Patanamon (Pick) Thongtanunam

School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS). The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Dr. Patanamon Thongtanunam (or Pick) is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne.

Pick’s research interests include empirical software engineering, data mining, and data-driven techniques to support software engineering tasks. Her primary research goals are directed towards uncovering empirical evidence, extracting knowledge from data recorded in software repositories, gleans actionable insights for software engineering management, and developing automated approaches to support developers. Her research work and endeavour has received numerous prestigious awards including an Australian Research Councile (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (2021 - 2024), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (2016 - 2018), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award, IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Paper Award, as well as distinguished reviewer awards.

Contact: patanamon{dot}t{at}unimelb.edu.au

Recent Publications

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Recent Funding

  1. 1,200,000 AUD
    CSIRO: Next Generation Graduates Programs
    Co-leading the Responsible AI Software Engineering (RAISE) program with 9 industry partners to train 11 graduates (7 Ph.D., 1 Master, and 3 Honours) addressing the urgent need for deep expertise and excellent skills in Responsible AI Software Engineering for digital health, transportation, and defence sectors.
  2. 402,000 AUD
    ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
    For 3 years (2021 - )
    ARC DECRA Fellowship is the competitive fund which is awarded to Early Career Researchers in Australia to support excellent basic and applied research. Success rate (DE21): 200/1173 (17.1%) across all disciplines; 56/331 (16.9%) for the Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences discipline.
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    Recent Awards

    1. SANER 2025 Most Influential Paper (as known as the Test of time award)
      The award honours a paper published a decade earlier that have significant impact to the research field. This award recognises the paper titled “Who should review my code? A file location-based code reviewer recommendation approach for modern code review”.
    2. MSR 2024 Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award
      For their contributions to understanding and improving modern code review practices using mining software repositories techniques.
    3. CIS Excellence in Teaching & Education award (2023)
      For the outstanding leadership and service in the coordination of Master of Software Engeering program at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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