Antonio Mastropaolo

but you can call me Ndònio 😄

Williamsburg VA, United States of America 🇺🇸
McGlothlin-Street Hall, 251 Jamestown Rd
Office #014
Dr. Antonio Mastropaolo is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at William & Mary, USA. His work lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering (SE) with a strong emphasis on the automation of SE-related practices (e.g., bug-fixing, automated documentation of code components) as well as aspect related to the robustness of Foundation Models for SE such as GitHub Copilot

Before joining William & Mary, Antonio obtained his Ph.D in Informatics from Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland, in May 2024, where he was part of the SEART group. Prior to that, Antonio graduated (cum laude) with an MSc. in Software Systems and Security from University of Molise, Italy, in 2020.

news

Apr. 2025

🎉💡 Excited to share that our research has been awarded an NSF Grant (#2451058)
Grateful for the support and looking forward to advancing efficient and responsible AI for software engineering.

Apr. 2025

🏆 Honored to be nominated for the Distinguished Reviewer Award at FSE 2025!

Apr. 2025

🔥 Fantastic news! The position paper co-authored with Denys Poshyvanyk "A Path Less Traveled: Reimagining Software Engineering Automation via a Neurosymbolic Paradigm", has been accepted to the International Workshop on Envisioning the AI-Augmented Software Development Life Cycle 🎉

Mar. 2025

💯 Thrilled to share that I’ve joined the Program Committee for the Research Track of ASE 2025 🚀

Jan. 2025

🔥 Great news! Our paper, "Optimizing Datasets for Code Summarization: Is Code-Comment Coherence Enough?", has been accepted to ICPC 2025 Research Track 🎉

Jan. 2025

🌟 New exciting news for the lab! Our paper, "Toward Neuro Symbolic Program Comprehension", has been accepted to ICPC ERA 2025 🎉
Thanks to my amazing collaborators: Alejandro Velasco, Aya Garryyeva, David Nader Palacio, and Denys Poshyvanyk.

Jan. 2025

🎉 Exciting news! Saima starts her PhD journey with a publication in the FORGE 2025 Research Track! 🚀 Stay tuned for the pre-print: "Resource-Efficient & Effective Code Summarization".

Dec. 2024

💯 Excited to announce that I’ve joined the Program Committee for the Research Track of ICSE 2026 🚀

Dec. 2024

🏆 Glad to receive the Distinguished Reviewer Award at ASE 2024