Sandro Pedrazzini

I am software engineer and computer science teacher. My working area and interests have been computational linguistics, object-oriented design and development, and information retrieval.

In my teaching activity I try to teach aspects that emphasize one's working experience. In a professional field where the last technology always seems the best, where the new graduates seem to have more and more advantages in respect to the preceeding ones, it is important to find out which are the most relevant elements and technologies that will live more than a season, and on which it is worth to invest time and build your own experience.

In this context I get a big help from my activity as software engineer at Canoo and from my collegues there. As company we use and promote project management approaches following the Agile Software Development methodologies, which primary rule is to "satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software". The practice influence of such methodologies in the design and development phases is a strong use of refactoring, test and design patterns, which I am teaching to my students as important elements of experience in the software development job.

The picture? Not my face, but a small tribute to a great sport that I used to actively play in better times...

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Short Bio

Sandro Pedrazzini got his degree in computer science engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. After the diplom, he worked for some years in the Computational Linguistics field, obtaining the Ph.D. at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1993. Since then, until 2000, he was mostly involved for the University of Basel on projects on information retrieval and computational linguistics, financed by private industries and public funds.
In 1999 he co-founded Canoo Engineering AG, for which he is now working as software engineer.
Since 1993 he has also been teaching and working on object-oriented design and implementation, at the technical high-school until 1997, and afterwards at the department of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences in Lugano, Switzerland, where he got the title of professor in 2003.
In 2000 he received a sabbatical semester, which he spent at the University of Pretoria, Southafrica.

Address

Sandro Pedrazzini
SUPSI, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzeland
Department of Computer Science 
Galleria 2
6928 MANNO, Switzerland

phone: +41 91 610 85 13
mail: sandro.pedrazzini at supsi.ch

Address at Canoo

Kirschgartenstrasse 7
4051 BASEL, Switzerland

phone: +41 61 228 94 44
mail: sandro.pedrazzini at canoo.com