Samuel Kounev
Chair of Software Engineering, University of Würzburg

Samuel Kounev is a Professor and Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Würzburg. His research spans the areas of software architecture, systems benchmarking, cyber security, and applied data science in the domains of cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, and scientific workflows for Earth observation. Samuel holds a PhD degree in computer science from TU Darmstadt (Germany). Samuel is also Founder of the SPEC Research Group and several conferences in the field, including ACM/SPEC ICPE and IEEE ACSOS. His research has led to over 300 publications and multiple scientific and industrial awards including 9 Best Paper Awards, SPEC Presidential Award for "Excellence in Research“, Google Research Award, ABB Research Award, VMware Academic Research Award, "Universitätsförderpreis der Mainfränkischen Wirtschaft", etc. Samuel Kounev has extensive experience with DFG projects including 11 individual research grants and managing a successful Emmy Noether research group.