Open University
Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Computing at The Open University, UK. Until last year, he was Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero – Ireland’s national centre for software research. He holds honorary and visiting professorships at UCL, NII (Japan) and UCD (Ireland). He was recently appointed as Research Pillar Chair of the UK’s Responsible AI (RAI) programme.
Bashar’s research lies at the intersection of software engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. His work also addresses physical and psychosocial aspects of technology. He is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy, and an ERC Proof of Concept grant that contributed to the commercialisation of his patented innovations.
Bashar has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Springer’s Automated Software Engineering Journal, and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and he chaired the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
His work has been recognised with major awards, including from ICSE, Leverhulme, the Royal Society and the IET. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, and is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.
Bashar also co-edited the recent open access textbook An Introduction to Digital Humanism.