Who's Really in Control? Human-AI Collaboration in Software Engineering
Software Institute
Date: 5 March 2026 / 16:30 - 17:30
USI East Campus, Room D1.13
Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Bavota, USI
Abstract: In this talk, I will share findings from two recent studies investigating the effects of AI assistance on code writing and code review. Our results shed some light on the trade-offs involved in adopting AI tools, highlighting the hidden costs that may accompany the apparent gains in productivity.
Biography: Gabriele Bavota is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, where he is part of the Software Institute and he leads the SEART research group. He is the Principal Investigator of the DEVINTA ERC Starting grant. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2013. His research interests include AI4SE, software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories, and empirical software engineering.
Chair: Nargiz Humbatova
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In February 2019, the Software Institute started its SI Seminar Series. Every Thursday afternoon, a researcher of the Institute will publicly give a short talk on a software engineering argument of their choice. Examples include, but are not limited to novel interesting papers, seminal papers, personal research overview, discussion of preliminary research ideas, tutorials, and small experiments.
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