IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

We are pleased to announce the two annual award winners that will be honored at the awards banquet in Colorado Springs:

Prof. Lionel Briand – IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year for 2013 "for achievements in model-based software verification and testing"


• Prof. Lionel Briand’s biography:

Lionel C. Briand is professor and FNR PEARL chair in software verification and validation at the SnT centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust, University of Luxembourg. Lionel started his career as a software engineer in France (CS Communications & Systems) and has conducted applied research in collaboration with industry for more than 20 years.

Until moving to Luxembourg in January 2012, he was heading the Certus center for software verification and validation at Simula Research Laboratory, where he was leading applied research projects in collaboration with industrial partners. Before that, he was on the faculty of the department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he was full professor and held the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Software Quality Engineering. He has also been the software quality engineering department head at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany, and worked as a research scientist for the Software Engineering Laboratory, a consortium of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CSC, and the University of Maryland, USA.

Lionel has been on the program, steering, or organization committees of many international, IEEE and ACM conferences. He is the coeditor-in-chief of Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) and is a member of the editorial boards of Systems and Software Modeling (Springer) and Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability (Wiley). He was on the board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering from 2000 to 2004.
Lionel was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for his work on the testing of object-oriented systems.
He was recently granted the IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills award for his work on model-based verification and testing. His research interests include: software testing and verification, model-driven software development, search-based software engineering, and empirical software engineering.

Mr. Alfred Stevens – IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award "for achievements in Reliability on the US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile System and NASA's Space Shuttle Program"

Both Lionel and Alfred are very well deserving of this honor. Congratulations to the award winners!