Name:Eduard C. Groen

Bio:

Eduard C. Groen is a Senior Requirements Engineer and Project Manager at the Department of Digital Innovation Design at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His work predominantly focuses on designing digital ecosystems in a wide variety of domains.

He holds a master’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Engineering Psychology from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Alongside his work, he is pursuing his PhD on the topic of “Crowd-based Requirements Engineering” at Utrecht University, the Netherlands under Prof. Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper, which focuses on the derivation of functional and non-functional requirements from natural language texts. At RE’21, he will present a paper that demonstrates the successful use of deep learning for this purpose.

He has previously co-chaired the REFSQ’20 Posters & Tools track, and has co-organized the CreaRE (2017–2021), CrowdRE (2017, 2019–2020), and AIRE (2018) workshops. He currently co-organizes CrowdRE’21, is a Program Committee member for the RE’21 Industry Innovation track and the NLP4RE’21, SEmotion’21, REWBAH’21, RE4ES’21 und AffectRE’21 workshops, and an incumbent Steering Committee member of AIRE and CrowdRE.

Country:Germany

Affiliation:Fraunhofer IESE

Research interests:Requirements Engineering, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology