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Co-Editor In Chief of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. AAAS Fellow. ACM Fellow. IEEE Fellow.</p> 187 188 <p>Publications: <a href="https://dblp.org/pid/19/3622-1.html">DBLP</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5zvbpooAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a>. 189 Pre‑prints: <a href="https://arxiv.org/a/zimmermann_t_1.html">ArXiv.org</a></p> 190 <p>Orcid: 0000-0003-4905-1469</p> 191 <p>Email: [email protected]</p> 192 </div> 193 194 </div> 195 196 <div class="author__urls-wrapper"> 197 <button class="btn btn--inverse">Follow</button> 198 <ul class="author__urls social-icons"> 199 200 201 202 203 204 <li><a href="https://twitter.com/tomzimmermann" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="label">Twitter</span></a></li> 205 206 207 208 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomzimmermann" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-linkedin" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="label">LinkedIn</span></a></li> 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 <!-- 262 <li> 263 <a href="https://dblp.org/pid/19/3622-1.html" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> 264 <i class="fab fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="label">DBLP</span> 265 </a> 266 </li> 267 268 <li> 269 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5zvbpooAAAAJ" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> 270 <i class="fab fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="label">Google Scholar</span> 271 </a> 272 </li> 273 274 <li> 275 <a href="https://arxiv.org/a/zimmermann_t_1.html" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> 276 <i class="fab fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="label">
276ArXiv.org</span> 277 </a> 278 </li> 279--> 280 281 </ul> 282 </div> 283</div> 284 285 286 </div> 287 288 289 290 <article class="page" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork"> 291 292 293 294 295 296 <div class="page__inner-wrap"> 297 298 <header> 299 300 301 302 303 </header> 304 305 306 <section class="page__content" itemprop="text"> 307 308 <p>Welcome to my personal homepage!</p> 309 310<h3 id="news">News</h3> 311 312<p>Spring 2025: Honored to receive the ESEC/FSE Test of Time Award for the 2015 paper <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2786805.2786809">How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research</a></p> 313 314<p>April 2025: Honored to receive an IEEE Software Distinguished SEIP Paper Award for the ICSE 2025 paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15287">Time Warp: The Gap Between Developersâ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era</a></p> 315 316<p>March 2025: Honored to be recognized as a <a href="https://ics.uci.edu/2025/03/27/two-ics-professors-among-five-uc-irvine-researchers-named-aaas-fellows/">AAAS Fellow</a> for âdistinguished contributions to the field of software engineering, particularly in mining software repositories, defect prediction, and developer productivity and experience through innovative empirical research.â</p> 317 318<p>January 2025: After 16 unforgettable years at Microsoft, I am excited to start a new position as Chancellorâs Professor and Bren Chair at the University of California, Irvine. My new contact email is [email protected]</p> 319 320<p>September 2024: The slides for my keynote at MODELS 2024 are online: <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/tomzimmermann/the-lord-of-the-models-the-fellowship-of-trust-in-ai">The Fellowship of Trust in AI</a></p> 321 322<p>July 2024: The slides for my keynote at FSE 2024 are online: <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/tomzimmermann/the-incredible-machine-developer-productivity-and-the-impact-of-ai-on-productivity">The Incredible Machine 3: Developer Productivity and the Impact of AI</a></p> 323 324<h3 id="publications">Publications</h3> 325 326<p>For my publications, please visit my <a href="https://dblp.org/pid/19/3622-1.html">DBLP entry</a> or <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5zvbpooAAAAJ">Google Scholar profile</a>. For pre-prints, please visit <a href="https://arxiv.org/a/zimmermann_t_1.html">ArXiv.org page</a>. 327If you need copies of any of my papers, please send me an email! I am very happy to send you copies of my papers!</p> 328 329<h3 id="talks">Talks</h3> 330 331<p>For a selected list of presentations, please visit my <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/tomzimmermann">Speaker Deck profile</a> (talks since 2014) or my <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tom.zimmermann/slideshows">SlideShare profile</a> (talks until 2013).</p> 332 333<h3 id="books">Books</h3> 334 335<p>I have co-edited several books, most recently <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6">Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering</a>, a free open access e-book (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Productivity-Software-Engineering-Sadowski-ebook/dp/B07RHXW6T7">get the book on Amazon.com</a>).</p> 336 337<p><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6"><img width="140px" height="200px" src="assets/images/9781484242209.jpg" alt="Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering" /></a> 338<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Perspectives-Data-Science-Software-Engineering-dp-0128042060/dp/0128042060"><img width="162px" height="200px" src="assets/images/9780128042618_750px.jpg" alt="Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering" /></a> 339<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Analyzing-Software-Data-dp-0124115195/dp/0124115195"><img width="162px" height="200px" src="assets/images/9780124115439_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" alt="The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data" /></a> 340<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-45135-5"><img width="126px" height="200px" src="assets/images/9783642451348_p0_v3_s600x595.jpg" alt="Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering" /></a></p> 341 342 343 </section> 344 345 <footer class="page__meta"> 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 </footer> 353 354 355 356 357 </div> 358 359 360 </article> 361 362 363 364</div> 365 366 </div> 367 368 369 370 <div id="footer" class="page__footer"> 371 <footer> 372 <!-- start custom footer snippets --> 373 374<!-- end custom footer snippets --> 375 <div class="page__footer-follow"> 376 <ul class="social-icons"> 377 378 379 380 381 382 <li><a href="https://twitter.com/tomzimmermann" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square" aria-hidden="true"></i> Twitter</a></li> 383 384 385 386 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomzimmermann" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-linkedin" aria-hidden="true"></i> LinkedIn</a></li> 387 388 389 390 391 <li><a href="/feed.xml"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-rss-square" aria-hidden="true"></i> Feed</a></li> 392 </ul> 393</div> 394 395<div class="page__footer-copyright">© 2025 Thomas Zimmermann. 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