Informal research statement:

• I love programming. I think programming can be challenging, interesting and satisfying. In practice, however, programming tasks prove far too often to be boring, error-prone and frustrating. In my research I aim to help improve the environment in which software is developed in a way that will make a programmer's life easier and will eliminate some of the causes of frustration. In turn, this will hopefully lead to improved programmers' productivity and increased software quality.

Software development:

• programming languages: design, implementation and evolution
• environment and tools: language aware editors, refactoring tools
• process: software evolution, agile methodologies, programmers' productivity

Source code analysis and manipulation:

• control-flow analysis
• dataflow analysis
• program slicing
• whole program (interprocedural) analysis
• source-to-source transformations

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