Gabriele Bavota

AI + SE Seminar Series (May 22 2025. 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

Who’s Really in Control? Human–AI Collaboration in Software Engineering

In this talk, I will share findings from two recent studies investigating the effects of AI assistance on code writing and code review. Our results shed some light on the trade-offs involved in adopting AI tools, highlighting the hidden costs that may accompany the apparent gains in productivity.

Bio

Gabriele Bavota is a full professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, where he is part of the Software Institute and he leads the SEART research group. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2013. His research interests include AI for software engineering, software maintenance and evolution, code quality, mining software repositories, and empirical software engineering. On these topics, he authored over 200 papers appeared in international journals and conferences and has received four ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper awards at the three top software engineering conferences: ASE 2013 and 2017, ESEC-FSE 2015, and ICSE 2015. He also received eleven additional best/distinguished paper awards at other conferences. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Sigsoft Early Career Researcher Award for outstanding contributions in the area of software engineering as an early career investigator and has been the principal investigator of the DEVINTA ERC Starting Grant.

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