Dr Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin
Michela has been a college lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics of University College Dublin since September 2000. Previously she worked at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.

Research Interests: Analysis and development of relation-based models for the representation of spatial configurations and to the progressive transmission of vector geo-spatial data over the World-Wide Web.

Personal Web Page: http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/mbertolotto/home

Dr Goetz Botterweck, University of Limerick
Dr Goetz Botterweck is a Senior Researcher at Lero, University of Limerick where he is leading the projects on Model-driven Product Derivation and Visualisation of Software Product Lines.

Research Interests: Model-Driven Software Engineering, Software Product Lines, Domain-Specific Languages, Model-based Engineering of Embedded Systems, User Interface Engineering, Web Engineering, Information Systems

Dr Jim Buckley, University of Limerick
Jim has co-organized a number of international conferences and workshops. He currently coordinates two research projects at the University: one in the area of software visualization and the other in architecture-centric re-engineering and evolution.

Research Interests: Software evolution and software re-engineering processes.

Personal Web Page: http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/JimBuckley

Dr Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin
Andrew is the group leader of the Foundations & Methods Group, was active in the Irish Formal Methods Special Interest Group (IFMSIG), a programme committee member and former co-chair for IWFM. Also a member of the Irish Mathematical Society.

Research Interests: Formal Methods and Functional Languages.

Personal Web Page: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield

Dr Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin
Siobhán is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, where she leads the Distributed Systems Group and acts as Course Director for the M.Sc. in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems).

Resarch Interests: Design and programming models for mobile, embedded, context-aware systems; services-oriented computing; aspect-oriented software development.

Personal Web Page: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Siobhan.Clarke/

Professor Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin
Vinny is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Trinity College Dublin, where he is the Research Director for the School of Computer Science and Statistics.

Research Interests: Distributed systems particularly middleware, programming models for ubiquitous and mobile computing with application to intelligent transportation systems and personal healthcare/independent living, distributed object computing.

Dr Rem Collier, University College Dublin
Rem Collier is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin (UCD). He is currently the 4th Year Coordinator for the undergraduate programme.

Research Interests: Multi-Agent Systems, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Agent Programming Languages and Toolkits, Adaptive Agent Systems, Information Retrieval.

Personal Web Page: http://www.agentfactory.com/~rem

Dr Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Gavin Doherty is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Distributed Systems Group. He is involved in human computer interaction research in a number of domains, including healthcare, mental health and manufacturing. He also works on interaction design methods for speech and language based applications.

Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design Methods, Visual Decision Support and Visualization, Reasoning about Complex Interactive Systems, Mobile Systems.

Personal Web Page: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Gavin.Doherty

Dr Michael English, University of Limerick
Michael lectures on a broad range of software engineering topics in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department, University of Limerick. He is a member of the course team for the PhD in Software Engineering and the MSc in Software Engineering.

Research Interests: Defining and applying software metrics in software engineering to help improve software quality, maintenance and evolution processes and practices. Empirical studies in software engineering. Source code analysis. Software Visualisation. Graph Drawing.

Dr Chris Exton, University of Limerick
Chris has worked extensively in the commercial software development field in a variety of different institutions including software houses, manufacturers and food retailers.

Personal Web Page: http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/chrisexton/

Dr Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University
Geoff is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing, Dublin City University, where he is a member of the Dependable Systems Research Group. He is also a member of the Irish Formal Methods Special Interest Group.

Research Interests: Program Transformation, Inductive Theorem Proving, Program Verification, Automatic Program Construction

Personal Web Page: www.computing.dcu.ie/~hamilton

Professor Matthew Hennessy, Trinity College Dublin |
Matthew is a research professor in Computer Science, leading an SFI funded project into the foundations of global computing. Before coming to Trinity he was professor of Computer Science at the University of Sussex, and a lecturer at the University of Sussex.

Research Interests: Semantics of computation, in particular behavioural theories of concurrent, distributed and mobile systems. Specification techniques and verification technologies for assuring the behaviour of systems. Also interested in the design and implementation of high-level languages for specifying, programming and verifying concurrent activities.

Personal Web Page: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Matthew.Hennessy/

Professor Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick
Mike is Co-Director of Lero and Professor of Software Engineering.   Formerly he was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory and has held positions as full professor in several other countries prior to returning to Ireland. He is Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing and Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems.   He is also Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 1 (Foundations of Computer Science) and currently chairs the IFIP Technical Assembly.

Research Interests: Formal Methods, Autonomic Systems, Biologically-Inspired Computing, Dynamic Software Product Lines, Software Reliability Engineering.

Professor Joe Morris, Dublin City University
Before coming to DCU Joe was a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and the University of Glasgow. Previously, he has worked for Irish Life in Dublin, Siemens in Munich, Olivetti in London, and Tektronix in Oregon, U.S.A.

Research Interests: Constructing high-quality computer software, especially software in which users can have a very high confidence that it performs according to specification. He is especially interested in developing mathematical methods of extracting guaranteed correct programs from formal specifications. Other areas of interest include concurrency and formal logic.

Personal Web Page: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~jmorris

Dr John Murphy, University College Dublin
John is an IBM Faculty Fellow, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineering with the IEI, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, as well as being a member of the ACM, IEE and a European Engineer with FEANI.

Research Interests: Performance Engineering, Telecommunication Systems, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Mobile Networks, Queueing Theory.

Personal Web Page: http://csiweb.ucd.ie/Staff/jmurphy/default.htm 

Professor Liam Murphy, University College Dublin
Liam is currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science at University College Dublin, where he is Director of the Performance Engineering Laboratory.

Research Interests: Performance issues in component-oriented software systems.

Personal Web page: http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/lmurphy/home

Professor Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin
Paddy is the Professor of Distributed Systems; Deputy Head of School - Research and Innovation.

Research Interests: Pervasive Computing; Adaptive Information; Autonomic Computing;
Middleware; Applied Formal Methods.

Personal Web Page: http://www.ucd.ie/research/workingatucd
/researchertestimonials/paddynixon

Dr Mel Ó Cinnéide, University College Dublin
Mel is a lecturer in Computer Science in University College Dublin where he is also director of the MSc programme in Advanced Software Engineering.

Research Interests: Software Reengineering; Refactoring; Design Patterns; Agile Processes;Search-based software engineering.

Personal Web Page: http://csiweb.ucd.ie/Staff/AcademicStaff/meloc 

Dr Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University
Rory is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Dublin City University. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Iceland and a member of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/ Working Group 24 on Lifecycle Profiles for VSE (Very Small Enterprises).

Research Interests: Software Process and Software Process Improvement (SPI), particularly in small and very small companies/settings; Software Project Management; Software Quality; and Methods, Techniques and Tools for supporting the work of software project managers and software developers.

Personal Web Page: http://www.dcu.ie/info/staff_member.php?id_no=1467

Dr Claus Pahl, Dublin City University
Claus is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Dublin City University where he is also director of the MSc programme in Software Engineering.

Research Interests: Service Engineering; Software Composition; Software Architecture; Quality-based Software Engineering; Model-driven Service Architecture; Architecture Migration and Re-engineering.

Personal Web Page: http://computing.dcu.ie/~cpahl

Dr Norah Power, University of Limerick
Norah is the Course Director of the B.Sc. in Computer Systems at the University of Limerick, where she lectures on systems analysis, the Z notation along with SQL, and software testing and inspection, but particularly software requirements engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Research Interests: Software engineering practice, especially context-driven or situated requirements practices. Requirements engineering, software skills and software testing.

Personal Web page: http://www.b4step.ul.ie/web/Norah.Power

Dr Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin
Aaron is a Principal Investigator, Technology Platform for the TRIL Centre (Technology Research for Independent Living). He is the Course Director for the Higher Diploma in Computer Science He is the UCD Director of ODCSSS, the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School.

Research Interests: Pervasive Computing and Visualisation. In particular, human computer interaction, multi-modal interfaces, gesture recognition, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, ad-hoc networking, location based systems, context awareness, information visualisation, software evolution, reverse engineering and software visualisation.

Personal Web Page: http://www.csi.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home

Dr Ita Richardson, University of Limerick
Ita is Project Leader on Global Software Development for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -GSD for SMEs and a member of the S-Cube Project (EU FP7 Network of Excellence).

Research Interests: Software Process Improvement and its implementation in Industry, especially in small (< 50 employees) companies, Global Software Development, focusing on Small Companies as part of the chain of development, Software Process Improvement within the Automotive and Medical Device domains, Software, Services and Systems - Quality, Business Process Modelling.

Personal Web Page: http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/ItaRichardson

Professor Kevin Ryan, University of Limerick
Prior to becoming Centre Director for Lero, Kevin was Vice President Academic and Registrar of the University of Limerick (1999-2004) and founding Dean of the College of Informatics and Electronics (1994-1999).

Research Interests: Software engineering and in particular in design methods, programming environments, requirements capture and the software process.

Personal Web Page: http://www.staff.ul.ie/kevinryan

Dr David Sinclair, Dublin City University
David is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Dublin City University,where he is a member of the Dependable Systems Research Group. David is the Lero Research Area Leader for Mathematics Applied to Software Engineering.

Research Interests: Applied formal methods, The design and verification of multi-processor systems (distributed and embedded), System security, Distributed system technologies, Artificial intelligence in strategic games.

Personal Web Page: www.computing.dcu.ie/~davids