New University: I have joined the University of Colorado at Boulder starting with January, 2020. I am grateful for 6 wonderful years at OSU in Corvallis. I am committed to lead the joint Colorado/OSU PPI Center from Boulder, CO.

Serving Industry: If you are working in industry on AI/ML for IoT systems, I would love to schedule a discovery session to learn how we can serve you with our upcoming NSF industry-university consortium.

SHORT BIO
Danny Dig is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, and an adjunct professor at University of Illinois and Oregon State. He enjoys doing research in Software Engineering, with a focus on interactive program transformations that improve programmer productivity and software quality. He successfully pioneered interactive program transformations by opening the field of refactoring in cutting-edge domains including mobile, concurrency and parallelism, component-based, testing, and end-user programming. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where his research won the best Ph.D. dissertation award, and the First Prize at the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. He did a postdoc at MIT.

He (co-)authored 50+ journal and conference papers that appeared in top places in SE/PL. According to Google Scholar his publications have been cited 4000+ times. His research was recognized with 8 best paper awards at the flagship and top conferences in SE (FSE'17, ICSME'17, FSE'16, ICSE'14, ISSTA'13, ICST'13, ICSME'15), 4 award runner-ups, and 1 most influential paper award (N-10 years) at ICSME'15. He received the NSF CAREER award, the Google Faculty Research Award (twice), and the Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Award (twice). He released 9 software systems, among them the world's first open-source refactoring tool. Some of the techniques he developed are shipping with the official release of the popular Eclipse, NetBeans, and Visual Studio development environments (of which Eclipse alone had more than 14M downloads in 2014). He has started two popular workshops: Workshop on Refactoring Tools, and Hot Topics On Software Upgrades, both had at least five instances. He chaired or co-organized 14 workshops and 1 conference (MobileSoft'15), and served as a member of 35 program committees for all top conferences in his area. His research is funded by NSF, Boeing, IBM, Intel, Google, and Microsoft.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Successful software undergoes constant change. My research addresses two important questions:

1. What changes occur most often in practice?
2. How can we automate them to improve programmers' productivity and software quality?

General interests:- automated refactoring, interactive program analysis and transformation, design & architectural patterns, and broadly interested in concurrency and parallelism, mobile computing, software development processes, program analysis, software testing, and software evolution

Research Impact:

• our research on detecting async errors in .NET programs now ships with the official release of Microsoft Visual Studio
• my ICSM'05 paper wins the Most Influential Paper Award (N-10 years) at ICSME'15. The citation reads "The ICSM'05 paper has had the most impact and has stood the test of time best, it has had a profound influence on the upcoming field of API analysis."
• our refactorings that empower Java programmers to use lambda expressions are shipping with the official release of the NetBeans IDE.
• PhD research on record-and-replay of API-level refactoring ships with the official release of the Eclipse IDE and are used by millions of Java developers.
• the automatic inference of refactorings has been used at large companies like Google and IBM, and dozens of research labs.
• our ASTGen test generation framework is used in the testing infrastructure at Oracle.
• empirical studies (one and two) on usage of concurrent libraries have influenced the development of the official libraries in .NET and Java.
• our resource on learning parallelism in .NET receives more than 150,000 visitors.
• many years ago I developed the world's first open-source refactoring engine for Java, and was downloaded over 17,000 times.

NEWS:

• Jan 2020: I will join the University of Colorado Boulder as Associate Professor and Director of the PPI Center. Thank you OSU and colleagues for 6 wonderful years in Corvallis.
• Oct 2019: Inspiring our CoE students to grow personally and professionally. I am inspired myself by our engaged industry partners and how dedicated they are to the students' success.
• Oct 2019: I am honored to receive the Best Reviewer Award at the ICSME'19 conference. Our community is strong because we help each other.
• June 2019: Many thanks to the mentors and the 30 faculty that made the ICSE'19 Faculty Mentorship Roundtables a big success. Our community is strong because of people dedicated to help others grow.
• May 2019: Honored to deliver a keynote at TechDebt'19.
• Nov 2018: I am fortunate to work with great students like Ameya Ketkar who wins the Second Prize at the ACM SIGSOFT Student Research Competition at FSE'18.
• Oct 2018: Thank you to all participants that ensured a succesful Planning Workshop for establishing a new NSF IUCRC on Pervasive Personalized Intelligence.
• April 2017: Congratulations to my PhD student, Michael Hilton, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will join the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University
• March 2017: I am honored to be invited as the keynote speaker at GPCE'17
• Sept 2016: Teaching a webinar on Refactoring for Mobile Devices hosted by the Technology Association of Oregon.
• Sept 2016: I am honored to be invited as a keynote speaker at the International Workshop on Refactoring in Singapore

SELECTED AWARDS

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FSE'17 for this paper.
• IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME'17 for this paper.
• ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Artifact Award at OOPSLA'17 for this paper
• Google Faculty Research Award (twice: in 2017 and 2015)
• IBM Best Paper Award at HICSS'17 for this paper.
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FSE'16 for this paper
• 2016 NSF CAREER Award
• Most Influential Paper Award (N-10 years) at ICSME'15 for this paper from ICSM'05
• Best Paper Award at ICSME'15 for this paper
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE'14 for this paper
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA'13 for this paper
• Best Paper Award at ICST'13 for this paper
• Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation award, twice: in 2011 and 2013
• Best PhD Thesis Award from the CS department at UIUC (and also department-nominated for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
• 1st Prize at inter-disciplinary Grand Finals of ACM Student Research Competition, 2006
• 1st Prize at ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition, held at OOPSLA'05

LEADERSHIP and SERVICE:

• Program Committee: ICSE'20, ICSE'19, ICSME'19, ICSE'17, ICSE'16 (Visions 2025 Track), ASE'15, ICSE'15 (NIER track), ASE'14, OOPSLA'13, ECOOP'13, ASE'13, IPDPS'13, ICSM'13, ICSE'13 (NIER track), FSE'12, OOPSLA'12 (ERC), ECOOP'12 (ERC), ICSM'12, MSEPT'12, WRT'12, CSMR'12, ISSTA'11, PPoPP'11 (ERC), ACM Student Research Competition at ICSE'11, Research Demos @ FSE'10, IWPSE'10, OOPSLA'09, IWMSE'09, IWPSE'09, WRT'09, HotSWUp'09
• Proceedings Chair: OOPSLA'13
• Co-Chair: MobileSoft'15, HotSWUp'12, WRT'11, WRT'08, HotSWUp'08
• Publicity Chair: ICSM'10.
• Chair: Doctoral Symposium @ ECOOP'07, WRT'07, PLoP'04

MOTTO "Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who choose" - John Maxwell