Dr. Christoph Gote
Postdoc
Christoph Gote is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich and at the Data Analytics Group at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the analysis of collaboration structures in software development teams. To this end, he develops tools, such as git2net and gambit, that facilitate the extraction and cleaning of action and interaction data from git repositories. From these actions and interactions, he subsequently derives fine-grained social and technical networks. Based on these networks, he studies topics such as the optimal size for teams, the relationship between coordination structures and team productivity, the emergence of hierarchies, and team resilience. For this research, he applies a broad range of methods from data-driven modelling, statistics, machine learning, and network analysis. In addition, he develops state-of-the-art techniques for temporal-, higher-, and multi-order network analysis.
Christoph's most recent publications
Detecting and Optimising Team Interactions in Software Development
PLOS One - 2024

Shock! Quantifying the Impact of Core Developers' Dropout on the Productivity of OSS Projects
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 - 2024
Predicting variable-length paths in networked systems using multi-order generative models.
Applied Network Science - 2023

Helping a Friend or Supporting a Cause? Disentangling Active and Passive Cosponsorship in the U.S. Congress
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) - 2023

Locating Community Smells in Software Development Processes Using Higher-Order Network Centralities
Social Network Analysis and Mining - 2023

Modeling social resilience: Questions, answers, open problems
Advances in Complex Systems - 2022

Predicting Influential Higher-Order Patterns in Temporal Network Data
2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) - 2022
Big Data = Big Insights? Operationalising Brooks' Law in a Massive GitHub Data Set
2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - 2022

gambit - An Open Source Name Disambiguation Tool for Version Control Systems
2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - 2021

Analysis and Visualisation of Time Series Data on Networks with Pathpy
Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 - 2021
Analysing time-stamped co-editing networks in software development teams using git2net
Empirical Software Engineering - 2021
Multilayer network approach to modeling authorship influence on citation dynamics in physics journals
Physical Review E - 2020

git2net - An Open Source Package to Mine Time-Stamped Collaboration Networks from Large git Repositories
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories - 2019