Mauro Pezzè is a professor of software engineering at USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, CIT - Constructor Institute of Technology, Schaffhausen, Switzerland and Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy. Mauro Pezzè coordinates the STAR - Software Testing and Analysis research Lab, a joint research team at USI and Constructor Institute. Mauro Pezzè is member of the ACM Publishing board, has been editor in chief of ACM TOSEM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, and served in the editorial board of IEEE TSE Transactions on Software Engineering and STVR, the International Journal of Software Testing, Analysis and Verification. He served as program chair of ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering, in 2012, and program and general chair of ISSTA, the ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, in 2006 and 2013, respectively. He is the co-author of an influential book ‘Software Testing and Analysis, Process, Principle and Techniques, and is known for his work on software testing, program analysis, self-healing and self-adaptive software systems.