Diomidis Spinellis
— @CollSWeng on Twitter —
is a Professor in the
Department of Management Science and Technology
at the
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece.
His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and
cloud systems engineering.
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.
Dr.
Spinellis has also published
more than 300 technical papers in journals
and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than
9000 citations.
He served for a decade as a member of the
IEEE Software
editorial board,
authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade”
column, and
as the magazine's Editor-in-Chief over the period 2015–2018.
He has contributed code that ships with Apple’s macOS and BSD Unix and
is the developer of git-issue,
CScout,
UMLGraph,
dgsh, and
other open-source software packages,
libraries, and tools.
He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science,
both from Imperial College London.
Dr. Spinellis is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.
In a previous life he was four times winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
Nowadays he tries to keep his code boring.