Scholar.png_thumb90

Leonel Alejandro Merino Del Campo

Profesor Asistente

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Ciencias de la Computación, Realidad Virtual y Aumentada, Análisis Inmersivo, Visualización Situada, Visualización de información, Ingeniería de Software, Comprensión de Software, Evaluaciones con Usuarios.

Educación

  •  Computer Science, UNIVERSITAT BERN. Suiza, 2018
  •  Computer Science, ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES. Francia, 2008
  •  Computer Science, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL. Bélgica, 2008
  •  Ciencias de la Computación, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006
  •  Ingeniero Civil en Computación, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Research Assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSITAT BERN

    Informatik

    Bern, Suiza

    2014 - 2018

  •   Research Associate Part Time

    UNIVERSITAT STUTTGART

    Informatik

    Stuttgart, Alemania

    2018 - A la fecha

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Santiago, Chile

    2021 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Analista Funcional Full Time

    I.T.S. S.A.

    Santiago, Chile

    2005 - 2009

  •   Ingeniero de Proyectos Full Time

    Entel S.A.

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2014

  •   Graduate School Manager Part Time

    SFB/Transregio 161

    Stuttgart, Alemania

    2019 - A la fecha

Premios y Distinciones

  •   REDES - CONICYT 190086

    CONSEJO NACIONAL DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA

    Chile, 2019

    A través del rol de investigador extranjero principal en el financiamiento de apoyo a la Formación de Redes Internacionales entre Centro de Investigación, Redes.

  •   Beca Chile Postdoctorado Extranjero 74200100

    CONSEJO NACIONAL DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA

    Chile, 2019

    Beca Chile Postdoctorado Extranjero 74200100

  •   Distinguished Paper Award

    IEEE--VISSOFT

    España, 2018

    Distinguished Paper Award: “Overcoming Issues of 3D Software Visualization through Immersive Augmented Reality”, Merino et al., IEEE

  •   Beca Chile Doctorado Extranjero 72140330

    CONSEJO NACIONAL DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA

    Chile, 2013

    Beca Chile Doctorado Extranjero 72140330

  •   Research Stay Fellowship

    DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT

    Alemania, 2016

    SFB TRR 161 Project A03 “Quantification of Visual Analytics Transformations and Mappings”

  •   Best Paper Award

    IEEE--VISSOFT

    Estados Unidos, 2016

    Best Paper Award: “Towards Actionable Visualisation in Software Development”, Merino et al., IEEE.


 

Article (15)

Collaborative Scenario Experimentation for Strategy Formulation to Shape Desirable Futures

Wuth P.; Hernandez R.J.; Merino L.; Negrete S.; Pavez I.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Research Technology Management  (2025)

An Eye-Tracking Study on the Use of Split/Unified Code Change Views for Bug Detection

Alcocer, Juan Pablo Sandoval; Cossio-Chavalier, Alejandra; Rojas-Stambuk, Tiara; Merino, Leonel

Article ISI SCOPUS
IEEE Access  (2023)

DGT-AR: Visualizing Code Dependencies in AR

Freire-Pozo, Dussan; Cespedes-Arancibia, Kevin; Merino, Leonel; Fernandez-Blanco, Alison; Neyem, Andres; Sandoval Alcocer, Juan Pablo; IEEE

Article ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2023  (2023)

A systematic literature review of modern software visualization

Chotisarn, Noptanit; Zheng, Xu; Lonapalawong, Supaporn; Zhang, Tianye; Xu, Mingliang

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZATION  (2020)

Unleashing the Potentials of Immersive Augmented Reality for Software Engineering

Seidl, Christoph; Kontogiannis, K; Khomh, F; Chatzigeorgiou, A; Fokaefs, ME

Article ISI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2020 IEEE 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ANALYSIS, EVOLUTION, AND REENGINEERING (SANER '20)  (2020)

CorpusVis - Visualizing Software Metrics at Scale

Slater, Jack; Dietrich, Jens; IEEE

Article ISI
2019 SEVENTH IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT)  (2019)

VISON: An Ontology-Based Approach for Software Visualization Tool Discoverability

Kozlova, Ekaterina; Weiskopf, Daniel; IEEE

Article ISI
2019 SEVENTH IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT)  (2019)

A systematic literature review of software visualization evaluation

Anslow C.; Nierstrasz O.

Article ISI
Journal of Systems and Software  (2018)

Towards actionable visualization for software developers

Merino, Leonel; Ghafari, Mohammad; Nierstrasz, Oscar

Article ISI
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process  (2018)

CityVR: Gameful Software Visualization

IEEE

Article ISI
2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION, ICSME  (2017)

On the Impact of the Medium in the Effectiveness of 3D Software Visualizations

Fuchs, Johannes; Blumenschein, Michael; Anslow, Craig; IEEE

Article ISI
2017 IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT 2017)  (2017)

CommunityExplorer: A Framework for Visualizing Collaboration Networks

Seliner, Dominik; ACM

Article ISI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SMALLTALK TECHNOLOGIES, (IWST 2016)  (2016)

Towards Actionable Visualisation in Software Development

Sharif, B

Article ISI
2016 IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION  (2016)

Walls, Pillars and Beams: A 3D Decomposition of Quality Anomalies

Tymchuk, Yuriy

Article ISI
2016 IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION  (2016)

Explora: A Visualisation Tool forMetric Analysis of Software Corpora

Lungu, Mircea; Dollner, J

Article ISI
2015 IEEE 3RD WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (VISSOFT)  (2015)

ConferencePaper (13)

The Dilemma of Privacy Protection for Developers in the Metaverse

Rahartomo, A; Merino L.; Ghafari, M; Ohshima, Y

ConferencePaper ISI
 (2025)

A Developer's Guide to Building and Testing Accessible Mobile Apps

Alcocer J.P.S.; Merino L.; Fernandez-Blanco, A; Ravelo-Mendez, W; Escobar-Velásquez, C; Linares-Vásquez, M

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
FSE Companion - Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering  (2024)

GitTruck@Duck - Interactive Time Range Selection in Hierarchy-Oriented Polymetric Visualization of Git Repository Evolution

Hoff, A; Kilbak, TH; Merino L.; Lungu M.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2024  (2024)

Git-Truck: Hierarchy-Oriented Visualization of Git Repository Evolution

Hojelse, K; Kilbak, T; Rossum, J; Jäpelt, E; Merino L.; Lungu M.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022  (2022)

Toward In-Situ Authoring of Situated Visualization with Chorded Keyboards

Dosdall S.; Angerbauer K.; Merino L.; Sedlmair M.; Weiskopf D.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series  (2022)

TransVis: Using Visualizations and Chatbots for Supporting Transient Behavior in Microservice Systems

Beck S.; Frank S.; Hakamian A.; Merino L.; Hoorn A.V.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2021  (2021)

VR-Based User Interactions to Exploit Infinite Space in Programming Activities

Castillo V.S.S.; Merino L.; Hecht G.; Bergel A.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings - International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC  (2021)

Evaluating a visual approach for understanding javascript source code

Dias M.; Orellana D.; Vidal S.; Merino L.; Bergel A.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension  (2020)

Evaluating Mixed and Augmented Reality: A Systematic Literature Review (2009-2019)

Leonel Merino; Magdalena Schwarzl; Matthias Kraus; Michael Sedlmair; Dieter Schmalstieg

ConferencePaper
 (2020)

Toward agile situated visualization: An exploratory user study

Merino L.; Sotomayor-Gómez B.; Yu X.; Salgado R.; Bergel A.; Sedlmair M.; Weiskopf D.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings  (2020)

PerfVis: Pervasive Visualization in Immersive Augmented Reality for Performance Awareness

Nierstrasz O.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
COMPANION OF THE 2019 ACM/SPEC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING (ICPE '19)  (2019)

Overcoming Issues of 3D Software Visualization through Immersive Augmented Reality

Nierstrasz O.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings - 6th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2018  (2018)

MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization

Ghafari, M

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
2016 IEEE WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION  (2016)

Editorial (2)

Message from the General Chair and Program Co-Chairs

Beck F.; Minelli R.; Merino L.

Editorial SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2022  (2022)

Message from the Chairs VISSOFT 2021

Telea A.; Merino L.; Alcocer J.P.S.

Editorial SCOPUS
Proceedings - 2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2021  (2021)

EditorialMaterial (1)

Introduction to Special Issue on Visualization Applied to Software Engineering

Leger P.; Bergel A.; Alcocer J.P.S.; Merino L.

EditorialMaterial ISI SCOPUS
Information and Software Technology  (2023)

Review (1)

Metaverse security and privacy research: A systematic review

Rahartomo, A; Merino L.; Ghafari, M

Review ISI SCOPUS
Computers and Security  (2025)

32
Leonel Merino

Profesor Asistente

Diseño en Ingeniería (DILAB)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Juan Sandoval

Profesor Asistente

Ciencias de la Computacion

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile