Leading researcher joins University of Luxembourg

(CS) Leading software systems engineer, Prof Lionel Briand, has received the FNR PEARL Grant to establish a software verification and testing laboratory at the University of Luxembourg.

The Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR) will be supporting Briand's venture with 4.6million euros over the next five years.

Prof Briand, a Canadian and French citizen, has been repeatedly ranked one of the top five software systems engineering researchers by the journal of Systems and Software. He will be joining the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), holding a professorship and setting up a software verification and validation (V&V) laboratory.

As industries and everyday life become more and more dependent on software programmes, from cars to medical devices, logistics and communications, reliable software systems are becoming increasingly important.

With the hope to perform research with a high impact on society and industry, the laboratory will explore reliable software verification and test technologies.

Briand studied and earned his doctorate in Paris, and has worked in France, the US, Germany, Canada, and Norway, where he held his last position as the scientific director of the Certus Center at Simula Research Laboratory.