Rocco Oliveto, was born in Montecorvino Rovella near Salerno (Italy) on June, 8th, 1980. He received (cum laude) the Laurea in Computer Science from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2004. From October 2006 to February 2007 he has been a visiting student at the University College London, UK, under the supervisor of prof. Anthony Finkelstein. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2008. From July 2009 to September 2009 he has been a visiting researcher at the Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada. From 2008 to 2010 he was research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Salerno. From 2005 to 2010 he is also adjunct professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Molise (Italy). He is member of the Software Engineering Lab at the University of Salerno. In 2011 he joined the STAT Department of the University of Molise where he is currently assistant professor. He teaches Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, and Programming Languages.

His research interests include traceability management, information retrieval, software maintenance and evolution, program comprehension, empirical software engineering and software development effort estimation. He is member of IEEE and ACM.