- Publication: Compositional Active Learning of Synchronizing Systems through Automated Alphabet Refinement (CONCUR 2025, Best paper award)
- Publication: Accelerating Finite State Machine-Based Testing using Reinforcement Learning (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024)
- Publication: Conformance Relations and Hyperproperties for Doping Detection in Time and Space (Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2022)
- Publication: Learning by Sampling: Learning Behavioral Family Models from Software Product Lines (Empirical Software Engineering, 2021)
- Publication: Logical Characterisation of Hybrid Conformance (ICALP 2020)
- Publication: On the Search for Industry-Relevant Regression Testing Research (Empirical Software Engineering, 2019)
- Book: Modeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems (MIT Press, 2014)
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral researcher at Reykjavik University
- Assistant and associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
- Guest faculty member at Delft University of Technology
- Professor of Computer Systems Engineering at Halmstad University
- Guest professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers / University of Gothenburg
- Professor of Data-Oriented Software Engineering at the University of Leicester
Background
- Professor of Software Engineering
- Main research area: Model-based testing (particularly applied to software product lines, cyber-physical systems, and quantum systems), verification (particularly model-checking), concurrency theory (particularly process algebra and Structural Operational Semantics)
- Leads the Software Systems Group
- Research interests include validation, verification, and certification of healthcare and automotive systems
Miscellany
- Engages with policy-makers and the general public, writes policy notes, and organizes outreach activities on the theme of Trust in Autonomous Vehicles
- Featured in Aljazeera, BBC Radio 4, BBC Leicester Radio, and Discovery Education
- Actively participates in the TeenTech program, promoting science, technology, and engineering among children