I was born in Treviso (Italy) in 1968. I received my degree cum laude in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova in 1992, with a thesis in the field of neural networks. In 1994 I joined the Software Engineering group at IRST. In 1999 I received my PhD degree in Software Engineering from the University of Padova, with the thesis Code Analysis in Support to Software Maintenance. Now I am head of the Software Engineering (SE) Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). I have received the ICSE MIP (Most Influential Paper) award in 2011 for the paper: Filippo Ricca and Paolo Tonella, Analysis and Testing of Web Applications, ICSE 2001. I have been ranked among the top-50 Software Engineering scholars in an article published by the Communications of the ACM (vol. 50, n. 6, pp. 81-85, June 2007). I have been recognized as a distinguished TOSEM referee several times in recent years (including 2011-2012). My key contributions to the research in software engineering include: a comprehensive reverse engineering method for object oriented software [1]; pioneering research on model extraction for web testing [2]; and foundational work on evolutionary testing of object oriented software [3]. My current research interests include reverse engineering, program analysis, (web/search based) testing. More details are available in my Curriculum Vitae.

I teach Security Testing at the University of Trento, MSc degree in Computer Science.

1. Paolo Tonella and Alessandra Potrich, Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code. Springer, New York, USA. 2005. ISBN: 0-387-40295-0
2. F. Ricca and P. Tonella, "Analysis and Testing of Web Applications", Proc. of ICSE'2001, International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 25-34, Toronto, Canada, May 12-19, 2001.
3. Paolo Tonella, Evolutionary Testing of Classes , Proc. of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) , pp. 119-128, Boston, MA, USA, July 2004.

Address: Paolo Tonella FBK-irst Via Sommarive, 18 38050 Povo, Trento - ITALY phone: (+39) 0461-314.524 fax: (+39) 0461-302.040 secretary: (+39) 0461-314.517 email: tonella AT fbk.eu WWW: http://se.fbk.eu/tonella/