Ivica Crnkovic is a professor at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and director at Area of Advance ICT at Chalmers University. His research interests include component-based software engineering, software architecture, software configuration management, software development environments and tools, as well as software engineering in general. Professor Crnkovic is the author of more than 200 refereed articles and papers on software engineering topics and a co-author and co-editor of two books: “Building reliable component-based Systems” and “Implementing and integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management”. He has co-organized several software engineering conferences ( ICSA 2017, ECSA 2015, ASE 2014, CBSE symposium and COmpArch Federated Conference 2011, ESEC/FSE 2007, etc.) and was a PC chair of several conferences (COMPSAC, ECSA, CBSE, Eurmicro SEAA, etc.). He is the general chair of ICSE 2018. From 1999 to 2014 he was a professor at MDH, where he is still a part time professor. He is also a visiting professor at Osijek University, Croatia. From 1985 to 1998 he worked at ABB, Sweden, where he was responsible for software development environments and tools. Professor Crnkovic received an M.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1979, an M.Sc. in theoretical physics in 1984, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1991, all from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. More information is available on http://www.ivica-crnkovic.net/.