Publications

My research can be found in various databases on the web:

• My Research Profile on Google Scholar.
• My publications in DBLP
• My Author Profil at ACM 

I am very grateful to the many research collaborators, PhD students, and Post-Docs whom I have had the pleasure to work with. In particular, my Post-Docs contributed a lot to help me run my research group and to co-advise PhD students, even in busy times as a dean. The most recent results would not have been possible without them. 

Research as a team effort: 15 A-rated publications of my research team in the last five years 2016-2020: 

• 5 papers in A+ journals (4 x Empirical Software Engineering, 1 x Transactions on Software Engineering)
• 10 papers in A-rated conference proceedings (7 x International Conference on Software Engineering, 1 x Foundations of Software Engineering, 2 x Automated Software Engineering).

Research highlights: Below is a sample of papers that shall give you a glimpse on my research: 

1. Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald C. Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas Zimmermann: Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study.  ICSE (SEIP) 2019: 291-300

2. Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Harald C. Gall, Brendan Murphy: Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista. ICSE 2009: 518-528 (2009)

3. Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Harald C. Gall, Emanuel Giger, Brendan Murphy: Cross-project defect prediction: a large scale experiment on data vs. domain vs. process.  ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2009: 91-100 (2009)

4. Beat Fluri, Michael Würsch, Martin Pinzger, Harald C. Gall: Change Distilling: Tree Differencing for Fine-Grained Source Code Change Extraction.  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 33(11): 725-743 (2007)

5. Michael Fischer, Martin Pinzger, Harald C. Gall: Populating a Release History Database from Version Control and Bug Tracking Systems. ICSM 2003: 23-32 (2003)

• Test of Time Award, Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE), 2019 [see 3)]

• Most Influential Paper Award, International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2013 [see 5)]

• Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundations award (SEIF), 2012

• ACM Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2009 [see 2)]

• Research highlight, Communications of the ACM, 2009

• Best Paper Awards at ICPC 2016, WCRE 1997, and ICSM 1997 conferences

• Software Engineering Award for best PhD thesis, German Informatics Society, 1994

Luciano Baresi, Schahram Dustdar, Harald Gall, Maristella Matera (Eds.)
Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3272,
Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Schahram Dustdar, Harald Gall and Manfred Hauswirth.
Software-Architekturen für Verteilte Systeme.
Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2003.

Harald Gall (ed.)
ESEC-FSE 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th European Software Engineering Conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, ACM Press, 2005.