His research interests lie in the areas of software engineering and computer supported cooperative work, focusing on social software engineering and distributed software development. He is a recipient of a NASA Group Achievement Award (1996, as a research associate at the University of Maryland), an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award (2006), an IBM Faculty Award (2008) and the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award from Microsoft Research (2011). Filippo Lanubile has been the Program Chair of the 2008 edition of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) and will be the General Chair of the ICGSE 2013 conference. He can be contacted at lanubile@di.uniba.it