Lionel Briand

Lionel Claude Briand
CitizenshipCanadian, French
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTrustworthy AI, Software engineering, software testing, verification and validation, requirements engineering, model-driven engineering, applied artificial intelligence
Workplaces
Websitewww.lbriand.info

Lionel Claude Briand is a Canadian-French software engineer and computer scientist. Since January 2024 he has been professor of software engineering at the University of Limerick and director of Lero, the Irish national research centre for software.[1][2] He holds a joint appointment at the University of Ottawa, where he is the Distinguished Research Chair in Trustworthy AI-Enabled Software Systems and leads the Nanda laboratory,[3][4] having held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance there from 2019 to 2026.[4]

From 2012 to 2024 Briand was a professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he headed the software verification and validation department of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and served as the centre's vice-director from 2014 to 2019.[5][6] Further, He was a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) from 2004 to 2017.[7]

His research includes Trustworthy AI, the testing, verification and validation of software systems, requirements engineering, model-driven engineering, and the application of machine learning and evolutionary computation to software engineering problems, much of it carried out in collaboration with industry.[8]

He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2010[7] and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2020, with a citation for contributions to automated software testing.[9] He received the Harlan D. Mills Award in 2012[7] and the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2022,[10] and was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2016.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023,[11] a member of Academia Europaea, Informatics section, in 2025,[6] and a member of the inaugural class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy in 2026.[12] Two of his papers have received the ICSE Most Influential Paper award, in 2015 and 2021.[13]

Awards and honours

Selected Publications

  • Wang, Guancheng; Xu, Qinghua; Briand, Lionel C.; Liu, Kui (2026). "Mutation-guided unit test generation with a large language model". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 52 (5): 1657–1671. doi:10.1109/TSE.2026.3682975.
  • Etezadi, Romina; Abualhaija, Sallam; Arora, Chetan; Briand, Lionel C. (2026). "Classifier or prompt: a case study on legal requirements traceability". Empirical Software Engineering. 31 (4): 85. doi:10.1007/s10664-026-10827-1.
  • Aghababaeyan, Zohreh; Abdellatif, Manel; Briand, Lionel C.; Ramesh, S. (2025). "DiffGAN: a test generation approach for differential testing of deep neural networks for image analysis". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51 (12): 3284–3309. doi:10.1109/TSE.2025.3611329.
  • Yousefizadeh, Hossein; Gu, Shenghui; Briand, Lionel C.; Nasr, Ali (2025). "Using cooperative co-evolutionary search to generate metamorphic test cases for autonomous driving systems". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51 (6): 1882–1911. doi:10.1109/TSE.2025.3570897.
  • Saboor Yaraghi, Ahmadreza; Holden, Darren; Kahani, Nafiseh; Briand, Lionel C. (2025). "Automated test case repair using language models". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51 (4): 1104–1133. doi:10.1109/TSE.2025.3541166.
  • Sharifi, Sepehr; Stocco, Andrea; Briand, Lionel C. (2025). "System safety monitoring of learned components using temporal metric forecasting". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34 (6): 1–43. doi:10.1145/3712196.
  • Fatima, Sakina; Hemmati, Hadi; Briand, Lionel C. (2024). "FlakyFix: using large language models for predicting flaky test fix categories and test code repair". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50 (12): 3146–3171. doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3472476.
  • Abbasishahkoo, Amin; Dadkhah, Mahboubeh; Briand, Lionel C.; Lin, Dayi (2024). "TEASMA: a practical methodology for test adequacy assessment of deep neural networks". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50 (12): 3307–3329. doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3482984.
  • Pan, Rongqi; Ghaleb, Taher Ahmed; Briand, Lionel C. (2024). "LTM: scalable and black-box similarity-based test suite minimization based on language models". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50 (11): 3053–3070. doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3469582.
  • Sharifi, Sepehr; Shin, Donghwan; Briand, Lionel C.; Aschbacher, Nathan (2023). "Identifying the hazard boundary of ML-enabled autonomous systems using cooperative coevolutionary search". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49 (12): 5120–5138. doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3327575.
  • Zolfagharian, Amirhossein; Abdellatif, Manel; Briand, Lionel C.; Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba; Ramesh, S. (2023). "A search-based testing approach for deep reinforcement learning agents". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49 (7): 3715–3735. doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3269804.
  • Aghababaeyan, Zohreh; Abdellatif, Manel; Briand, Lionel C.; Ramesh, S.; Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba (2023). "Black-box testing of deep neural networks through test case diversity". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49 (5): 3182–3204. doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3243522.
  • Saboor Yaraghi, Ahmadreza; Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba; Kahani, Nafiseh; Briand, Lionel C. (2023). "Scalable and accurate test case prioritization in continuous integration contexts". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49 (4): 1615–1639. doi:10.1109/TSE.2022.3184842.
  • Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba; Kahani, Nafiseh; Briand, Lionel C. (2022). "Reinforcement learning for test case prioritization". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48 (8): 2836–2856. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3070549.
  • Pan, Rongqi; Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba; Ghaleb, Taher Ahmed; Briand, Lionel C. (2022). "Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review". Empirical Software Engineering. 27 (2): 29. doi:10.1007/s10664-021-10066-6.

References

  1. ↑ "Top international researcher appointed to key position at University of Limerick and Lero". University of Limerick. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Top international researcher appointed to key position at University of Limerick and Lero". Science Foundation Ireland. 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Professor Lionel Briand named Distinguished Research Chair in Trustworthy AI-Enabled Software Systems". University of Ottawa. July 2026. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Lionel Briand". University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  5. ↑ "Lionel Briand". Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Briand Lionel". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Lionel Claude Briand". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Lionel Briand". Lero. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  9. 1 2 "2020 ACM Fellows recognized for work that underpins today's computing innovations". Association for Computing Machinery. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Outstanding Research Award". ACM SIGSOFT. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Class of 2023 Fellows and College Members" (PDF). Royal Society of Canada. 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  12. 1 2 "The SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy: inaugural class". ACM SIGSOFT. 14 July 2026. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  13. 1 2 "ICSE Most Influential Papers". International Conference on Software Engineering. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  14. ↑ "Simula researcher of the year award". Simula Research Laboratory. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Harlan D. Mills Award". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  16. ↑ "IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award winners". IEEE Reliability Society. 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "Class of 2023 Fellows and College Members" (PDF). Royal Society of Canada. 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  18. ↑ "University of Limerick researcher elected to International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities". University of Limerick. May 2026. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
  19. ↑ "Fellows". Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
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