Advisory Board and Editors Software Engineering
Mariagrazia Fugini
Research interests in data and systems security, information system development, services for Public Administrations, Risk and Adaptive Cyber security, and services co-production. Involved in National and International Research Projects on e-Government, Web-based Information Systems, Risk and Adaptive Security, Security of Smart Environments and Service Platforms for Social Care and e-Health.
Chiara Ghidini
Chiara Ghidini is a senior Research Scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy, where she heads the Process & Data Intelligence (PDI) research unit. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science Engineering in a joint programme between the Università “La Sapienza” of Rome and the University of Trento.
Her scientific work in the areas of Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering and Representation, Multi-Agent Systems and Process Mining is internationally well known and recognised, and she has made significant scientific contributions in the areas of: formal semantics for contextual reasoning and multi-context logics; formal frameworks for the specification of deliberative resource bounded agents; ontology mappings and integration; collaborative modeling platforms, and predictive business process monitoring.
Dr. Ghidini has actively been involved in the organisation of several workshops and conferences on multiagent systems, Contexts-based representations, Knowledge Engineering, and Semantic Web, and has served as programme committee member for most of the top international conferences in these areas.
She has been involved in a number of international research projects, among which the FP7 Organic.Lingua and SO-PC-Pro European projects, a well as industrial projects in collaboration with companies in the Trentino area.
Tony Givargis
Tony Givargis is a Computer Science Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he is currently serving as the Department Chair. From 2011 until 2016, he served as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Information & Computer Sciences at UCI. He received his BS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He Co-Founded a VC-backed technology startup in 2013 and has served as an expert witness in a number of high profile legal proceedings. Professor Givargis conducts research in the general area of embedded systems with an emphasis on system software, advanced compilation for targeted applications, computational storage devices, accelerators and high dimensional computing. He has authored over 120 peer reviewed papers, is a named inventor on 13 issued US patents and has co-authored two popular textbooks on embedded systems design. Professor Givargis has received numerous teaching, service and research awards, including the Frederick Emmons Terman Award, presented annually to an outstanding young electrical engineering educator by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Andrew R Gray
I am a biostatistician in the Biostatistics Centre at the University of Otago, a role I have held since 2004. Most of my work involves collaborating on a wide range of research projects in the health sciences, particularly in paediatric obesity, sleep, and physical activity; respiratory epidemiology, mostly asthma and COPD; dentistry; and health systems. I also work on statistical methods research, mostly topics inspired by these collaborations.
Prior to my current position I was a software metrics and machine learning researcher in the Department of Information Science at the same institution.
Varun Gupta
Varun Gupta received his Doctorate (cum laude) in Organizational Engineering, Doctorate (International/European Doctorate, Cum Lade) in Economics and Business Management, as well as in Computer Science and Engineering. He also earned his MBA (General), Máster en Dirección Internacional de Empresas, Master of Technology (By Research) in Computer Science & Engineering, and Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering.
He is a Professor of Digital Innovation and Head of the Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Innovations in SMEs (MrciS) at Gisma University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany. Previously, he was associated with University of Toronto (Canada), Leicester University (United Kingdom), Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), Software Engineering Research Group (SERG), Lund University (Sweden), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway), Poznań University of Technology (Poland), Uniwersytet Szczeciński (Poland).
Prof. Gupta is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access (an SCIE Indexed publication of IEEE), PeerJ Computer Science (an SCIE-indexed publication of PeerJ), PLOS One (an SCIE-indexed publication of PLOS), International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering & Technology (Scopus-indexed publication of Inderscience Publishers), IEEE Software blog, and Journal of Cases on Information Technology (ESCI & Scopus Indexed publication of IGI Global), and is a former editorial team member of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) (an SCIE indexed publication of Wiley). Prof. Gupta has worked on multiple projects that have been supported by various agencies such as the European Union and the Spanish National Programme. His area of interest is evidence-based software engineering, innovation management, Digital Transformations and Innovation, Technology Adoptions in SMEs, entrepreneurship, and international business management.
Ahmed E Hassan
Ahmed E. Hassan is the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Software Analytics, and the NSERC/BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale systems at the School of Computing in Queen's University.
He spearheaded the organization and creation of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference and its research community. He is the named inventor of patents at several jurisdictions around the world including the United States, Europe, India, Canada, and Japan.
Marieke Huisman
Marieke Huisman is a professor in Software Reliability, leading the Formal Methods and Tools group at the Univ. of Twente, Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from the Univ. of Nijmegen, in the area of semantics and verification of sequential Java programs. She worked 8 years at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France on verification of concurrent programs. In 2008 she joined the UT. She leads the development of the VerCors program verifier for concurrent software. For this work, she has received the support of several personal grants, such as an ERC Starting Grant, and a Vici grant from the Dutch Science Organisation. She has been chairing Versen, the Dutch association of software researchers, and works hard to improve the overall visibility of software research.
Martina Iammarino
Martina Iammarino is a Tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technologies at Pegaso University in Naples.
She holds a Laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 2019 and a PhD degree in Information Technology for Engineering from the University of Sannio in 2023.
Her research focuses on software engineering, data quality, and process engineering, with a growing emphasis on artificial intelligence. Specifically, her work in AI has been pivotal in addressing challenges in the medical field, with a special interest in Parkinson's disease. Through the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques, her research has advanced understanding and innovation in diagnosing, monitoring, and managing this neurodegenerative disorder.
She has published extensively on AI methodologies applied in various domains and has contributed to the AI and healthcare research community as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals.
In addition to serving on the program committee of several international conferences, Martina Iammarino is an Editorial Board Member for the journal Peerj, and is also one of the main organizers of the CISE Workshop "Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering" held at PROFES 2023.
Gail E Kaiser
Prof. Kaiser's research interests lie at the boundary of software engineering and software systems, focusing on software reliability, privacy and security, and social software engineering. She served on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing for many years, was a founding associate editor of ACM TOSEM, and chaired an ACM FSE Symposium. She has directed her department's doctoral program since 1997. Prof. Kaiser received her PhD from CMU and her ScB from MIT.
Gregory M Kapfhammer
Focusing on software engineering, software testing, and data science, Gregory M. Kapfhammer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Allegheny College.
Pengcheng Liu
Pengcheng Liu is a member of IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Bio Robotics, Soft Robotics, Robot Learning, and Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. Dr Liu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, PeerJ Computer Science, and he received the Global Peer Review Awards from Web of Science in 2019, and the Outstanding Contribution Awards from Elsevier in 2017. He has published over 70 papers on flagship journals and conferences. He was nominated as a regular Funding/Grants reviewer for EPSRC, NIHR and NSFC and he has been leading and involving in several research projects and grants, including EPSRC, Newton Fund, Innovate UK, Horizon 2020, Erasmus Mundus, FP7-PEOPLE, NSFC, etc. He serves as reviewers for over 30 flagship journals and conferences in robotics, AI and control. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, automatic control and optimization.
Antonia Lopes
Antónia Lopes is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, since March 2006. She received a Ph.D. in Informatics at the University of Lisbon in 1999 and holds a BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Technical University of Lisbon. Her research interests are mainly in the area of formal methods for software engineering. These include mathematically based techniques for the specification, modelling and analysis of various types of software intensive systems.