Teaching

Invited talks and tutorials

2012	Speaker at Jazoon on Why you should care about software assessment
	Speaker at Jazoon on Demo-driven innovation
	Speaker at speakerconf on Humane assessment
2011	Invited speaker at GotoCon Aarhus on Humane assessment with Moose
	Speaker at Jazoon on Flexible software analysis with Moose
	Invited speaker at the SCRUM Breakfast, Bern on Daily assessment
	Invited speaker at the Agile Tour Lausanne on "Daily assessment: Integrating quality assurance in Scrum"
	Invited speaker at the SCRUM Breakfast, Zürich on Demo-driven innovation
	Invited speaker at the "Deep into Smalltalk" summer school, Lille on Parsing with PetitParser
	Invited speaker at the GTTSE Summer School (Generative & Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering), Braga on Tooling Research
2010	Invited keynote at the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2010) on Humane Assessment
	Invited keynote at the Benevol 2010 on Humane Assessment with Moose
	Invited speaker at the SCRUM Breakfast, Zürich on Enhancing agile development with software assessment
	Invited speaker at the SCRUM Breakfast Bern on Taking agile steps to improve the status quo
	Invited speaker at the Entwicklertag on The Humane Software Assessment
	Invited speaker at the Conférence Utilisateurs Cincom Smalltalk
	Invited speaker at the Swiss IT Intelligence Community Forum, Zurich on Software Assessment through Metrics and Beyond
	Invited speaker at the SCRUM Breakfast, Bern on enhancing agile development with software assessment
2009	Invited speaker at the CHOOSE Forum 2009 on The humane software assessment
	Keynote speaker at the European Smalltalk User Group Conference (ESUG 2009) on Scripting browsers in 15 minutes
	Invited CHOOSE Talk at the Univeristy of Zurich on Software assessment through exploration
	Invited speaker at /ch/open on Assessing software systems
	Invited speaker at Club Qualimetrie on What history can tell us and on The humane software assessment
2008	Tutorial on Pragmatic Design Quality Assessment, ICSE 2008 Tutorial: 8h
	Invited speaker on Presenting is storytelling at the European Smalltalk User Group Conference (ESUG 2008) and on How content should be managed with Pier
	Keynote speaker at SATTOSE 2007 on Collaborative and practical reverse engineering research with Moose
2005	Invited speaker at the CHOOSE Forum 2005 on Moose: an Extensible and Collaborative Reengineering Environment

Taught courses and labs

2012	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Zurich
2011	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Lugano
	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Zürich
	Software assessment at the University of Berne
2010	Formal methods in computer science (FGdI 2010) at the University of Zürich
	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Lugano
	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Zürich
2009	Software assessment in practice at Zürcher Fachhochschule
	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Lugano
	Presenting is storytelling at the University of Zürich
2008	Software Evolution Lecture at the University of Bern, Switzerland Lecture: 28h, Lab: 14h
	Invited lecturer on Presentation at the University of Lugano, Switzerland Lecture: 2 hours
	Invited lecturer on Presentation at the University of Bern, Switzerland Lecture: 2 hours
	Invited lecturer on Reverse engineering at Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Lecture: 2 hours
	Invited lecturer on Modeling History at Evol@Mons 2008 (Research Seminar on Software Evolution) Lecture: 2 hours
	Invited lecturer on Software Visualization at UniversitÃ© catholique de Louvain (UCL) Lecture: 2 hours
2007	Invited lecturer on Reverse Engineering (video 1, video 2) at Hasso Plattner-Institut, Potsdam Lecture: 4 hours
	Invited lecturer on Meta in practice (video) at Hasso Plattner-Institut, Potsdam Lecture: 2 hours
	Lecturer and assistant for Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns OORP is a master course in Computer Science at the University of Berne. Lab: 14 hours; Lecture: 10 hours
	Invited lecturer on Software Visualization at the Politehnica University of Timisoara Lecture: 3 hours
2006	Tutorial on Reengineering at the University of Annecy The tutorial was held for 7 senior researchers. Lab and lecture: 40 hours
	Invited lecturer on Reverse Engineering at the University of Annecy Lecture: 4 hours
2003 - 2006	Assitstant for Software Engineering ESE is a course for students in the 3rd semester of study in Computer Science at the University of Berne. Lab: 14 hours / year; Lecture: 4 hours
2004	Assistant for Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns OORP was a course for students in the 5th semester of study in Computer Science at the University of Berne. Lab: 4 hours; Lecture: 2 hours
2003	Assistant for Programming Languages PL was a course for the students in the 4th semester of study in Computer Science at the University of Berne. Lab: 10 hours
2002	Co-author of LOOSE Software Engineering Lab SE is a course for students in the 4th year of study in Computer Science at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. Lab: 30 hours

Supervised master students

2009	Francois Stephany. On the Analysis of Communication Patterns in Open Source Software Development. Supervisors: Tudor Girba and Tom Mens
	Philipp Bunge. Scripting Browsers with Glamour. The work of Philipp’s thesis resulted in the construction of Glamour, which obtained the 3rd prize at the ESUG 2009 Innovation Awards. Supervisor: Tudor Girba and Lukas Renggli
2008	Matthias Junker. Kumpel: Visual Exploration of File Histories. Supervisor: Tudor Girba
	Andrea Bruehlmann. Enriching Reverse Engineering with Annotations. (2007-2008) Supervisor: Tudor Girba
2007	Adrian Dozsa. Reverse Engineering Techniques for Lisp Systems. (2007). Supervisors: Tudor Girba and Radu Marinescu
	Stefan Reichhart. Assessing Test Quality - TestLint. (2006-2007). Supervisors: Stephane Ducasse and Tudor Girba
2006	Michael Meyer. Scripting Interactive Visualizations. (2006). The work of Michael’s thesis resulted in the construction of Mondrian, which obtained the 2nd prize at the ESUG 2006 Innovation Awards. Supervisor: Tudor Girba.
	Mihai Balint. How Developers Copy. (2005-2006). Supervisors: Tudor Girba and Radu Marinescu
	Violeta Voinescu. Supporting Reverse Engineering with Meta-Annotations. (2005-2006). Supervisors: Tudor Girba and Radu Marinescu
	Adrian Kuhn. Semantic Clustering: Making Use of Linguistic Information to Reveal Concepts in Source Code. (2005-2006). Supervisors: Tudor Girba
	Mauricio Seeberger. How Developers Drive Software Evolution. (2005-2006). Supervisor(s): Tudor Girba
2005	Markus Kobel. Parsing by Example. (2005). Supervisor(s): Oscar Nierstrasz, Horst Bunke, Tudor Girba and Michele Lanza
2004	Thomas Buehler. Detecting and Visualizing Phases in Software Evolution. (2004). Supervisor(s): Michele Lanza, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz
	Mircea Lungu. Conformity Strategies: Measures Of Software Design Rules. (2004). Supervisor(s): Tudor Girba and Radu Marinescu
2003	Ratiu Daniel. Time-Based Detection Strategies. (2003). Supervisor(s): Tudor Girba and Radu Marinescu

Supervised bachelor students

2007	Lucas Streit. Basil - Scripting Flash from Smalltalk. (2007). Supervisor: Tudor Girba
	Markus Hofstetter, Matthias Junker. Scripting Diagrams with EyeSee. (2006-2007). Supervisor: Tudor Girba EyeSee obtained the 2nd prize at the ESUG 2007 Innovation Awards.
2006	Philipp Bunge. Shrew - A Prototype for Subversion Analysis. (2006). Supervisor: Tudor Girba
	Marc Mooser. Parsing Ada. (2006). Supervisor: Tudor Girba
	David Gurtner. Importing JSP into Moose. (2006). Supervisor: Tudor Girba
2005	Michael Meyer. Merlin: a Continuous Integration Tool for VisualWorks. (2005). Supervisor(s): Tudor Girba
	Michael Meer. A Generic Clustering Framework for Moose. (2005). Supervisor: Tudor Girba
	Marc Stettler. Moose Domain Generator. (2005). Supervisors: Stephane Ducasse and Tudor Girba

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My view on teaching

I believe teaching is about catalyzing the experience, and not about transmitting predefined pieces of information.

I advocate that teaching is most effective in an environment that mimics the real world, and that challenges the students to deal with simulated situations.

A successful environment is one that makes explicit as many variables of the problem under study as possible. In such an environment, the goal is to let the students decide the course of action based on the given stimuli and then to discuss the different alternatives.

I believe supervision is a particular form of teaching, in which the difference between the supervisor and the student can be much diluted, and can be transformed into a fruitful collaboration.

As a supervisor I aim to challenge the student’s assumptions, and to put my ideas in competition with his ideas. My ultimate goal is to have the student create something I would not have.