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Xiaozhou Li, PhD
RTDa (Research Fellow)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • Nationality:
    Finland
  • Residence:
    Bolzano, Italy
  • DoB:
    25.7.1984
  • Gender:
    Male
Chinese
English
Finnish
Japanese
Python
Academic Skills
Data Science
Web
Game studies
  • Web crawling
  • Gamification design
  • C, C++, C#, VB, etc.
  • Agile with Scrum
  • Prompt Engineering
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Xiaozhou Li, PhD

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50+
Publications
10+
Skill Certificates
2
MSc. in SE & Game Studies
10+
Teaching Experiences

My Research Interests

Microservice
Microservice degradation, Anomaly detection, Architecture reconstruction, Service coupling, etc.
OSS Evaluation
OSS adoption models, OSS sustainability and abandonment, OSS Tooling, etc.
Software Organizational Structure
Organizational coupling, Social network analysis, Conway's Law, Developer personality detection, etc.
Computational Game Studies
Data-driven playability analysis, Game genre classification, Player type analysis, etc.
Gamification Design
Software engineering for gamification, Model-driven gamification, Dynamic-oriented Gamification, etc.

Recent Works

ICSA 2024
Toward Collaboration Optimization in Microservice Projects based on Developer Personalities X Li, F Calefato, V Lenarduzzi, D Taibi
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Computing (2025)
Exploring microservice ownership and organizational coupling in open-source projects: an empirical study. Computing, 107(4), 1-35.Li, X., d’Aragona, D. A., Cerny, T., Lenarduzzi, V., Taibi, D., & Janes, A.
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PROFES 2023
Evaluating Microservice Organizational Coupling Based on Cross-Service Contribution X Li, DA d’Aragona, D Taibi
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Xiaozhou Li