Bashar Ahmad Nuseibeh (born 1967) is a computing engineer who currently holds a number of roles. He is professor of computing at The Open University, a professor of software engineering at the University of Limerick, and chief scientist of the Irish Software Research Centre Lero. He is also an honorary professor at University College London and the National Institute of Informatics,

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Career

Nuseibeh studied at the University of Sussex where he received a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering in 1988. He then moved to Imperial College London to complete his MSc, which he was awarded in 1989. He remained at Imperial College London for the next decade, firstly to complete his PhD in Software Engineering in 1994, before becoming a postdoctoral researcher. He received his lectureship in 1996, and was promoted to reader in 2000. In 2001, Nuseibeh moved to the Open University as professor of computing, where he was director of research from 2002 to 2008. From 2009 to 2012, he took a secondment to Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre, as professor of software engineering and chief scientist. In recent years, Nuseibeh has become a leading expert in privacy and security in the field of

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...

. As a result he received two

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

(ERC) grants, including an Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy. His research included award-winning work into adaptive privacy. He was a visiting professor at Imperial College, and is currently a visiting professor at both University College London (UCL) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He is also a professor at the University of Limerick.

Recognition

*Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

(RAEng). *Member of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...

(RIA). *Fellow of the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

(BCS). *Fellow of

Irish Computer Society Irish Computer Society was founded in 1967 as the professional representing information and communication technology professionals in Ireland. Its objective is to promote professional information and computer skills. The ICS is a member of the C ...

(ICS). *Fellow of the

Institution of Engineering & Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...

(IET). *Member of Academia Europaea. *Automated Software Engineering Fellow *Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award. *Senior Research Fellow of the

. *

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...

. *Most Influential Paper Award at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). *ACM SigSoft Distinguished Service Award *IFIP Outstanding Service Award

References

External links

Personal Webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nuseibeh, Bashar A. 1967 births Living people Alumni of the University of Sussex British computer scientists Academics of the Open University Bashar Ahmad Alumni of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London Members of the Royal Irish Academy