Tom Zimmermann
Chancellor S Professor And Bren Chair at UC Irvine
Newport Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Zimmermann is a distinguished researcher and engineering leader focused on applying data science, machine learning, and empirical software engineering to improve how developers and organizations build software. With over 15 years in the field, 100+ publications cited more than 30,000 times, and honors including ACM and IEEE Fellowships plus the IEEE CS McCluskey Award, he blends deep academic rigor with practical product impact. His pioneering work on mining software repositories has influenced tools and teams at Microsoft—contributing to Visual Studio, GitHub, and Xbox—and now shapes research and education as Chancellor’s Professor and Bren Chair at UC Irvine. Tom is driven by a mission to embed AI into developer workflows, and his career uniquely bridges large-scale industry R&D and reproducible empirical studies that surface real-world developer behavior.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesDiploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Universität Passau
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Github Skills (11)
open-science8
reproducible-research8
data-science8
reproducible-science7
biometrics7
macos3
windows3
game-theory2
biology1
science1
analytics1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
msrconf/msrconf
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 4 months
msrconf/msrconf.github.io
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:68 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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