Lionel C. Briand is a professor of software engineering and has shared appointments between (1) The University of Ottawa, Canada and (2) The SnT Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust, University of Luxembourg. In collaboration with colleagues, over 25 years, he has run many collaborative research projects with companies in the automotive, satellite, aerospace, energy, financial, and legal domains. Lionel has held various engineering, academic, and leading positions in six countries. He was one of the founders of the ICST conference (IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, a CORE A event) and its first general chair. He was also EiC of Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) for 13 years and led, in collaboration with Victor Basili and then Tom Zimmermann, the journal to the top tier of the very best publication venues in software engineering.

Lionel was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 2010 for his work on object-oriented testing systems. He was granted the IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills award and the IEEE Reliability Society engineer-of-the-year award for his work on model-based verification and testing, respectively in 2012 and 2013. He received an ERC Advanced grant in 2016 — on the topic of modelling and testing cyber-physical systems — which is the most prestigious individual research award in the European Union. Most recently, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) on “Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance”. His research interests include software testing and verification, applications of AI in software engineering, model-driven software development, requirements engineering, and empirical software engineering.