Strategy and Membership

Our research uses “industry as its laboratory” and is focussed on applied Software Engineering in an industrial context, where distributed systems engineering and secure systems engineering are essential concerns. We contribute to the fundamentals of Software Engineering through our research on architectures, evolution, requirements and reuse.

This group brings together international researchers in a number of areas of Software Engineering research:

Academic Staff

Prof. Hussein Zedan: Software Engineering
Dr. Haris Mouratidis : Secure Systems, Requirements Engineering
Dr. Baravalle, Andres : Usability, Web Technologies
Dr. Bashroush, Rabih : Software Architectures, Cloud Computing
Dr. Falcarin, Paolo : Services Engineering, Software Protection
Dr. Islam, Shareeful : Requirements Engineering, Risk Management, Security & Privacy
Dr. Kans Aaron : Formal Methods, Safety-Critical Software
Kretsis, Mike : Green IT, Virtualization
Dr. Lee, Sin Wee : Data Mining, Neural networks
Malik, Gaurav : Mobile Computing , Web Technologies, Green IT
Dr. Naeem, Usman : Pervasive Computing, Operating Systems
Dr. Sakellari, Georgia : QoS, Self-aware networks Energy-aware Networks
Dr. Tawil, Abdel-Rahman : Knowledge Engineering, e-Health
Dr. Tartary, Christophe : Network Security
Dr. Zhang, He : Software Process

PhD Students

Tanveer Ahmed, Anthony Gayle, Nazanin Gheidi, William Kapuku-Bwabwa, Moussa Ouedraogo, Michalis Pavlidis, Maryam Yarandi, Ahmmad Youseff, Fatemeh Zarrabi

Publications

The DSE group has published more than 170 papers in International Journals, Books, and Conference Proceedings; the updated full list of papers is available.

Current Projects

Members of the group have recently submitted applications for funding to national (such as EPSRC, TSB) bodies as well as European bodies (EU FP7, ERC) and they are participating in successfull projects including the FP7 project PANDORA, the Powerchex Ltd. Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), and the DefTrust EPSRC/British Telecom (BT) funded project.

The group is building a research portfolio that will strengthen its visibility internationally and it will allow the team to extend their external collaborators base and submit applications for funding at future EU, EPSRC, TSB calls. We are looking to establish collaborations with other Software Engineering groups, software user organisations, such as the NHS, and industrial partners.