Talk:Lionel Briand

Requested edits

Hi,

I would like to propose the following changes to this Wikipedia page

- Since the page is about a scientist, I would like to add an infobox for scientists showing some of the standard information from infobox such as Born, Citizenship, Area of Expertise, Home Town, Some Awards, and some affiliations.

- In the first paragraph, I would like to add the most up to date information about his current positions in Canada and Luxembourg.

- Followed by this, I would like to add two paragraphs about his past positions.

- Given that he is a scientist, I would like to add the following headings. First, about his unique way of conducting industry-driven research. Second, the key areas of his research where he contributed significantly with citations to some key works. Third, some words about his research leadership including his role as editor of chief of a journal. Fourth, some key awards that he won.

Shaukatalisimula (talk) 17:48, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Shaukatalisimula: Hi! Thanks for getting in touch. I've added the infobox. As for the rest, could you please write something specific and post it here or at my talk page so that I can assess its suitability? Best, PK650 (talk) 22:52, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@PK650: Thanks a lot for adding the infobox. For the rest, I have drafted the text as below: First three paragraphs like this:

Prof. Lionel Claude Briand, born in Paris, France on November 21st, 1965, is a Canadian and French Computer Scientist and Canadian Professional Engineer. Currently, he holds two positions in two countries: (1) He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) on "Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance" at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada since July 2019, where he established the Nanda research laboratory: (2) He is the lead scientist at the Software Verification and Validation department at the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for ICT Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), since January 2012, where he is supported by an European Research Council's advanced research grant from the European Union.

From July 2008 to January 2012, he was affiliated with Simula Research Laboratory in Norway, where he led Certus Software Verification and Validation centre—an eight-year research-based innovation centre. Certus was established in close collaboration with industry such as Cisco Systems, FMC technologies and Kongsberg Maritime, and the public sector such as Norwegian Toll and Customs.

From July 1999 to July 2008, Briand was a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He led the Software Quality Engineering Laboratory(SQUALL) together with Prof. Yvan Labiche. Before immigrating to Canada, he led the software quality engineering department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), and a Software Engineering group leader at the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Montreal, Canada. Briand also worked as a research scientist, under the supervision of Victor Basili, for the Software Engineering Laboratory—a consortium of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland. He started his career as a software engineer at CS Communication and Systems (previously called CISI Ingénierie).

Research Philosophy: In order to increase the impact of his work, Briand follows a research paradigm that he refers to as “context-driven”[1]. Industry-relevant problems are identified in close collaboration with industry, by defining clear assumptions and objectives in context. This recognizes the fact that software engineering solutions are rarely universally valid and are almost always strongly dependent on working assumptions and contextual priorities. This is in contrast to the typical academic practice of identifying general research problems from the scientific literature. Once such industrial problems are identified through careful investigation, the state-of-the-art is reviewed, gaps are identified, and novel, cost-effective solutions are developed, followed by empirical evaluations in realistic industrial contexts. Such solutions, after iterative refinements and improvements based on industrial feedback, are then transferred to practice. [1] Briand, Lionel; Bianculli, Domenico; Nejati, Shiva; Pastore, Fabrizio; Sabetzadeh, Mehrdad (2017). "The Case for Context-Driven Software Engineering Research: Generalizability Is Overrated". IEEE Software. 34 (5): 72–75. doi:10.1109/MS.2017.3571562. ISSN 1937-4194.

Research Expertise: Over 25 years, Briand has made key contributions, in collaboration with many colleagues and students, in several key areas of software engineering:

1) Design measurement in object-oriented designs and systems. Briand defined and validated frameworks and methodologies to properly define and analyze measurable quality properties of object-oriented designs and systems.

2) Model-Driven Engineering. Though many technologies have been developed to drive software development with models, there are many open questions regarding the best ways and benefits of using modeling. Briand has had a major role in investigating different ways to express constraints, the impact of formality on understanding and change, and how to exploit models for supporting traceability and change impact analysis. Among others, he has applied modeling to support the assessment of requirements changes, the run-time verification of business process models and access control policies, model-based testing, security requirements modeling, legal simulation, and regulatory compliance analysis.

3) Automated testing of real-time, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. Briand has developed a number of scalable and practical automated techniques to automatically test functional and non-functional properties of such systems, often using various types of models as inputs, either functional models (e.g., Simulink) or specification models (e.g., Unified Modeling Language (UML)'s Modeling and Analysis of Real-time and Embedded systems (MARTE) profile.

4) Automated Security testing of web applications and services. Briand has developed automated and effective strategies, based on meta-heuristic search and machine learning to automatically detect vulnerabilities in Web applications and services.

5) Requirements modeling, extraction, and quality assurance. System requirements often come in natural language, need to be extracted from various texts (e.g., legal texts) and need to be checked for compliance (regulatory), completeness and consistency. Modeling of requirements, whether functional, security, or legal, among others, is also very important in many domains. Briand contributed to devising practical and analyzable requirements modeling solutions.

Leadership: Briand has strong and lengthy experience in building highly successful research groups in various institutions and countries (Fraunhofer Germany, Simula Norway, SnT Luxembourg), and leading research centres and departments in close partnership projects with industry and government. Briand has had strong involvement and leadership roles in the research community, both in the organization of conferences and the editorial board of journals (including ramping up the Empirical Software Engineering journal (Springer) for 13 years as co-EiC).

Recognition and awards: He has received a number of recognitions and awards, including being elevated to the rank of IEEE fellow (2010), receiving the IEEE CS Harlan Mills award (the most prestigious research award from IEEE in software engineering) in 2012 and the IEEE Reliability Society award in 2013, an European Research Council's Advanced grant which is the most prestigious individual research award from the European Union, and twice a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (2003, 2019). He has also received a number of best and distinguished paper awards from International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), and International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ).

Please let me know what do you think. Also, please feel free to suggest changes. Shaukatalisimula (talk) 11:00, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

@Pyschobbens: I have proposed the above changes for Lionel Briand's page. Please have a look and let me know what do you think? Please feel free to suggest the modifications.

@Coffee: Please see above my proposed changes. I also invited other people who edited this page before me to provide their feedback.

I am not going ahead with the above requests given they are extremely promotional and CV-like. Also, you haven't provided appropriate citations for any of the claims made. Have a look at something like Nancy Lynch as a reference of what you could aim for. Let me know if you need any further assistance. Best, PK650 (talk) 03:50, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@PK650: thanks a lot for a pointer to Nancy Lynch. Let me rework the text and then you may have a look.

@Shaukatalisimula: Hi I would like to propose modifying the first paragraph as follows (I suggest that the information about the birth date etc is moved to a separate section titled "Education and Early Life":

Prof. Lionel Claude Briand, is a Professional Engineer and Computer Scientist. He is the lead scientist at the Software Verification and Validation department at the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for ICT Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) on "Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance" at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Uzair-questlab (talk) 07:31, 24 February 2020 (UTC) @PK650:@Uzair-questlab:: How about the above-proposed paragraph? We can cite the following for the Canada Research Chair https://research.uottawa.ca/news/new-canada-research-chairs-support-research-excellence-uottawa And this for Luxembourg position: https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/people/lionel_briand The other information in the existing paragraph may be shifted to other sections, for example, awards, previous positions, research expertise? What do you think? We can provide relevant citations to support these. Shaukatalisimula (talk) 08:08, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

That's already in the article! I see no reason why we should repeat that, and why there should be such paragraphs as you suggest. It would start to look like a CV. If you have any new information (with any accompanying sources) please get back to me. Best, PK650 (talk) 08:56, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@PK650:I started to look at other professors. For example, have a look at these professors from same domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raouf_Boutaba Also, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Ghezzi We could follow similar headings. 1) Intro paragraph with current affiliations 2) Education and career; 3) Research contributions; 4) Awards and honours. What would be nice to have a proper structure rather a mix of information in one paragraph. Also, reference number 2 in the current version says: 2. "Award Recipient - Lionel Claude Briand". IEEE. Retrieved 8 December 2019. I guess this doesn't make sense. Shaukatalisimula (talk) 19:41, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Note other stuff existing is not a valid argument for adding content on Wikipedia (very importantly: most of the information on those biographies is unreferenced). Yes, other sections could be added if there's enough material out there, but it wouldn't make sense to add sections with one or two sentences just for the sake of it. Especially considering most "affiliations" are non-notable, you must be aware that Wikipedia is not a place to promote individuals. There's nothing wrong with the article being a stub; if you stretch out the content too thinly then section titles start to look like the bulk of the biography. I'm also unsure what you're trying to say about the IEEE citation. Best, PK650 (talk) 20:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@PK650: Reference 2 is "Award Recipient - Lionel Claude Briand". IEEE" and when you click the link it leads to his webpage. However, the text is about his research foci. Either we remove it since reference 1 is also his webpage, or we don't name the reference as "Award Recipient.. ", we can call it his webpage. BTW, when I will add the text under the headings, I will add proper citations to support the arguments. It will not just statements ;) I guess there is sufficient material that can be added in the headings. Shaukatalisimula (talk) 21:02, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi again! Sorry for not replying earlier, as I was on a short break. I am sorry but I don't fully understand what you're asking. His foci are easily deduced from his bibliography, and as far as I can tell are supported by a source as well. I think you've declared your conflict of interest, and as such it would be best if you didn't edit the article directly. Best, PK650 (talk) 01:20, 7 March 2020 (UTC)