10-Year Most Influential Paper Interview Series

Brilliant ideas do not just shape a single conference—they shape the future of our field.

As we approach the ICPE 2027 submission deadline, we are catching up with the researchers who shaped the field.

  • Juan Pablo Sandoval

    2026 Most Influential Paper

    “Learning from Source Code History to Identify Performance Failures”

    Juan P. Sandoval is now an Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago de Chile. His research mainly focuses on how software can automatically assess and optimize its own behavior under uncertainty.

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  • Diego Didona

    2025 Most Influential Paper

    “Enhancing Performance Prediction Robustness by Combining Analytical Modeling and Machine Learning”

    Diego Didona is now a research engineer in the Von Neumann Research Center of Huawei in Zurich, Switzerland. His research mainly focuses on accelerating inference for LLM and video generation workloads on the Huawei Ascend NPU chips.

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  • Diego Perez

    2024 Most Influential Paper

    “Uncertainties in the Modeling of Self-Adaptive Systems: A Taxonomy and an Example of Availability Evaluation”

    Diego Perez is now an Associate Professor at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. His research mainly focuses on how software can automatically assess and optimize its own behavior under uncertainty.

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  • Nikolas Herbst

    2023 Most Influential Paper

    “Self-adaptive workload classification and forecasting for proactive resource provisioning”

    Nikolas Herbst is now working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg at the Chair of Computer Science II. He served program committee co-chair for the ICPE in 2022. Moreover, he is active in the SPEC Research group as elected member of the steering committee and vice-chair of the Cloud working group, here co-organizing multiple editions of the HotCloudPerf ICPE workshop series.

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  • Sadeka Islam

    2022 Most Influential Paper

    “How a Consumer can Measure Elasticity for Cloud Platforms”

    Sadeka Islam is now working in the Applied AI/ML area at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She focuses on building AI systems that are reliable, secure, useful, and efficient in terms of cost and performance. Her day-to-day work involves understanding business problems and requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, and developing and evaluating solutions, including testing, peer reviews, and deployment.

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  • Catia Trubiani

    2021 Most Influential Paper

    “Detection and solution of software performance antipatterns in palladio architectural models”

    Catia Trubiani is now an associate professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. Her research includes software performance, software reliability, software architectures, and model-based software testing. Recently, she has applied her research to federated learning, cyber-physical, and multi-agent systems.

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  • Anne Koziolek

    2020 Most Influential Paper

    “Automatically Improve Software Architecture Models for Performance, Reliability, and Cost Using Evolutionary Algorithms”

    Anne Koziolek is now a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KASTEL) and leads the “Modelling for Continuous Software Engineering” research group. Her day-to-day work involves collaborating with her PhD students, serving as dean of studies, writing proposals, and doing academic community service. Recently, she served as a PC co-chair at ICSA 2026.

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