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Professor Kevin Ryan was, until June 2010, Director of Lero, the national Software Engineering Research Centre of Ireland. Lero is a collaboration of four universities: the University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Dublin City University. Lero�s overall goal is to help develop the competence and awareness of software engineering in Irish industry and society.

Prior to becoming Centre Director for Lero, Kevin Ryan was Vice President Academic and Registrar of the University of Limerick and founding Dean of the College of Informatics and Electronics. His main research interests are in the field of software engineering and, in particular, in design methods, requirements engineering and the software process. He has been involved in a number of significant EU funded projects in the area of software methods and tools, including ToolUse and Atmosphere. With Dr. Joachim Karlsson he published some of the first papers on Requirements Prioritisation.

Kevin Ryan was organisation chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in 2000, and of the IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE99) in 1999, both held in Limerick, and was Programme Chair of RE09 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently chair of the IFIP Working Group 2.9 on Software Requirements Engineering.

Tony Gorschek is an associate professor of software engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) with over ten years industrial experience. He also manages his own industry consultancy company, works as CTO, and serves on several boards in companies developing cutting edge technology and products. His research interests include requirements engineering, technology and product management, process assessment and improvement, quality assurance, and innovation. Gorschek has a PhD in software engineering from BTH. He�s a member of the IEEE and the ACM. Contact him at tony.gorschek@bth.se or visit www.gorschek.com.

I got my degree from Universidade da Coru�a in 1996, and the PhD from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in 2003. I am currently holding a research position of the "Juan de la Cierva" programme at Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid. Previously, I has been Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and assistant professor at the universities Complutense de Madrid and Alfonso X el Sabio.

My research interests have always been in the field of requirements engineering. My first publications and my PhD dissertation were focused on conceptual modeling. Now, I am making research about elicitation techniques from an empirical viewpoint, using both experimentarion and systematic review methodologies. I expect to apply the same empirical strategy to conceptual modeling in the coming years.

Far from pure research, I have some other interests. For example, I am worried (well, just a little bit) about the proffesion aspects of software engineering. For example, I am worried about how to educate students in requirements engineering. I am working on that with some other colleagues, as Marta Lopez and Dante Carrizo from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Almudena Sierra from Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid. I am also worried about the legal and economic implications of software engineering. Nevertheless, I had not enough time to address those aspects yet.

Pablo got his degree on Computer Engineering (Ingeniero en Inform�tica)

from the University of Valladolid back in 2000. Since then he has worked

on several projects and companies, always involved in software

development. He worked for Sony Europe developing software for Sony's

next-gen digital TVs (MHP).

Pablo co-founded Codice Software in 2005, a start-up developing SCM

software at global scale. Its product, Plastic SCM, is one of the most

advanced Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) on the market.

Codice has offices in Boecillo Tech Park (Spain) and Silicon Valley (USA).

Pablo is an Associate Professor at Burgos University, focused on Project

Management and specially interested on agile methodologies.

Pablo is the President of the Professional College of Computer Engineers

in Castilla y Le�n (Colegio Profesional de Ingenieros en Inform�tica de

Castilla y Le�n), which represents more than 350 professionals.

Pablo is a frequent writer in magazines like DDJ.

Sourcing Specialist at Accenture Technology Solutions since May 2005. Previously she worked in Amadeus Global Travel Distribution in the Career Planning & Development department and in the University Antonio de Nebrija at the Profesional Career Assessment Center.

She has a BA Hons in International Relations at Staffordshire University, a Master degree in Train the Trainer from the UNED and a Master degree in Human Resources & Organization from ESIC.

He has attained a BSc in Computer Science in Brazil at the Pontif�cia Universidade Cat�lica do RS (PUCRS). The nightly lectures of his undergraduate course allowed him to work during the day for major multinational companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Telef�nica where he exercised his skills as a software developer and tech leader. He has further enhanced his technical abilities attaining a number of certifications, namely SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect), OCUP (OMG Certified UML Professional), SCWCD (Sun Certified Web Component Developer) and SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer). Currently Filipe Albero Pomar is finishing his graduate studies of MSc in Software Engineering at the Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid. Filipe can be reached by e-mail at the following address filipe.albero.pomar@alumnos.upm.es.

David Musat is a researcher at the E.U. Inform�tica of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, since 2008. He received his bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) of Spain in 2007. He is currently studying the European Master in Software Engineering (EMSE).

He is member of the Systems & Software Technology Group (SYST) of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Since 2008, he is participating in several European and national projects related to Software Engineering and Software Architectures. His research interests are focused on software architectures, SPLs, MDE and, Agile methodologies.

Pau Minoves studied telecommunications at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, 2005). In September 2007, he enrolled in the Erasmus Mundus on Software Engineering master which was given at Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM, 2007) and Blekinge Technical High School (BTH, 2008). In the context of the EMSE master thesis, he joined Karlskrona�s Ericssson R&D department to perform an study, comparison and assessment on Open Source development methodologies. In 2009, he joined I2CAT Foundation (http://www.i2cat.net/en) as team lead for the Manticore II and FP7 research project.

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya is the student course representative for the European Master of Software Engineering (EMSE) Erasmus Mundus programme. Nandana is currently studying for his Masters degree at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and he holds a B.Sc. first class honors degree in Computer Science & Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He has successfully completed two Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects in 2006 and 2007.

Before joining the EMSE programme, he was working as a technical lead for WSO2 Inc., a company that develops an open source middleware platform that is optimized for Service Oriented Architectures. At WSO2, he was involved in the development of WSO2 Web Service Application Server (WSO2 WSAS), WSO2 Identity Server (WSO2 IS), and WSO2 Carbon platform projects. He contributes to few open source projects including Axis2, Rampart, WSS4J, and Stonehenge at Apache Software Foundation (ASF) where he serves as a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member. Nandana is also a member of the Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee (WS-SX TC) and Web Services Federation Technical Committee (WS-FED TC) at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). You can contact him via nandana [at] apache.org or visit http://nandana.org