Dr. Leonel Merino

Dr. Leonel Merino

Leonel Merino is Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at the School of Design and the Faculty of Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, since 2021. He is part of the Design Engineering Lab.

About me

Leonel Merino is Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at the School of Design and the Faculty of Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, since 2021. He is part of the Design Engineering Lab).

Between 2018 and 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Visualization Research Center (VISUS), Universitaet Stuttgart.

Since 2020, Prof. Merino is a member of the steering committee of VISSOFT, the leading international conference in software visualization. His research interests lie at the intersection of the use of virtual and augmented reality, software engineering, human-computer interaction, data visualization, and evaluations with users.

From 2014 to 2018, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Software Composition Group (SCG) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Universitaet Bern.

He worked as a Project Engineer at ENTEL between 2009 and 2014. Previously, he received a Master’s degree in Computer Science, in the EMOOSE program, from the École des Mines de Nantes and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in 2008.

He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Sciences and a Professional Degree of Civil Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Chile, in 2006.

Program Chair

  • VISSOFT 2021 - Program Co-Chair (9th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 27 – 28, 2021)
  • VISSOFT 2020 - NIER/Tool Demo Track (8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Adelaide, Australia, September 28 – 29, 2020)
  • NIP 2020 - (First International Workshop on New Interfaces for Programming — Porto, Portugal, March 24, 2020)
  • VISSOFT 2019 - Artifact Evaluation Committee (7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Cleveland, OH, USA, September 30 – October 1, 2019)

Program Committee

  • VISSOFT 2020 – Technical Track (8th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Adelaide, Australia, September 28 – 29, 2020)
  • VISSOFT 2019 – Technical Track (7th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Cleveland, OH, USA, September 30 – October 1, 2019)
  • VISSOFT 2018 – Artifact Evaluation Committee (6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization —- Madrid, Spain, September 24 – 25, 2018)
  • VISSOFT 2017 – NIER/Tool Demo Track (5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization — Shanghai, China, September 18 – 19, 2017)
  • VISSOFT 2016 – Artifact Evaluation Committee (4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization —- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, October 3 – 4, 2016)

Reviewer

Journal of Software and Systems, Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics, Information Software Technology, Information Visualization, SEAA (2019, 2020), IEEE VR (2018), VISSOFT (2015, 2019), VISSOFT NIER/TD (2016-2017), SANER (2015-2018), ICSME (2015-2016), BENEVOL (2015), ICSE (2015), and SATToSE (2014).

Student Supervision

Presentation Slides

Unleashing the Potentials of Immersive Augmented Reality for Software Engineering - SANER 2020 from Leonel Merino