The ESEC/FSE Steering Committee is responsible for constituting and guiding each edition of ESEC/FSE and for establishing and evaluating practices that are binding upon the organizers of each conference for the continued technical and financial success of ESEC/FSE.
In particular, the ESEC/FSE Steering Committee is the body that is responsible for long term policies of the ESEC/FSE conference series.
The tasks of the steering committee are the following:
- Defining the scope, aims, and long-term evolution of the conference series
- Establishing the rules governing choice of officers for each conference, choice of themes, choice of location, representation of participating countries, refereeing standards, and scientific criteria
- Appointing the program-committee chair(s) and the other officers for each conference.
- Approving the major decisions of the program committee
- Approving the major decisions of the organizing committee
The steering committee is composed of the program chairs and general chairs of the past three and the three upcoming conferences (as soon as they are appointed). Furthermore, it contains representatives of the respective computer societies and individuals nominated by the steering committee because they are recognized as experts in the field.
The table below lists the current ESEC/FSE Steering Committee members. For questions, please do not hesitate to contact the steering-committee chair.
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Sven Apel University of Passau, Germany PC Chair 2019 |
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Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano, Italy SC Chair |
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Eric Bodden University of Paderborn, Germany General Chair 2017 |
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Marsha Chechik University of Toronto, Canada PC Chair 2021 |
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Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame, USA PC Chair 2016 |
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Myra Cohen University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA PC Chair 2020 |
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Prem Devanbu University of California at Davis, USA General Chair 2020 |
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Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy PC Chair 2021 |
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Alessandro Garcia Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil PC Chair 2018 |
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Gary Leavens University of Central Florida, USA General Chair 2018 |
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Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California, USA Past ACM SIGSOFT Chair |
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Corina Pasareanu NASA Ames Research Center, USA PC Chair 2018 |
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Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu, Estonia General Chair 2019 |
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Alessandra Russo Imperial College London, UK PC Chair 2019 |
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Wilhelm Schäfer University of Paderborn, Germany General Chair 2017 |
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Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece General Chair 2021 |
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Zhendong Su ETH Zurich, Switzerland PC Chair 2016 |
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Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, USA General Chair 2016, PC Chair 2020, ACM SIGSOFT Chair |
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Andrea Zisman The Open University, UK PC Chair 2017 |
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Arie van Deursen TU Delft, The Netherlands PC Chair 2017 |