Lionel Briand

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. 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, having held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance there from 2019 to 2026.

He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2010 He received the Harlan D. Mills Award in 2012 He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023, a member of Academia Europaea, Informatics section, in 2025,

Awards and honours

Researcher of the Year, Simula Research Laboratory, 2006, and Researcher of the Decade, 2011 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010 Harlan D. Mills Award, IEEE Computer Society, 2012 Engineer of the Year, IEEE Reliability Society, 2013, "for achievements in model-based software verification and testing" ICSE Most Influential Paper award, 2015 and 2021 Fellow of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada, 2023 Member of Academia Europaea, Informatics section, 2025 Member of the inaugural class of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Academy, 2026 Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

Selected Publications