Lionel C. Briand

Welcome to the personal homepage of Prof. Lionel C. Briand; Canada Research Chair (Tier1), IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. 

I currently have shared appointments between the Nanda Laboratory, EECS Department, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Lero, the national Irish centre for software research hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland, that I lead as director. One of my objectives is to create synergies between the two institutions. 

My main research interests and expertise are:

You can contact me through one of the following emails:

Notable Recognitions and Awards
Research Philosophy

"What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Fail. Try again. Change the world."- Simon Sinek

Conferences in software engineering: Reflections after 30 years  - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Here are two short papers (paper1, paper2) summarising my views on software engineering research. 

Interview in ACM SE notes (2021)

My ICSE 2022 Keynote address video (starts at 34 min): "Mathematicians, Social Scientists, or Engineers? The Split Minds of Software Engineering Researchers"

A great paper by Ben Schneiderman: "Twin-Win Model: A human-centered approach to research success".