Invited Keynote Speakers




Jeronimo Castrillon
Technische Universität Dresden
Jeronimo Castrillon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the TU Dresden, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CfAED), the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig (ScaDS.AI), the 6G-life Hub, and the Barkhausen Institut. He is the head of the Chair for Compiler Construction, with research focus on programming and design methodologies as well as computer architectures for complex emerging computing systems. He received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Pontificia Bolivariana University in Colombia in 2004, his masters degree from the University of Lugano in Switzerland in 2006 and his Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing.) with honors from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2013. In 2014, Prof. Castrillon co-founded Silexica GmbH/Inc, a company that provided programming tools for heterogenous architectures, now with Xilinx/AMD. In 2023, he co-founded Xronos, a company that develops tools and services for safe cyber-physical systems. Prof. Castrillon has more than 150 international publications, is Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member ACM, and is a member of the editorial board of the ACM TODAES, IEEE TC, and IEEE ESL. In 2025 he received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).




Tayana Conte
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Prof. Tayana Conte is a leading researcher in Software Engineering, Human Factors, and User Experience, with extensive contributions to the design, evaluation, and adoption of software-intensive systems. She is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil, where she leads the USES (UX and Software Engineering) Research Group. Her research focuses on understanding how humans interact with complex software and AI-enabled systems, combining empirical methods, behavioral perspectives, and human-centered design principles. She has published more than 300 scientific papers, supervised over 45 graduate students, and established strong international collaborations. Tayana serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD) and as Associate Editor of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Science of Computer Programming (SCP), and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). In 2023, she became the first Latin American recipient of the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Education Award.