Bashar Nuseibeh

Bashar Nuseibeh is a Professor of Computing at The Open University, UK, where he served as Director of Research, and currently heads its software engineering and design research group. He is also an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and is a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Previously, he was a Professor Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre. He was also a Reader (Associate Professor) and then a Visiting Full Professor of Computing at Imperial College London, where he founded and headed its Software Engineering Laboratory.  Bashar received his BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Sussex (1988), and his Masters (1989) and PhD (1994) in software engineering from Imperial College London, UK.

His research lies at the intersection of requirements engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. Over the last three decades, his work has evolved from the formal specification and analysis of software requirements, and the technical assurance of evolving software-intensive systems, to the study of socio-technical systems that address technology users and social concerns. Bashar’s work crosses discipline boundaries, both within and outside computing, and is motivated by, and applied in, a variety of practical problem domains. His work received recognition in multiple disciplinary communities including software engineering, logic programming, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and security & privacy. He is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy, and a follow-up ERC Proof of Concept grant that contributed to substantial industrial and commercialisations of his work, including contributions to the security re-design of European airspace, and access control and vulnerability analysis technologies embedded in security products installed in over 90 countries.

Bashar served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the Automated Software Engineering Journal, and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. He chaired the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and was Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.9 on Requirements Engineering.

His research received an ICSE Most Influential Paper Award, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, and an IET Innovation Award for Cyber Security. He also received an IFIP Outstanding Service Award, an ACM SigSoft Distinguished Service Award, and a Requirements Engineering Lifetime Service Award. He is an Automated Software Engineering Fellow and a Fellow of the (UK) Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), the British Computer Society (BCS), the Irish Computer Society (ICS). He is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.

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