Peer-Review

Involvement in editorial boards, peer-review processes, and program committees duties at conferences. Access my verified Publons profile.

Editorial Board

2022

Member of the Editorial Board at Information and Software Technology [Rank A, Top-4 venue in Software Systems]
Journal of Systems and Software Open Science Board member, since September 2021. [Rank A]
Organising Committee member of MSR4P&S Workshop, colocated with ESEC/FSE 2022 [Rank A*]. Proceedings @ ACM. Summary @ ACM

Program Committee Duties

2023

MSR 2023 (Mining Software Repositories), main track [Rank A]. Recipient of the ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award.
ESEC/FSE 2023 (Foundations of Software Engineering), main track, [Rank A*].
ICPC 2023 (International Conference on Program Comprehensionl), Main Research Track [Rank A]. Recipient of the ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award.
EASE 2023 (International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering [Rank A]

2022

PROMISE 2022 (Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering), co-located with FSE 2022 [Rank A*]
PASE 2022 (Automated Software Engineering), NIER track and Late Breaking track [Rank A*]
ICSME 2022 (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution), Main Research Track [Rank A]
ROPES 2022 (International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering). Workshop at ICSE 2022 [Rank A*].
ICPC 2022 (International Conference on Program Comprehensionl), Main Research Track [Rank A]
MSR 2022 (Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories), Main Research Track [Rank A]. Recipient of the ACM Distinguished Reviewer Award

2021

Program Committee member of ICSME 2021 (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution), Main Research Track. Recipient of the Distinguished Reviewer Award [Rank A]
Program Committee member of ASE 2021 (Automated Software Engineering), Late Breaking Results (LBR) track. [Rank A*]
Program Committee member of ACM WomENCOURAGE 2021, Poster Session.
Program Committee member of HUFAMO 2021 (Workshop on Human Factors in Modelling / Modelling Human Factors) (Co-located with ACM/IEEE 24th MODELS). [Rank A]

< 2020

Program Committee member of Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D (LatinR 2019).
Program Committee member of 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2019), main research track and position papers. [Rank B]
Program Committee member of 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2018), main research track and position papers. [Rank B]
Organising Committee Member of Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D (LatinR 2018).

Other Peer-Reviewing Activities

Associate Editor of rOpenSci Software Peer Review (2018-January 2023).
Peer Reviewer for the AnitaB.org “Pass It On” Awards (2019)

Talks and Achievements

Academic activities I have been part of.

Talks, Interviews and Workshops

2023

Interview with the ARDC (Australia Research Data Commons), “Shaping Research Software: An Interview With Melina Vidoni”. Interviewed by Dr Paula Andrea Martinez.

2022

Invited Speaker. “Technical Debt and Software Engineering for R Programming”, at ResBazQld 2022. Hosted by Amanda Miotto.
Invited Talk. “MSR For Software Engineering Research”, at Toronto ata Workshop, November 22nd, 2022. Hosted by Assistant Professor Rohan Alexander.
Invited Talk. “TechDebt Research Using MSR Approaches”, at University of Adelaide CREST (Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies), 2022. Hosted by Mubin Swarup. Adelaide-Canberra (Virtual).

2020-2021

Invited Talk. “TechDebt in R: What your (Unit) Tests and Comments Say About Your R Package Code”, at Monash University (NUMBAT seminar), 2021. Hosted by Stuart Lee, Dianne Cook.
Invited Talk. “Unit Testing Practices in R Programming”, at Monash University. Invited and hosted by Dr Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn. Melbourne, Australia (February 11th, 2021).
Invited Talk. “Software Engineering Process & Techniques in Operational Research”, at Monash University. Invited and hosted by Prof Grundy. Melbourne, Australia (March 11th, 2020).

< 2020

Poster & Lightning Talk at Australasian Computer Science Week 2020, Swimburne University. Melbourne, Australia (February 2019).
Invited Talk at R-Ladies Melbourne (July 2019): “Open Science through rOpenSci”.
Moderator for rOpenSci Community Call (June 2019): “Involving Multilingual Communities”.
Workshop Facilitator at R-Ladies Santa Fe (during 2018): Basic R, Machine Learning Algorithms, R-Ladies mission, and more.
Invited Talk at Recreo’s School Fair (November 2018): “Inviting Women to Study Computer Science”.

Memberships

IEEE Member, including IEEE Computing Society and IEEE Women in Engineering. Since 2020.
ACM Member, including ACM SIGSOFT. Since 2021.
INSTICC Member, since 2017.
RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand. Since 2022.

Outreach

Founder and Main-Organiser of R-Ladies Santa Fe (2018-2019).
Member of the ANU R-Users Group, since 2022.

Experience

Past positions and positions in the Academia and Industry, in Australia and Abroad.

Software Development Lead

eWater Group

Mar 2023 – Present Canberra, Australia

As a Software Development Lead at eWater Group, I manage the web and desktop software teams, ensuring the quality and reliability of our scientific software products. My main goals are:

To create a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, with the stakeholder at its centre.
To maximise the flow of value delivery by embracing a lean software development lifecycle.
To improve the internal collaboration between developers, research software engineers, and hydrologists.
To empower my team to respond quickly to changes in the market and customer needs.
To foster and nourish the reliability of our products.
To continue to adapt our software products to modern times, while continue to provide operational excellence

Lecturer (eq. Assistant Professor) [On Leave]

Australian National University, School of Computing

Nov 2021 – Present Canberra, Australia

Tenure track, since November 2021.
FTE 0.4 between March-June 2023.
On leave since July 2023.

Lecturer (eq. Assistant Professor)

RMIT University, School of Computing Technologies

May 2019 – Oct 2021 Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities included:

Research in a range of topics focused in empirical Software Engineering, Requirements Egineering, Software Development, and Agile Methodologies.
Teaching Software Engineering Fundamentals, Software Engineering Project Management, Capstone Projects and Object-Oriented Sofware Design.

Postdoc Scholarship

Institute of Design and Development (INGAR CONICET-UTN)

Apr 2018 – Apr 2019 Santa Fe, Argentina

I continued my research under the supervision of Prof Aldo Vecchietti, in the area of decision support systems, and introducing concepts of Software Engineering in Operational Research, in order to systematize and aid OR interventions (see the project). I collaborated with the industry in different projects.

Assistant Lecturer

Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Regional Santa Fe

Mar 2018 – Apr 2019 Santa Fe, Argentina

Assistant Lecturer at different courses in UTN FRSF:

Data Management, as Lecturer - career ‘Information Systems Engineering’
Optimisation Systems for Enterprise Operations, as Senior Lecturer - carrer ‘PhD in Systems Engineering’.

I was previously an invited Lecturer in the course ‘Architecture-Based Software Design’, for the career ‘Information Systems Engineer’ during 2016.

PhD Scholarship

Institute of Design and Development (INGAR CONICET-UTN)

Apr 2013 – Mar 2018 Santa Fe, Argentina

I started my research under the supervision of Prof Aldo Vecchietti and Prof Jorge Marcelo Montagna, in the area of Software Engineering, aiming to produce a framework that would contribute to simplify the development of Advanced Planning Systems in manufacturing companies (see the project)

Teaching

Current Courses (ANU)

COMP4130: Managing Software Quality and Process from 2023 S1.

Prior Courses (RMIT University)

Software Engineering Fundamentals (ISYS1118, ISYS1117, ISYS 3413). Bachelor of Computer Science, and Bachelor of Software Engineering. Role: Course Coordinator. Students numbers: 200+ in 2020-S1/2, 550+ in 2021-S1/2.
Object Oriented Software Design (ISYS1083, ISYS1084). Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Software Engineering. Role: Course Coordinator. Student numbers: 200+ in 2021-S1.
Software Engineering Project Management (ISYS1108). Bachelor of IT. Role: Course Coordinator. Student numbers: 200+ in 2020-S2.
Postgraduate Information Technology Project (COSC2648). Master of Information Technology (2019 S2). Role: Projects Supervisor.
Programming Project 1 (COSC2408). Bachelors of Computer Science, Information Technology and Computing Studies (2019 S2). Role: Projects Supervisor.