Recipient of the Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award (2019).
Ranked among the top-20 most impactful experienced software engineering researchers worldwide over the past decade by the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).
General Chair of IEEE ICST 2013 and IEEE ISSRE 2004; Program Chair of IEEE QRS 2016.
Author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications in top venues including ISSTA, ICSE, TSE, PLDI, Usenix Security, and TIFS.
Serves on editorial boards of STVR, SoSym, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
Supervised work that received the Best Paper Award at KDD 2020 Health Day for 'Data-driven Simulation and Optimization for Covid-19 Exit Strategies'.
Background
Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg, specializing in software engineering with a focus on software testing, software security, and data-intensive systems.
Currently Vice-Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and Head of the SerVal research group (SEcurity, Reasoning and VALidation), comprising around 25 researchers.
Served as Head of the CSC Research Unit (Department of Computer Science) from 2013 to 2016.
Research interests include: innovative testing, debugging, and repair techniques; Android security using static code analysis and machine learning; and design of robust machine learning-based systems.
Research is applied in collaboration with industry partners in Fintech (BGL BNP Paribas, PayPal), Smart Grid (CREOS), and Industry 4.0 (Cebi).
Director of Studies for the Master in Information System Security Management (MSSI) and co-founder of Datathings, a University of Luxembourg spin-off providing advanced AI software for scalable runtime decision-making.