About Me

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I am Associate Professor (accredited to Full Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. I received my Ph.D in Computer Science from the UPV in 2004. Earlier, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, (USA) in 2010 and 2012, the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2007 and 2017, and Ghent University (Belgium) in 2006. My main areas of expertise are software quality, quality assurance in model-driven engineering, the empirical assessment of software modeling approaches and the integration of usability/UX into software development. I has been the principal resercher in eighteen research projects/contracts involving academic and industrial partners. In particular, I lead the MULTIPLE (Mutimodeling approach for quality-aware software product lines) project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation with close collaboration with the Rolls-Royce Software Centre of Excellence. More recently, I has led the Spanish Network of Excellence on Software Quality and Sustainability, and the Adapt@Cloud project aimed at providing a user-centred framework for supporting the dynamic adaptation of cloud-based systems. I have (co)authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications. From 2011 to 2017 I was the Spanish Editor of ERCIM News, a scientific magazine of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. Currently, I am Associate Editor for IEEE Software and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). I am also 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 have served 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 I am currently the MODELS Steering Committee Chair.

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Current research projects:

 

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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.

 

Recent/Forthcoming events I am involved in:

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• 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.

• ICSE 2021:  43th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering,  May 22 - 30, 2021, Madrid, Spain

• ISD 2021:  29th International Conference on Information Systems Development, 8-10 September 2021, Valencia, Spain.

• MODELS 2021: ACM/IEEE 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 10-15 October 2021, Fukuoka, Japan.

• JISBD 2021:  25th Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases, 22-24 September 2021, Málaga, Spain.

• MODELS 2020: ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 16-23 October 2020, Virtual conference.

• MODELS 2019: ACM/IEEE 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 15-20 September 2019, Munich, Germany.

• ICSE 2019: 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering,  May 25 - June 1, 2019, Montréal, Canada

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Recent special issues of journals:

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

• Special Section on the Best Papers from 23rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2020), Abrahão S., De Lara J., Sahraoui H. A., Syriani E. (Eds.), Software and Systems Modeling, Springer, 2002.

 

News:

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• I am the Guest Editor in Chief for a new Continuous Special Section on Human-Centric Software Engineering at TOSEM. Download the flyer here.

• In 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 Science). 

• In 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.

 

Further info:

My CV(Full version, in English)

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