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Diomidis Spinellis is Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Management Science and Technology heading the Business Analytics Laboratory (BALab) at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and Professor of Software Analytics in the Department of Software Technology at the Delft University of Technology. He also runs a popular edX MOOC on the use of Unix tools for data, software and production engineering. His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and computing systems. He has written two award-winning, widely-translated books: Code Reading and Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. His most recent book is Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems. Diomidis has published more than 350 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than 16,000 citations. His service on the editorial board of the IEEE Software magazine includes authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade” column (2005–2014), serving as the Editor-in-Chief (2014–2018), and authoring the new regular “Adventures in Code” column (2023–). He has contributed code that ships with Apple’s macOS and BSD Unix and is the developer of CScout, Alexandria3k, ai-cli-lib, git-issue, dgsh, and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. He also hosts on GitHub the popular Unix history and LaTeX advice repositories. He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Imperial College London. Diomidis has served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013–2015), and is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.
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