Luciano Baresi

Luciano Baresi is Vice Rector for the Cremona Campus and Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, within the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), where he earned both his Laurea (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

He has held visiting positions at the University of Oregon (USA), Tongji University (China), and the University of Paderborn (Germany).

Prof. Baresi has served as Program Chair for several leading international conferences, including ICECCS, FASE, ICWE, ICSOC, SEAMS, and SCC. He has also been General Chair of WICSA/CompArch and SEAMS, and is slated to serve as General Chair of RE and FSE. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and is a member of the editorial boards of Science of Computer Programming, IEEE Software, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, and Requirements Engineering.

He has co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and one book (in Italian). His research spans a broad range of software engineering topics. Early in his career, he focused on formal modeling and specification languages, later shifting toward UML and web application design. His current research interests include self-adaptive systems, dynamic software architectures, edge computing, and AI/ML-based systems.

Awards

• RE 2020 Most Influential Paper award for: Luciano Baresi, Liliana Pasquale, and Paola Spoletini, “Fuzzy Goals for Requirements-Driven Adaptation” (RE 2010)
• ICSOC 2020 Best Paper award for: Andreas Metzger, Clément Quinton, Zoltan Mann, Luciano Baresi, and Klaus Pohl, “Feature-Model-Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for Self-Adaptive Services”
• SEAMS 2022 Best Paper award for: Luciano Baresi, Davide Yi Xian Hu, Giovanni Quattrocchi, and Luca Terracciano, “NEPTUNE: Network- and GPU-aware Management of Serverless Functions at the Edge”
• ICST 2026 Distinguished Paper award for: Simone Reale, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Luciano Baresi, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Giovanni Quattrocchi, “DANTE: Data-Driven Test Case Selection and Prioritization for Long-Running Test Suites”