Meike Klettke
(University of Regensburg, Germany)
Keynote Title: Evolution of Relational Databases, NoSQL and Graph Databases
Keynote Abstract: TBA
Bio: Meike Klettke is a Full Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany and since 2022 Research Dean of her faculty. She earned her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Rostock in 1998 and her Habilitation in 2007 at the same university. Her current research focuses on NoSQL and graph database evolution, evolution in data engineering processes, monitoring and profiling in non-relational databases, and schema and constraint extraction from data. She authored numerous publications in international conferences, workshops and journals on these subjects, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, EDBT, SIGMOD, CAiSE, ER conference, MoDELS conference and VLDB workshops. She is speaker of the database group of the German Informatics Society since 2022.
Wesley K. G. Assunção
(North Carolina State University, USA)
Keynote Title: The Future of Software Engineering is in your hands, and I believe in you!
Keynote Abstract: TBA
Bio: Wesley K. G. Assunção is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, USA. Previously, Wesley was a University Assistant in the Institute of Software Systems Engineering at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2021-2023); a Postdoctoral Researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019-2023); and an Associate Professor at Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Brazil (2013-2020). He obtained his MSc (2012) and PhD (2017) in Computer Science from Federal University of Paraná also in Brazil. His main research interests are software modernization, variability management, software quality, model-driven engineering, collaboration in systems engineering, software testing, and application of AI/ML to support software development. Wesley has collaborated with industries, government agencies, practitioners, and researchers from several countries, such as Brazil, Austria, USA, Spain, Canada, Germany, and France. He is currently co-editor of the In Practice track at the Journal of Systems and Software and has also been serving as reviewers for multiple conferences and journal, and as organizer of conferences, symposiums, workshops, competitions, and meetings. Further information: https://wesleyklewerton.github.io
Marsha Chechik
(University of Toronto, Canada)
Keynote Title: Assuring Product Lines
Keynote Abstract: TBA
Bio: Marsha Chechik is Professor and former Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where she holds Bell University Labs Chair in Software Engineering. In 2022, she served as Acting Dean in Faculty of Information. Her research interests are in the application of formal methods to improve the quality of software. She has co-authored numerous papers in formal methods, software specification and verification, computer safety and security, and requirements engineering. She is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.9 on Requirements Engineering, an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal on Software and Systems Modeling. She has been Program Committee Chair of top software engineering and verification conferences: ASE’14, ESEC/FSE’21, TACAS’16, ICSE’18, FM’23, MODELS’24. She is Fellow of ACM, Fellow of Automated Software Engineering and Chair of ACM SIGSOFT.