Invited Speakers

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Dejan Ničković is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Digital Safety and Security of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).

His research interests include cyber-physical systems, runtime verification, testing, contract-based design, and real-time systems.

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Sebastian Elbaum is the Lowell Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia where he co-leads the Lab for Engineering Safe Software (LESS Lab). He aims to build dependable autonomous systems. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award, an IBM Innovation Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, an Amazon Scholar recognition, an FSE Test of Time Award, multiple ACM SigSoft Distinguished and best paper awards. He regularly serves in program committees at the top software engineering and robotic conferences, and has served as Program Co-Chair for ISSTA, ESEM, and ICSE, and as Steering Committee Chair for ICSE. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Emerging Computing Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations connecting autonomous systems and AI with policy in national security. He is a council member for the CRA Computer Community Consortium. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

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Son Tong is an R&D Manager at Siemens, working on ADAS, Digital Twin, and AI. His work focuses on algorithm development, testing, and validation in the automotive industry.

He currently leads an R&D team of research engineers and industrial Ph.D. students working on control, AI, generative AI, simulation, and autonomous driving.

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Fabrizio Pastore is an Associate Professor / Chief Scientist II at the SnT Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust of the University of Luxembourg.

His research interests concern Software Engineering and, more specifically, Automated Software Quality Assurance. He works with embedded and cyber-physical systems, AI-enabled components, and mobile devices. His research contributions concern DNN testing and explanation, requirements-driven testing, model-based testing, metamorphic testing, security testing, anomaly detection, and fault localization.

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Dr. Sigrid Eldh leads research on Quality and Software Test at Ericsson AB in Stockholm and has worked at Ericsson since 1994.

She is also a Senior Lecturer at Mälardalen University and an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

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Dr. Nicola Franco is Research Director and directs the AI Security (AIS) Lab.

He is a former research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems in Munich, where he worked on adversarial machine learning and collaborated with industry partners and public agencies.

He holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning, awarded cum laude, from the Technical University of Munich, and received the Best Paper Award in AI Safety at IJCAI 2023.

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Wissam Mallouli is a cybersecurity expert, researcher, and technology leader currently serving as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Montimage, a Paris-based company specializing in network monitoring and security solutions.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (cybersecurity) from Télécom & Management SudParis, France, obtained in 2008, and an engineering degree in telecommunications. Mallouli has extensive experience in network security, software testing, and AI-driven cybersecurity.

His work focuses on areas such as intrusion detection, automated security testing, risk management, and resilient systems for 5G, IoT, and cloud environments. He is actively involved in numerous European research and innovation projects, contributing to the design of AI-assisted and trustworthy cybersecurity solutions, particularly for SMEs.

In addition to his industrial role, he contributes to academia through publications, teaching, conference organization, and training activities, helping bridge the gap between research and real-world cybersecurity applications.

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Dr. Gül Çalikli is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Software Engineering at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

Her research field is empirical software engineering, with a focus on human aspects, data analytics, and machine learning. Her vision is to enhance software practitioners’ decision-making and improve software quality through techniques based on cognitive psychology and human-in-the-loop ML systems.

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Ezio Bartocci is a Full Professor at TU Wien, where he leads the Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (TrustCPS) Research Group within the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Unit.

His research focuses on formal methods and computational tools for ensuring the safety, security, energy efficiency, and correctness of AI-based cyber-physical systems, with a strong emphasis on sustainability.

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Ken E. Friedl is an engineer and researcher at BMW Group, Germany.

His work focuses on Data Science, Conversational AI, and Robotic System Integration, with applications in intelligent and autonomous automotive systems.

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Lev Sorokin is a Researcher at BMW Group, where he currently focuses on testing for Generative AI.

He has a background in formal methods and software engineering, with research interests in the validation of dependable systems. His previous work at fortiss included simulation-based testing, runtime monitoring, and assurance cases for safe autonomous systems.