Alexander’s research covers a wide rage of empirical software engineering topics, from analysis of models and source code to collaborative and human aspects of software engineering. The underlying idea of his work is that addressing software engineering challenges should be grounded in observation and experimentation, and requires a combination of the social and the technical perspectives. Alexander has co-authored a book “Evolving Software Systems” (Springer Verlag, 2014), and more than 100 scientific papers and articles. He is the steering committee chair of ICSME, steering committee member of SCAM, has been the general chair of ICSM 2013, and a program chair of SANER 2015 and ICPC 2017. Since 2015, he has been acting as the vice-director of the Graduate Program Computer Science.