I’m currently working as a Principal Expert for Empirical Software Engineering at SAP SE in Germany while maintaining an Adjunct Lecturer position at the University of Adelaide in Australia. You may also visit my LinkedIn profile.

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Sebastian Baltes is a Principal Expert for Empirical Software Engineering at SAP SE in Germany and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trier, Germany, in 2019. His work focuses on software analytics, i.e., processing, analyzing, and visualizing software engineering data to monitor, govern, and improve software development processes and tools. He is further interested in interdisciplinary research and methodological aspects of empirical software engineering. For him, thoroughly analyzing and understanding the state-of-practice is an essential first step towards improving how software is being developed. Dr. Baltes’ research has been published in leading software engineering venues, including ICSE, FSE, TSE, and EMSE. He was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award in 2020 and two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards. For more information, visit https://empirical-software.engineering.

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