Chair Research Pillar
Bashar Nuseibeh is a Professor of Computing and Head of Software Engineering and Design at The Open University. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist of Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre – and Head of the Software Engineering Laboratory at Imperial College London. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. In recent years Bashar’s interdisciplinary research has focused on responsible software engineering and on the engineering of resilient socio-technical and cyber-physical systems.
He has received many research and service awards across multiple disciplines, including research awards in software engineering, logic programming, security & privacy, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. He is the recipient of the 2025 Harlan D Mills Award. Bashar’s work has been supported continuously by UKRI for over 30 years (including an EPSRC Platform Grant), with €120M+ additional peer-reviewed funding from wide range of other sources, including the European Research Council (ERC) (for Advanced and Proof-of-concept Grants) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) (for 4 major Centre awards). His research has been applied or commercialised in domains including air traffic control, security & policing, and health & social care. He has held many senior editorial positions including serving as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has published over 300 papers and 5 patents, and recently co-edited an open access textbook on an Introduction to Digital Humanism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM, BCS, ICS & IET, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. For more information, see: Bashar Nuseibeh