Foutse Khomh is a Full Professor of Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair on Trustworthy Machine Learning Software Systems, an NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellow, and an FRQ-IVADO Research Chair on Software Quality Assurance for Machine Learning Applications. He received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Montreal in 2011, with the Award of Excellence. He also received a CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2019. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, machine learning systems engineering, cloud engineering, and dependable and trustworthy ML/AI. His work has received four ten-year Most Influential Paper (MIP) Awards, and seven Best/Distinguished Paper Awards. He initiated and co-organized the Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) symposium and the RELENG (Release Engineering) workshop series. He is co-founder of the NSERC CREATE SE4AI: A Training Program on the Development, Deployment, and Servicing of Artificial Intelligence-based Software Systems and one of the Principal Investigators of the DEpendable Explainable Learning (DEEL) project. He is also a co-founder of Quebec's initiative on Trustworthy AI (Confiance IA Quebec) and Scientific co-director of IVADO. He is on the editorial board of multiple international software engineering journals (e.g., IEEE Software, EMSE, JSEP) and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta é Professor Associado do Instituto de Computação da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Doutor (2006) e Mestre (2002) em Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação pela COPPE/UFRJ, e Bacharel (1999) em Informática pelo IM/UFRJ. Além disso, é bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa nível D e Cientista da FAPERJ. Já publicou em torno de 50 artigos em periódicos e 150 em congressos, tendo ganho diversos prêmios, dentre eles dois ACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Award, no ASE 2006 e no MSR 2019, e o prêmio de melhor artigo do SBES nas edições de 2009, 2014, 2016, 2020 e 2022. Ele foi membro do comitê de programa do ICSE 2014 e coordenador do comitê de programa do SBQS 2009, SBES 2015, ICSE NIER 2019, AICCSA 2019 e CIbSE 2020, entre outras. Também é editor associado do JBCS desde 2013 e foi editor chefe do JSERD de 2017 a 2020. Tem experiência na área de Ciência da Computação, com ênfase em Engenharia de Software. Seus principais campos de atuação são Gerência de Configuração e Proveniência. Mais informações podem ser obtidas em http://www.ic.uff.br/~leomurta.
Nicole Novielli is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bari, Italy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of software engineering and affective computing with a specific focus on emotion mining from software repositories, natural language processing of developers’ communication traces, and biometric recognition of developers’ emotions. She was the Program co-Chair of the 19th Int. Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022) and the 30th IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2023). She is a member of the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal (Springer) and the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier).