Giancarlo Sierra

I am a Software Engineer Master’s Student (International) & Research Assistant at Concordia University, Montreal-Canada. I am part of the DAS Lab research group under the supervision of Emad Shihab, where I am focusing on studying Self-Admitted Technical Debt, and in particular its prioritization. Born and raised in Ecuador. I have keep a permanent interest on technology and software in particular since I can remember. Original ideas move me, and learning is a never-ending quest. Environment & social cooperation are always in my mind. Sports practitioner, music lover, guitar enthusiast.

Publications​

Journals

• G. Sierra, E. Shihab, and Y. Kamei, "A Survey of Self-admitted Technical Debt," in Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2019
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• S. Mujahid, G. Sierra, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and W. Shang, "An Empirical Study of Android Wear User Complaints," in Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2018
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Conferences

• G. Sierra, T. Ahmad, E. Shihab, and N. Tsantalis, "Is Self-Admitted Technical Debt a Good Indicator of Architectural Divergences?," in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’19), 2019
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• S. Mujahid, G. Sierra, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and W. Shang, "Examining User Complaints of Wearable Apps: A Case Study on Android Wear," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, 2017
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Theses

• G. Sierra, "Towards the Repayment of Self-Admitted Technical Debt," in , 2019
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Posters​

• G. Sierra, A. Tahmid, E. Shihab and N. Tsantalis, “On the Relation between Architectural Divergences and Self-Admitted Technical Debt__” at CSER (Consortium for Software Engineering Research) Fall 2017 Meeting. Markham, Toronto, Canada – Best Poster.

Service​

• Sub-reviewer: ICPC’17 – 25th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension.
• Sub-reviewer: EMSE ’17– Journal of Empirical Software Engineering.
• Sub-reviewer: ICSME’17 – International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution.
• Sub-reviewer: SANER’18 – 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering.

Teaching Assistant​

• SOEN 341 – Software Process – Fall 2017.
• SOEN 341 – Software Process – Winter 2018.

Awards​

• Concordia Merit Scholarship, 2016 – 2017.
• France and Andre Desmarais Graduate Fellowship – ENCS, 2018.

Contact​

Email: g_sierr@encs.concordia.ca
Linkedin: giancarlosierra