Tom Zimmermann

Current

• Researcher at Microsoft
• Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary

Past

• Assistant Professor at University of Calgary
• Research Assistant at Saarland University
• Research Intern at Microsoft Research

• Intern at Siemens
• Intern at Siemens

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Education

• Universität des Saarlandes
• Universität Passau

Connections

89 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Tom Zimmermann’s Summary

Researcher in the field of Software Engineering, focusing on software evolution, program analysis, and empirical studies.

Tom Zimmermann’s Specialties:

Mining software archives, software evolution, program analysis, data mining.

Tom Zimmermann’s Experience

• Researcher

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  University of Calgary

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Assistant Professor

  University of Calgary

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )

• Research Assistant

  Saarland University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

• Research Intern

  Microsoft Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

• Intern

  Siemens

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2002 — September 2002 (2 months)

• Intern

  Siemens

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — December 2001 (5 months)

Tom Zimmermann’s Education

• Universität des Saarlandes

  PhD , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008

  Dissertation titled "Changes and Bugs – Mining and Predicting Development Activities."

  Activities and Societies:

  DFG research training group on Performance Guarantees for Computer Systems

• Universität Passau

  Diploma , Computer Science , 1998 — 2004

  Diploma thesis titled "Mining Version Archives to Guide Software Change."

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE Student Branch

Additional Information

Tom Zimmermann’s Websites:

• My Website

Tom Zimmermann’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), German Informatics Society (GI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Laboratory for Software Modification Reuse.

•    Microsoft Employees
•    WASDeTT

Tom Zimmermann’s Honors:

ACM Distinguished Paper award at FSE 2008.
ACM Distinguished Paper award at ICSE 2007.
Best Student Paper award at ETX 2006.

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