Every spring and fall students from leading technical universities across Europe head to another institution in the ATHENS network to take part in a one week intensive course on a topic of their choice. This March was the second time I had the opportunity to take part in this program. Two years ago I went to Télécom ParisTech to explore how information can be extracted from unstructured data sources such as the Wikipedia. I published a short writeup of that here.

This time around, I went to Technical University of Delft to look into how Data Science can be used to improve Software Engineering. The course was taught by Alberto Bacchelli who is SNFS Professor of Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Zurich and came back to TU Delft to teach two courses during ATHENS week. He is one of the leading figures in the field of Data Science in Software Engineering (also called Empirical Software Engineering) and has a ton of relevant publications.

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