About

Bashar Nuseibeh a Professor of Computing and Head of Software Engineering & Design at The Open University, UK. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Previously he was is a Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre, and an Associate Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London and Head of of it’s Software Engineering Laboratory.

Bashar’s software engineering research interests lie at the intersection of requirements engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. In recent years, he has focused on human and social factors in computing, working across the disciplinary boundaries of software engineering and social psychology, and publishing in both communities and their applications areas, such as in healthcare & well-being, crime & policing, and sustainability.

Bashar was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and Springer’s Automated Software Engineering Journal. He has received many awards for his work, including the IEEE Computer Society’s Harlan D Mills Award in 2025. He received two European Research Council (ERC) grants including an Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, the ACM, IET, BCS, ICS, and is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.