Guests

Karthik Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor at the Software Engineering Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad, India, and part of the leadership team for the Smart City Living Lab. He holds a Ph.D. from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, and completed a postdoc at the University of L’Aquila. His research lies at the intersection of software architecture and AI, with a focus on sustainable and self-adaptive systems and defining effective practices for architecting AI-enabled software. He contributes to academic communities through reviewing, organizing roles in conferences, and as an editorial board member of IEEE Software (SE Radio). Karthik also has over five years of industry experience in building and deploying machine learning systems.

    • Presentation Date: 24 February 2025
    • Title: Navigating the crossroads of GenAI and SE

Grace Lewis | Author Profile, CMU Software Engineering Institute Grace Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), where she leads applied research in evolving software engineering and architecture for emerging technologies. She heads the Integrated Test and Evaluation for ML Capabilities project and several others focused on Software Engineering for Machine Learning (SE4ML). Grace also leads the Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems (TAS) team at SEI, developing solutions for AI at the edge, particularly in resource-constrained, tactical environments. She is President-Elect of the IEEE Computer Society and serves on the IEEE AI Coalition. Grace holds degrees from Icesi University, Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

    • Presentation Date: 24 February 2025
    • Title: Testing ML-Embedded Systems

Luís CruzLuís Cruz is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at Delft University of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto, Portugal. He is the Scientific Manager of the AI-for-Fintech Research lab, collaborating with ING. Dr. Cruz focuses on Green AI and Sustainable Software Engineering, with notable work on design patterns and tools for energy-efficient software, receiving a Most Influential Paper award at MOBILESoft 2023. He also writes extensively and assists organizations in training staff in sustainable software practices.

June SallouJune Sallou is an assistant professor in the Information Technology Research Group at Wageningen University & Research. Her research focuses on software engineering and sustainability, and she investigates how approximate computing can be applied to develop more sustainable (scientific) (AI-based) software systems. As a researcher studying and developing software, she feels a strong responsibility to contribute to providing solutions to tackle climate change challenges and limiting computing resource consumption in ICT.

António Rito Silva - ECSA 2025António Rito Silva is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, and a researcher in Distributed Parallel and Secure Systems at INESC-ID. His research focuses on software architectures for microservices, digital humanities, and business process management, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. António teaches Software Engineering and Software Architecture and is engaged in projects such as migrating monoliths to microservices and systems simulation.

Davide Taibi is a full Professor at the University of Oulu in Finland, leading the M3S Cloud research group. His research centers on empirical software engineering, focusing on cloud-native systems and the migration from monolithic applications.

 Valentina Lenarduzzi is an Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland, specializing in contemporary software development   practices, including data analysis, software quality, maintenance, and Technical Debt. Dr. Lenarduzzi has served on program committees   for various international conferences and journals in software engineering and was recognized by the Journal of Systems and Software as   one of the most active SE researchers from 2013 to 2020.

Silverio Martínez-FernándezSilverio Martínez-Fernández is an Assistant Professor at UPC-BarcelonaTech since January 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2016–2018) and a project manager at Fraunhofer IESE in Germany (2018–2019). His research interests include Empirical Software Engineering, Green AI, AI-based systems, Software Analytics, and Reference Architectures. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and has an h-index of 18 (Google Scholar). Silverio has led work packages in EU projects like Q-Rapids and participated in DESIRA. He has co-chaired several international conferences and workshops and serves on the editorial board of IET Software. He is also an active reviewer for top journals and a program committee member for major software engineering conferences.

Xavier Franch - REFSQ 2025Xavier Franch is a Full Professor at UPC and a leading researcher in software and requirements engineering. His research focuses on requirements engineering, software quality, decision-making in software projects, and empirical software engineering. He has coordinated major EU projects like Q-Rapids and SUPERSEDE, serves on several editorial boards and conference committees, and is a member of Academia Europaea and IREB.