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Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
About Me

I’m Juan P. Sandoval, assistant professor and head of SE² — Software Engineering Research Group II at the Department of Computer Science (DCC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My research focuses on software engineering — I love building tools that help developers understand, test, and evolve complex systems. Recently, I’ve been exploring automated code generation, software mining repositories, and AI-driven approaches for software testing and maintenance.

Join SE² I’m always looking for motivated Master’s and PhD students to join our group. We define research topics together — if you’re interested in empirical software engineering, AI-driven development, or automated testing, drop me a line 🚀

SE² is part of the Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems Lab (SEIS Lab).

News
2025
ICPC 2026 - I have been invited to join the program committee (Research Track) of the IEEE International Conference on Software Comprehension
Jan 01
MSR 2026- I have been invited to join the program committee (Research Track) of the IEEE Mining Software Repositories
Jan 01
Our paper - Increasing the Effectiveness of Automatically Generated Tests by Improving Class Observability- has been accepted in the main track of ICSE 2025.
Jan 01
ICSE 2025 - Our paper - Increasing the Effectiveness of Automatically Generated Tests by Improving Class Observability - has won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!
Jan 01
2024
Our book "Testing in Pharo" is online
Jul 01