About Me

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I am Full Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, where I also serve as Director of the Master's Degree in Software Systems Engineering and Technology. I received my Ph.D in Computer Science from the UPV in 2004. Previously, I was a visiting professor at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 and 2012, Université catholique de Louvain in 2007 and 2017, and Ghent University in 2004. My current research interests include the use of AI techniques to support the adaptation of user interfaces, human factors in software engineering, quality assurance in model-driven engineering, empirical assessment of software modeling approaches and the integration of usability/UX into software development. I have been Principal Researcher in eighteen research projects/contracts involving academic and industrial partners. In particular, I have led the MULTIPLE (Mutimodeling approach for quality-aware software product lines) project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation in close collaboration with the Rolls-Royce Software Centre of Excellence. More recently, I have led the Spanish Network of Excellence on Software Quality and Sustainability, and the UCI-Adapt project aimed to provide a user-centric framework to support the intelligent  adaptation of software systems. I have (co)authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications. From 2011 to 2017 I was the Spanish Editor of ERCIM News, the scientific magazine of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. Currently, I am Senior Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) and an Associate Editor for IEEE Software,and Automated Software Engineering (AUSE). I also serve as Departments Editor for IEEE Software and Co-Editor of its Practitioner’s Digest department. Additionally, I serve on the Editorial Board of the Springer journal Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) and on the Advisory Editorial Board of the Wiley Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE). I also served as Editor-in-Chief for the TOSEM's Continuous Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering, which given its success, has now become a regular area within the journal. I have been actively involved in organizing more than thirty international conferences in various capacities, including serving as General Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2014), PC-Co Chair of MODELS 2020 and Chair of the MODELS Steering Committee. Currently, I am the ACM-W: ACM Women in Computing Rising Star Award Committee Chair.

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         Lastest News:

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• May 2024: I have been selected as the next ACM-W Rising Star Committee Chair. I will join the ACMs Women in Computing-leadership team and coordinate the ACM-W Rising Star Award. Learn more about ACM-W Awards here.

• April 2024: I have been selected as an expert evaluator for the EIC Pathfinder OPEN 2024 call, European Innovation Council - the Europe’s flagship innovation programme of the European Commission.

• December 2023: I joined the Automated Software Engineering  (AUSE) journal as Associate Editor.

• September 2023: I have been appointed Director of the Master's Degree in Software Systems Engineering and Technology from the Department of Computer Science at UPV.

• April 2023: I have been selected as an expert evaluator for the EIC Pathfinder OPEN 2023 call, European Innovation Council - the Europe’s flagship innovation programme of the European Commission.

• February 2023: I joined TOSEM as Guest Editor-in-Chief for a new Continuous Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering. Download the flyer here.

• January 2023: I have been invited to serve as Co-editor of the IEEE Software Practitioner’s Digest Department.

• June 2022: I have been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

• March 2022: I have been included in a ranking of the Best Women Scientists in Spain elaborated by the CSIC , being the 12 out of 53 women scientists of the Universitat Politècnica de València included in this ranking (and the first place out of 10 scientists of the Department of Computer Systems and Computation - DSIC). 

• February 2019: I have been selected among the “50 most Distinguished Women Scholars at the UPV” for my scientific contributions (4 faculty members from the Department of Computer Science). See news at the UPV website and Levante.

• August 2018: I have been selected as an Associate Editor for IEEE Software through an open call that received 110 applications! 

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Current research projects:

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• AEQUITAS: Assessment and Engineering of Equitable, Unbiased, Impartial and Trustworthy AI Systems, Granted by the European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme (Horizon-RIA), 2022/11 to 2025-10. 

• AIDEAS: AI Driven industrial Equipment product life cycle boosting Agility, Sustainability and Resilience, Granted by the European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme (Horizon-IA), 2022/10 to 2025-09.

• SINCOE: Supporting Innovation Competence Development in Online Education, Granted by the European Commission, Erasmus + Finish National Agency for Education, 2022/07 to 2025/06.

• AKILA: User Interface Adaptation through User-Experience-based Reinforcement Learning, Granted by the Generalitat Valenciana, 2022/01 to 2024/12.

• CALESI: Spanish Network of Excelence on Software Quality and Sustainability, Granted by Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2023/06 to 2025/06.

• TASOVA-PLUS: Spanish Network on New Trends in Software Architecture and Variability, Granted by Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2023/06 to 2025/06.

 

Recent/Forthcoming events I am involved in:

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• SE 2030: Software Engineering in 2030 Workshop co-located to FSE 2024 in Porto de Galinhas, Brasil - An ACM TOSEM workshop to define a roadmap for software engineering for the next decade.

• MODELS 2024: ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 22-27 Septiembre 2024, Linz, Austria.

• ESEM 2024: 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 20-25 October 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

• CHASE 2024: 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, co-located with ICSE 2024, 14-15 April 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

• MODELS 2023: ACM/IEEE 26th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 1-6 October 2023, Västerås, Sweden.

• ESEM 2023: 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, October 26-27, 2023, New Orleans, LA, United States.

• EASE 2023: Int ernational Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 14-16 June 2023, Oulu, Finland.

•  MODELS 2022: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 23-28 October 2022, Montreal, Canada.

• ICSE 2022:  44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering,  May 21 - 29, 2022, Pittsburgh, USA.

• ASE 2022:  37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 26 September - 1 October 2022 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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Recent special issues of journals:

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• We are soliciting papers for the Special Issue on Next-Generation Model-Based Software Engineering with Foundation Models, Information and Software Technology,  Di Sipio C., Abrahão S., Weyssow M., Palomba F. (Eds.), Elsevier, 2025.

• Special Issue on "From Idea to Impact: Connecting Research and Practice", IEEE Software, C, Ebert, S. Abrahao and V.  S. Mani (Eds.), IEEE Computer Society, March/April 2024 (Deadline: September 4, 2023).

• Research Trends in Engineering Software-Intensive Systems: Journal of Systems and Software, A. Martini, M. Wimmer, M. Felderer, S. Abrahão (Eds.), Elsevier, 2022.​

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Recent books:

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• Abrahão S., Calero C. (Eds) Quality and Sustainability of Information Systems in Practice. RA-MA, 2022, 588 p. (in Spanish)

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Further info:

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• My CV (Full version, in English)

• My CV (Short version, in Spanish)

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