Antonio Vetrò

PhD, Empirical Software Engineer

Antonio Vetrò is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Control Engineering, at Politecnico di Torino.

He serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society and at THESEUS Center on Technology, Society and Humanity.

Antonio is member of the international committee ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7/WG6 Software and System Engineering - Software Product and System Quality and of the Italian Software Engineering Committee at UNINFO (delegated at ISO for standardisation in information technologies).

Background and current activities
Antonio is specialized in empirical methodologies for software engineering, with a focus on software and data quality improvement. He also conducts interdisciplinary studies on the relationship between digital technologies and society. Relying on both approaches, he is currently studying how to detect and mitigate potential discriminations deriving from biases in the data and in the algorithms of automated decision systems.
He teaches in several master courses at Politecnico di Torino, including "Responsible Artificial Intelligence", "Data Ethics and Data Protection", "Software Engineering 2", "Business information systems".

publications

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Experience

April 2018 - September 2021. Senior researcher and adjunct member of the scientific board at Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL) of Politecnico di Torino.
November 2015 - August 2017. Director of Research at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
September 2017 - January 2018. Research Programs Manager at ORS group.
September 2013 - August 2015. Post-doctoral research fellow in the Software and System Engineering Department at the Technische Universität München (Germany)
April 2011 - November 2011. junior scientist at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (MD, USA)

Antonio holds a PhD in Information and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), obtained working at the Software Engineering Research Group (Softeng, at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering) with a doctoral thesis on the empirical assessment of the impact of static code analysis on software quality.

Antonio has also volunteered in several development cooperation projects in Bosnia i Herzegovina, Kenya, India and as well in local communities in Italy.