Organizing Committee

Alessio Ferrari, CNR-ISTI, Italy

Alessio Ferrari is Research Scientist at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (CNR-ISTI), Italy. He received a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Florence in 2011. His research focuses on natural language processing (NLP) applied to requirements engineering, and on empirical studies on requirements elicitation interviews. He is co-author of more than 60 publications in international conferences and journals, including IEEE RE, REFSQ, REJ, EMSE and IEEE Software. He has been part of the RE PC and ICSE PC, local organisation co-chair of REFSQ'20, and will be PC co-chair of REFSQ'22. He is one of the creators and co-organisers of the NLP4RE workshop, co-located with REFSQ'18-'22, and co-organiser of AIRE'20.

Hans-Martin Heyn, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Hans-Martin Heyn is a postdoc researcher at the Division of Interaction Design and Software Engineering (IDSE), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. He received a PhD in Marine Technology from the Norwegian University of Science Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. His work concentrates on developing architectures for distributed systems, and requirement engineering methods for (distributed) systems with machine learning components. His research interests include functional safety, especially for systems using machine learning, Bayesian methods, fault diagnosis, and decision theory.

Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Ottawa, Canada

Mehrdad Sabetzadeh is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa. Sabetzadeh received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. His main research interests are in software engineering with an emphasis on AI-enabled requirements engineering, model-based development, and regulatory compliance. Sabetzadeh is passionate about fostering stronger ties between academia and industry; in the past decade, he has conducted most of his research in close collaboration with industry partners. His experience spans several sectors, including government, finance, legal services, telecommunications, maritime, energy, aerospace, railways, and automotive. Sabetzadeh has co-authored more than 70 scientific papers and secured more than 6M of research funding as lead investigator. He regularly serves on the organizing / program committees of several international conferences such as RE, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, and MODELS.

Program Committee

Sallam Abualhaija, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Chetan Arora, Deakin University, Australia

Fatma Başak Aydemir, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada

Markus Borg, RISE SICS AB, Sweden

Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Neil A. Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada

Henning Femmer, Technical University Munich, Germany

Davide Fucci, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy

Smita Ghaisas, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services

Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine, USA

Jin Guo, McGill University, Canada

Emitzá Guzmán, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Frank Houdek, Daimler AG, Germany

Oliver Karras, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany

Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology, China

Soo Ling Lim, University College London, UK

Silverio Marínez-Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Mona Rahimi, Northern IIllinois University, USA

Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Andreas Vogelsang, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Liping Zhao, The University of Manchester, UK