Gian Luca Scoccia
Dr. Gian Luca Scoccia is an assistant professor at the Computer Science division of the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI). Previously, I hold a position as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of L'Aquila, with professors Paola Inverardi and Prof. Marco Autili. In 2019, he received the Ph.D. Degree from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, advised by Prof. Paola Inverardi, Prof. Ivano Malavolta and Prof. Marco Autili. He received (magna cum laude) the Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of L'Aquila (Italy) in 2014. His research interests include mobile applications, privacy-enhancing technologies and empirical software engineering.
Education
Assistant Professor
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Visiting PhD Student
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
PhD Student
Gran Sasso Science Institute
PhD thesis: "Enhancing Trustability of Android Applications via Flexible Permissions"
Supervisor: Prof. Paola Inverardi.
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ivano Malavolta, Prof. Marco Autili.
Master of Science (BS) - Computer Science
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Graduation thesis: "Analisi e sviluppo di un framework per la UI design di applicazioni per dispositivi mobili".
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Henry Muccini.
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Graduation thesis: "Social Discoverer: progettazione e sviluppo un'applicazione java per l'interfacciamento con una wereable sensor network".
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Henry Muccini.
Co-supervisor: Prof. Luigi Pomante.
Publications
JavaScript Dead Code Identification, Elimination, and Empirical Assessment
Studying users’ perception of IoT mobile companion apps
The state of the art in measurement-based experiments on the mobile web
An empirical study of privacy labels on the Apple iOS mobile app store
How does Migrating to Kotlin Impact the Run-time Efficiency of Android Apps?
Software Engineering Techniques for Statically Analyzing Mobile Apps: Research Trends, Characteristics, and Potential for Industrial Adoption
Challenges in Developing Desktop Web Apps: a Study of Stack Overflow and GitHub
Web Frameworks for Desktop Apps: an Exploratory Study
A self-configuring and adaptive privacy-aware permission system for Android apps
Leave my Apps Alone! A Study on how Android Developers Access Installed Apps on User’s Device
On the Elicitation of Privacy and Ethics Preferences of Mobile Users Visions
Hey, my data are mine! Active data to empower the user
Automated feature identification for Android apps
Permission issues in open-source android apps: An exploratory study
Enhancing Trustability of Android Applications via User-Centric Flexible Permissions
An empirical history of permission requests and mistakes in open source Android apps
An Extensible Approach for Taming the Challenges of JavaScript Dead Code Elimination
An Investigation into Android Run-time Permissions from the End Users' Perspective
User-centric android flexible permissions
Perspectives on static analysis of mobile apps (invited talk)
Awards
Best paper award at MOBILESoft 2020
Distinguished paper award at SCAM 2021
Service
I'm one of the organizers of the 5th International Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment (ASYDE), co-located with the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023).
I have served on the program committee for the research track of the following conferences:
I have served on the program committee of the artifact evaluation track for the following conferences:-
45th edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023).
31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023).
I have acted as reviewer for the following conferences:
- International Conference on Software Engineering
- ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- International Conference on Software Architecture
- International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
- International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
- Empirical Software Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- IEEE Software
- Journal of Systems & Software
- ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
- Information and Software Technology
- Software: Practice and Experience
- Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Journal of Information Security and Applications
Teaching
For the academic year 2022/2023 I taught the course "Applicazioni per dispositivi mobili" (Mobile application development) at the University of L'Aquila. The course is composed of 48 hours (6 CFU), divided in theoretical lessons and practical exercise sessions.