Lionel Briand


Lionel Claude Briand is a software engineer, and professor at the University of Ottawa and University of Luxembourg. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance and a European Research Council Advanced grantee. His research foci are testing, verification, and [Verification and Verification and validation (software)|validation (software)|validation] of software systems; applying machine learning and evolutionary computation to software engineering; and software quality assurance, among others. He was vice-director of the University of Luxembourg's SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust from 2014 to 2019, and editor in chief of Empirical Software Engineering from 2003 to 2016.
In 2012, he was the recipient of the Harlan D. Mills Award.
In 2022, he was the recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

Selected research