Prof Bashar Nuseibeh, Lero

Lero professor takes top international award

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Pictured: Prof Bashar Nuseibeh, Lero

16 April 2015

Prof Bashar Nuseibeh of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has been named recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Based in the US, ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with more than 100,000 members from industry, academia and government institutions around the world.

The ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) Distinguished Service Award is made to an individual who has contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community. It will be presented in May at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering in Florence, Italy.

Prof Nuseibeh, who is also professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick and a professor of Computing at The Open University, UK, won the award for service contributions to the software engineering community, including major editorial responsibilities in top journals and chairing of major technical events.

His specialist research areas include software design to manage privacy and security in complex systems, including critical cyber-physical systems and social media.

Lero, which is supported by Science Foundation Ireland, consists of researchers from Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin and University of Limerick.

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