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Test of Time Award, “Don't touch my code! Examining the effects of ownership on software quality”, Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE, 2011)
- 2019 Test of Time Award, “Cross-project Defect Prediction: a Large Scale Experiment on Data vs. Domain vs. Process,” Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE)
- 2013 Most Influential Paper Award 2013, “Populating a release history database from version control and bug tracking systems," International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
- 2012 Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundations Award (SEIF), awarded for “Collaborative Quality Assessment for Software” by Microsoft
- 2009 ACM CACM Research highlight, “Does distributed development affect software quality?: an empirical case study of Windows Vista,” featured in Communications of the ACM
- 1994 Software Engineering Award for best PhD thesis, German Informatics Society
