Information

Membership Number: FCA3535

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***iand@uottawa.ca; *****l.briand@lero.ie

Homepage(s): https://www.lbriand.info/ 

https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-engineering/school-electrical-engineering-computer-science/directory/lionel-briand 

Present and Previous Positions

Professor of Software Engineering, University of Ottawa.

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance, University of Ottawa.

Director, Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Software Engineering; Software Testing and Verification; Software Quality Assurance; Requirements Engineering; Empirical Software Engineering; AI for Software Engineering; Software Engineering for AI

Professor Briand’s scholarship lies at the intersection of rigorous software engineering research and the practical demands of trustworthy digital systems. His work has addressed the validation and verification of software, model-based testing, requirements analysis, software quality assessment, and the use of artificial intelligence and search-based methods in software engineering. He has also contributed significantly to the development of empirical methods in the discipline, helping to strengthen software engineering’s methodological foundations while keeping close contact with real industrial environments. 

A notable feature of his career is the continuity with which he has worked across academic research and industrial collaboration. Over many years, he has led collaborative projects with partners in such sectors as automotive, satellite, aerospace, energy, finance, and law, with a recurring focus on how complex software systems can be made more reliable, secure, and fit for critical use. In recent years, his work has increasingly engaged questions related to intelligent software systems, compliance, and the interaction between software engineering and AI.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science (2023).
Member of Academia Europaea, Section of Informatics (elected 2025).
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2020).
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2010).
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2022).
IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award (2012).
IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award (2013).
Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (2024).
ICSE Most Influential Paper Awards (2015; 2021).

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zj897NoAAAAJ

Other Information

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