Keynotes EASE 2020 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Professor Tracy Hall
Keynote: Rigorous Versus Relevant Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Thursday 16 April 2020
Tracy will discuss the current state of Empirical Software Engineering and the challenges facing researchers in Software Engineering now and the future. Progress made over the last 20 years to improve the rigour of empirical studies will be addressed as well as the progress that remains to be made to ensure that empirical software engineering research produces reliable scientific outputs. The influence of collaborations, peer review and publication strategies in empirical software engineering will also be touched on. Tracy will discuss the challenge of making empirical software engineering research relevant to industry and the importance of authentically engaging with software engineering practitioners. Although empirical software engineering has made great strides forward there remain many areas in which progress is needed to ensure that research outputs are genuinely useful to the software engineering community.
Bio: Tracy Hall is a Professor in Software Engineering at Lancaster University. Previously she was a Professor and Head of the Computer Science Department at Brunel University London. Professor Hall’s expertise is in Software Engineering research. Over the last 20 years she has conducted many empirical software engineering studies with a variety of industrial collaborators. Her current research activities focus on software fault prediction and the development of tools for use by software engineers. She has published over 100 international peer reviewed journal and conference papers and has won numerous best paper awards. Professor Hall has been Principal Investigator on a variety of EPSRC projects. She is Associate Editor for the Information Software Technology Journal and the Software Quality Journal. She has contributed to various conference organizing committees and is a long standing member of many international conference programme committees. Professor Hall has been a member of the EPSRC Peer College for many years and has a current google scholar h-index of 36. Professor Hall is a highly experienced academic. She has delivered many different Computer Science subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has extensive experience of course development and course management. Tracy is an experienced University leader having held a number of leadership roles.
Professor Hall's main research interests are in software engineering. In particular in the analysis of code and the detection, prediction and repair of defects in code. She is particularly intersted in automatic approaches to defect repair. Her interests also include software testing and the human factors in relation to the developers producing code. In particular the errors developers make that result in faults in code.
Professor Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Keynote: Changing Academic Life: sharing experiences and strategies
Friday 17 April 2020 in the morning
It doesn’t matter with whom you talk or what country or institution they come from, almost every academic will say that the nature of academic work is changing significantly and that the pressure (however that is experienced) is increasing. The reasons are complex and there can be a feeling that there is little we can do about it. Building on the Changing Academic Life podcast series <http://www.changingacademiclife.com>, I continue the discussions about what we can do to change academia for the better. What are the qualities and values we care about and want to argue for; what experiences and strategies can we start sharing? It is up to us to start to shape a new agenda for personal, institutional and cultural change – albeit recognising that each level operates at different time-frames and with different opportunities. In the end, we can all be much more reflective about how we shape the future of our profession by our own actions and about how we can effect change at all levels, from what we can directly control to what we can influence. This will be critical to the long-term sustainability of academia and a good quality of life for ourselves, our students and peers.
Bio: Geraldine Fitzpatrick is a full Professor of Technology Design and Assessment and leads the Human Computer Interaction group at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). She holds a PhD in CS&EE and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. She was previously Director of the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex, a User Experience consultant at Sapient London (a business and technology company), and a Senior Researcher at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre and the Centre for Online Health in Australia. Prior to undertaking her Information Technology degree at the University of Queensland in Australia, she worked in various clinical settings as a nurse/midwife. Her research is at the intersection of social and computer sciences, using mobile, tangible and sensor-based technologies in everyday contexts. Particular interest areas include how to support: collaboration and social interaction; social and emotional skills learning; selfcare, health and well-being; sustainability; and active engagement for older people. She has extensive experience in inter-disciplinary research projects, contributing expertise in the application of qualitative and mixed methods approaches to the design and evaluation of technologies in situ.
Geraldine is a member of the ACM Distinguished Member Committee, the ACM CHI Steering Committee (and previously the ACM CSCW Steering Committee). She has also served as: general co-chair of CHI2019, papers co-chair for CSCW2018, CHI2010 and CHI2011; Subcommittee co-chair CHI2009; Video co-chair CSCW2004; Showcase co-chair CSCW2011; Exploratory Papers co-chair PDC2006; Associate program chair CHI03, 05, 06, CSCW02, 06, 13; Doctoral Colloquium chair Ubicomp06, CSCW13, C&T13, Group14, Interact15. She is also the IFIP TC-13 Austrian representative. She has delivered over 30 invited keynote addresses at international conferences and forums, over 50 other invited scientific presentations, a TEDx talk, and invited lectures at numerous international summer schools. She has served on the editorial board of a number of journals. She has been/is also a member of various other steering committees, advisory boards and evaluation panels for international projects and informatics-related faculties. She is the founder and host of the Changing Academic Life podcast series.
Oscar Centeno
Keynote: Data-Driven transparency establishes a data-driven approach to continuous improvement.
Friday 17 April 2020 in the afternoon
In the business environment, we’re currently operating in, change is inevitable. Disruptions, increase in complexity, and constant market change are causing companies to change, to adapt, and Volvo Cars is no exception. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2018, Justin Trudeau said “… the pace of change has never been this fast — yet it will never be this slow again.” Although what he said was not in the context of the automotive industry it is still a reflection that applies to us all. The rise of technological innovations such as electrification, autonomous driving, and connectivity – to name a few, makes everything more complex and uncertain, and we, therefore, need to find ways to adapt and deliver the speed and product quality that customers expect. With an agile R&D, we will have capabilities to be more responsive to the changing environment and be able to meet customer needs faster and be more flexible. This capability is ultimately dependent on our ability to capture, enhance and disseminate information across our organization so that everyday decisions are based on a common view of the world. But in an agile world, information is short-lived. A common view of how to make decisions on data, and how we use data to guide our day-to-day work is one necessary component to reap the full benefits of our agile vision. Data-Driven Transparency (DDT) is an initiative within Volvo Cars aiming at transforming its R&D operations into an organization characterized by data and transparency, and where the main focus is performance dialogues and continuous improvement.
Bio: Oscar Centeno is a Program Manager and Change Leader within Volvo Cars. He has 10+ years of experience in the automotive industry in different areas, crash simulation, organizational and change leadership, and management. During the last years, Oscar has worked with organizational change initiatives focused on operational performance steering, leading a very cross-functional team with stakeholders from all across R&D.