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I am professor of software production in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I am principal investigator in the department’s Requirements Engineering lab.
In my research, I blend artificial intelligence with information visualization in order to increase the quality of the requirements engineering process and artifacts. I devise software tools that assist human analysts and stakeholders in eliciting, expressing and analyzing requirements. Most of my research is validated empirically via experiments and/or collaboration with software companies.
I served as program co-chair of IEEE 2023, REFSQ 2021, and RCIS 2020. I was the organization chair for the REFSQ 2018 conference, I am an associate editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal and the Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal, and I am on the steering committee of the IEEE RE and REFSQ conferences. I regularly serve on the program committee of international conferences such as RE, CAiSE, AAMAS, REFSQ, ER, ICSE.
Before joining Utrecht University in 2013, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada (2012-2013) and previously at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy (2011-2012). I obtained a Ph.D. from the same university (2006-2011) in the area of self-adaptive systems.
Contributions
2025
Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
2024
Requirements Engineering
- New Faculty Symposium Co-Chair in Programm Committee within the New Faculty Symposium-track
- Author of Deriving Domain Models from User Stories: Human vs. Machines within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Evaluating classifiers in SE research: the ECSER pipeline and two replication studies within the Journal-First-track
- New Faculty Symposium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
2023
Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
- Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair in Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs within the Doctoral Symposium-track
- Committee Member in Programme Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Summarization of Elicitation Conversations to Locate Requirements-Relevant Information within the Research Papers-track
2022
Requirements Engineering
- Session Chair of Big Data and Business Processes (part of Industrial Innovation Papers)
- Author of Back to the Roots: Linking User Stories to Requirements Elicitation Conversations within the RE@Next! Papers-track
- Committee Member in Workshop Committee within the Workshops-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ)
- Author of How Effective Is Automated Trace Link Recovery in Model-Driven Development? within the Research Papers-track
- Committee Member in Programme Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of Guided Derivation of Conceptual Models from User Stories: A Controlled Experiment within the Research Papers-track
- Session Chair of Formalization and NLP (part of Research Papers)
- Committee Member in Panel of Experts within the Doctoral Symposium-track
2021
Requirements Engineering
- Author of CrowdRE in a Governmental Setting: Lessons from Two Case Studies within the Industrial Innovation Papers-track
- Author of Refining User Stories via Example Mapping: An Empirical Investigation within the Industrial Innovation Papers-track
- Author of Adopting Agility in a Requirements-driven Project Environment within the Ceremonies & Panels-track
- RE@Next! Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of Keynote: “On the Value of CrowdRE in Research and Practice” within the Workshops-track
- Committee Member in Workshop Committee within the Workshopsx-track
- Speaker of Agile Requirements Engineering: from User Stories to Software Architectures within the Tutorials-track
- Committee Member in Workshop Committee within the Workshops-track
- Committee Member in Track Co-Chairs within the RE@Next! Papers-track