Sabato Nocera


Ph.D. Student

About

Biographical Sketch

Sabato Nocera was born in Mercato San Severino, Italy, on April 25, 1998. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in September 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Michele Risi. In September 2022, he received his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the same university, under the supervision of Prof. Rita Francese, Prof. Simone Romano, and Prof. Giuseppe Scanniello. Sabato started his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of Salerno in November 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Rita Francese and Prof. Simone Romano. His research interests are mainly in Empirical Software Engineering and involve Software Security and Software Supply Chain. Since 2021, he has been a Teaching Assistant for the Software Technologies for the Web course (which is held in the second year of the Computer Science program at the University of Salerno).


News

April 2024 🇵🇹 Speaker ICSE-SEET 2024 Training for Security: Results from Using a Static Analysis Tool in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps
April 2024 🇵🇹 Service ICSE 2024 Student Volunteer
March 2024 ✔️ Accepted paper EASE 2024 On the Accuracy of GitHub's Dependency Graph
September 2023 🇦🇱 Speaker SEAA 2023 A Large-scale Fine-grained Empirical Study on Security Concerns in Open-source
Managing Vulnerabilities in Software Projects: the Case of NTT Data
June 2023 ✔️ Accepted paper ICSME 2023 Software Bill of Materials Adoption: A Mining Study from GitHub
June 2023 🇫🇮 Speaker EASE 2023 Training Bachelor Students to Design Better Quality Web Apps: Preliminary Results from a Prospective Empirical Investigation
May 2023 🇦🇺 Speaker ICSE-SEET 2023 Training for Security: Planning the Use of a SAT in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps

Resume

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

2022 - Present
📍 🇮🇹 University of Salerno
Advisors: Prof. Rita Francese, Prof. Simone Romano

M.Sc. in Computer Science

2020 - 2022
📍 🇮🇹 University of Salerno
🎓 110 / 110 cum laude and special commendation from the commission
Advisors: Prof. Rita Francese, Prof. Simone Romano, Prof. Giuseppe Scanniello

B.Sc. in Computer Science

2017 - 2020
📍 🇮🇹 University of Salerno
🎓 110 / 110 cum laude
Advisor: Prof. Michele Risi

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

2021 - Present
📍 🇮🇹 University of Salerno
📜 B.Sc. in Computer Science
Help teaching for Software Technologies for the Web course

Services

Student Volunteer

2024
📍 🇵🇹 ICSE
46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

Journal Article Reviewer

2023 - Present
📙 TOSEM
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Publications

  • All
  • 2023
  • 2024
  • ICSE
  • ICSME
  • EASE
  • SEAA
On the Accuracy of GitHub's Dependency Graph
28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Daniele Bifolco, Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
EASE 2024
Training for Security: Results from Using a Static Analysis Tool in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps
46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training
Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
ICSE-SEET 2024
Software Bill of Materials Adoption: A Mining Study from GitHub
39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
ICSME 2023
A Large-scale Fine-grained Empirical Study on Security Concerns in Open-source Software
49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
SEAA 2023
Managing Vulnerabilities in Software Projects: the Case of NTT Data
49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Riccardo Burlon, Giuseppe Scanniello
SEAA 2023
Training Bachelor Students to Design Better Quality Web Apps: Preliminary Results from a Prospective Empirical Investigation
27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Sabato Nocera, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
EASE 2023
Training for Security: Planning the Use of a SAT in the Development Pipeline of Web Apps
45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training
Sabato Nocera, Simone Romano, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello
ICSE-SEET 2023