Professor Bashar Nuseibeh

Biography

I am a Professor of Computing at The Open University (Director of Research, 2002-2008). Previously, I was a Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist at Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (2009-2012). I was also an academic member of staff (Reader) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and Head of its Software Engineering Laboratory (1990-2001). I continue my association with Imperial College as a Visiting Professor, and maintain strong research links with the Distributed Software Engineering Group. I am also a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. I am currently holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award(2013-2018) and a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy (2012-2017), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2010-2013) and the Automated Software Engineering Journal (1995-2008). Previously, I also held a Senior Research Fellowship from The Royal Academy of Engineering and The Leverhulme Trust (2005-2007).

Research Interest

My research interests are broadly in software engineering, particularly in the areas of requirements engineering and design, with a special interest in applications in security, privacy and digital forensics. My technical research is currently focused on engineering adaptive software that underpins many mobile and ubiquitous computing technologiues of today, and my research methods are often empircal and multidisciplinary, a particular aim of which is to understand the interplay between security and human behavior. My research thus aims to improve the development of both cyber-physical systems and socio-technical ones.