Rate My Professor Federica Sarro

Federica Sarro is Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where she heads the Software Systems Engineering group and leads the Software Optimisation Learning and Analytics Research (SOLAR) team, which she established in 2019. From 2014 to 2018, she led the UCL App Store Analysis (UCLappA) research team, the first in the UK dedicated to app store analysis for software engineering, culminating in the spin-out company Appredict Ltd., which she directs as company director. She earned her PhD in Systems and Software Engineering from the University of Salerno in 2013. Her research specializations encompass predictive analytics for software engineering, search-based software engineering, and empirical software engineering, with focuses on software project management, development effort estimation, defect prediction, software testing, and app store analytics. She has co-authored more than 70 publications in premier venues including ICSE, FSE, TSE, and TOSEM, garnering over 7,450 citations, an h-index of 44, and i10-index of 118. Key publications include "Multi-objective software effort estimation" (ICSE 2016), "A survey of app store analysis for software engineering" (TSE 2017), and "Customer rating reactions can be predicted purely using app features" (RE 2018).