Parnas Fellows to visit Lero software research centre
Two of the world’s top software engineers will share their expertise with researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, as part of the David Lorge Parnas Fellowship scheme.
Prof Daniela Damian, Professor of Software Engineering and the ECS-CAPI Chair in Inclusive Science, Technology & Engineering at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Prof Hongyu Zhang of the School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, China, are the latest recipients of the prestigious Fellowship.
Lero director Prof Lionel Briand said: “These fellowships, established to honour Prof David Parnas, have brought world-class software researchers and developers here to interact with our research teams all over Ireland. Daniela and Hongyu will each deliver much anticipated distinguished lectures while at Lero.
“The fellowship programme has enabled Lero to attract some of the best software researchers in the world to Ireland to share their experience and expertise with Lero researchers at our 12 partner higher education institutions nationwide.”
Fellowship recipient Prof Zhang has also worked at University of Newcastle, Microsoft Research Asia, and Tsinghua University. He received his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore in 2003. His research is in software engineering, in particular, intelligent software engineering, software analytics, and software maintenance.
“Ireland’s reputation as a global technology hub and Lero’s world-class software research makes this a really attractive fellowship. I am honoured to receive it and am really looking forward to sharing knowledge with my fellow researchers,” said Prof Zhang.
The central theme of Prof Zhang’s research is to improve software quality and developer productivity by mining software data. He has published more than 250 research papers in reputable international journals and conferences and received eight ACM distinguished paper and best paper awards.
Prof Zhang is a general co-chair of APSEC 2024 and ICSME 2020 and an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Systems and Software, and Automated Software Engineering. He is a distinguished member of ACM, a distinguished member of CCF, and a fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).
Prof Damian researches human and collaborative aspects of software engineering, global software engineering, requirements engineering, diversity and inclusion in software teams, and software education.
In 2022 Prof Damian founded INSPIRE:STEM for Social Impact, a programme supported by a consortium of industry and community partners, which engages students from the University of Victoria as well as Asia in community-driven, sustainability-focused experiential projects to develop skills, connections, and a supporting network for the underrepresented talent in science, technology and engineering. Prof Damian received the 2019 Royal Society New Zealand Catalyst: International Leader Award and the 2020 Provost’s REACH Award for Excellence in Experiential Teaching at the University of Victoria. She served as programme chair at several ACM/IEEE conferences, including the International Conference on Software Engineering in 2022, and as a member of the editorial and advisory boards of the top-ranked journals in software engineering.
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