Rate My Professor Emilia Mendes

Her research centers on Empirical Software Engineering, particularly Human-centric Software Engineering exploring how personality traits and capabilities influence agile team climate, productivity, and product quality; Evidence-based Software Engineering involving systematic literature reviews and mapping studies; Value-based Software Engineering for decision-making; and statistical/machine learning applications to software effort estimation, team climate forecasting, dementia prognosis, and maintainability prediction. She leads Aarhus University’s Software Engineering research group and holds a Danish National Research Foundation Chair from June 2024 to May 2027 focused on advancing Software Effort Estimation using AI and natural language processing. Mendes boasts over 10,000 citations with an h-index of 58, ranks #32 among Empirical Software Engineering scholars worldwide and #20 among top Computer Science scientists in Sweden (2023), and is among the global top 2% scientists. She has secured 11,921,603 EUR in research grants, received nine best paper awards at international conferences, edited books including Web Engineering (2006), co-edited ESEM ’12 proceedings, and authored recent papers such as “Exploring the relation between personality traits and agile team climate” (2024). She served as General Chair of EASE 2017, Program Committee Co-Chair for EASE and ESEM 2012, and holds editorial board positions at Information and Software Technology and ACM Computing Surveys.