Professor Bashar Nuseibeh

Professor Bashar Nuseibeh

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Biography

Bashar Nuseibeh is an Adjunct Professor of Software & Systems at Trinity College Dublin, and Executive Dean of Science & Technology at City St George's, University of London. He is an Emeritus Professor of Computing at The Open University and Research Pillar Chair of the UK's Responsible AI programme (RAi UK).

Bashar is also an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) (Japan), Imperial College London, and University College Dublin (UCD).


Previously, Bashar was an Associate Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London, and a Full Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre.

He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the ACM, and is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Borda A, Pasquale L, Koutavas V, Nuseibeh B, Compositional verification of self-adaptive cyber-physical systems, Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, 2018, 2018, pp1 - 11Conference Paper, 2018, DOI , URL
  • L. Pasquale, K. Ramkumar, W. Cai, J. McCarthy, G. Doherty and B. Nuseibeh, The Rocky Road to Sustainable Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, 22, (5), 2024, p82 - 86Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • K. Ramkumar, W. Cai, J. McCarthy, G. Doherty, B. Nuseibeh and L. Pasquale, Towards Using Inductive Learning to Adapt Security Controls in Smart Homes, 2025 IEEE/ACM 20th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp140-146Conference Paper, 2025, DOI
  • Wanling Cai, Liliana Pasquale, Kushal Ramkumar, John F. McCarthy, Bashar Nuseibeh, Gavin Doherty, Human-centric security for smart homes: A scoping review, Computers & Security, 162, 2025, p104762 - 104762, p104762-104762Journal Article, 2025, DOI
  • I. Omoronyia, L. Pasquale, M. Salehie, L. Cavallaro, G. Doherty and B. Nuseibeh, Caprice: A tool for engineering adaptive privacy, 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), 2012, pp354-357Conference Paper, 2012, DOI

Research Expertise

Bashar works at the intersection of software engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. His research also addresses physical and psychosocial aspects of technology and its development.

He is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy, and an ERC Proof of Concept grant that contributed to the commercialisation of his patented innovations.

Recognition

  • Philip Leverhulme Prize 2002
  • IEEE Computer Society Harlan D Mills Award 2025
  • ICSE Most Influential Paper Award 2003
  • RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship 2005
  • Requirements Engineering Lifetime Service Award 2021
  • Automated Software Engineering Fellow 2007
  • ICLP Best Application Paper Award 2002
  • IFIP Outstanding Service Award 2009
  • Microsoft Research Award 2011
  • Trustcom Best Paper Award 2014
  • Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award 2012
  • RE Best Research Paper Award 2009
  • IET Innovation Award on Cyber Security 2017
  • CHI Golden Mouse Award 2010
  • ACM SigSoft Distinguished Service Award 2015
  • SEAMS Best and Distinguished Paper Awards 2018
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA)
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
  • Fellow of the Associate for Computing Machinery (FACM)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (MAE)