Premkumar Thomas Devanbu#
| Membership Number: | 7452 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~devanbu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4346-5276 |
| X: | @devanbu |
| Bluesky: | @devanbu.bsky.social |
| Facebook: | https://facebook.com/prem.devanbu |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/premkumar-%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-devanbu-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81-ba7b3/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=tQ5vbOAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022,12 - present Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2023, 07 - 2023, 10 Visiting Scholar, University of Saarland, Germany
- 2023, 02 - 2023, 07 Visiting Scholar, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- 2021,07 - 2022, 11 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2005,07 - 2021,06 Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2000,07 - 2005,07, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
- 1998,01 - 2000,06, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
- 1995 - 1997, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Laboratories-Research, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 1984 - 1995, Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories-Research, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 1982 - 1984, Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Software quality
- Empirical software engineering
- Software repository mining
- Machine learning applications to software engineering
- Software engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2024, IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills Award, "For impactful contributions to the statistical modelling of source code and development practices, to improve software tools and processes"
- 2022, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award,
- 2018 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, "For contributions to using software data and meta-data to improve software tools and processes"
- 2021 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, "For profoundly changing the way researchers think about software by exploring connections between source code and natural language"
- 2022, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
- 2022 Most Influential Paper Award (for the paper "On the Naturalness of Software", published in ICSE 2012)
- 2021 ACM SIGSOFT ESEC FSE Test-of-Time Award (for paper "Don't Touch my Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality", published in 2011)
- 2019 ACM SIGSOFT ESEC FSE Test-of-Time Award (for paper "Fair & Balanced? Bias in Bug Fix Datasets", published in 2009)
- 2019 MSR (10-year) Most Influential Paper Award (for paper "Promises & Perils of Mining Git", published in 2009)
- 2018 ACM SIGSOFT ESEC FSE Test-of-Time Award (for paper "Latent Social Structure in Open Source Software Projects", published in 2008)
- 2016 MSR (10-year) Most Influential Paper Award (for paper "Mining Email Social Networks", published in 2006)
