Bashar Nuseibeh is a Professor of Computing at The Open University, UK, where he served as Director of Research, and is head of its software engineering and design group. Previously, he was Professor & Chief Scientist of Lero – Ireland’s national centre for software research, and Associate Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London, where he served as founder and Head of its Software Engineering Laboratory. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London, and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, and at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.
Bashar’s current research interests lie at the intersection of requirements engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. His research work crosses a number of discipline boundaries, including software engineering, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, security & privacy, and most recently social psychology 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 the international commercialisation of his work.
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 is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology, and ACM Books. He chaired the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and IFIP Working Group 2.9 on Requirements Engineering.
Bashar received many awards for his work including an ICSE Most Influential Paper Award, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award, an IET Innovation Award for Cyber Security, and many best/distinguished paper awards. 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), and the Irish Computer Society (ICS). He is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy. More information at: https://nuseibeh.lero.ie