Emil Vassev

Dr. Emil Vassev (www.vassev.com) received his M.Sc. in Computer Science (2005) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2008) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Currently, he is a Senior Research Fellow at Lero-the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland where he has led and is currently leading a few important projects including projects with the European Space Agency.

Dr. Vassev's research focuses on knowledge representation and awareness for self-adaptive systems. A part from the main research, his research interests include engineering autonomic systems, distributed computing, formal methods, cyber-physical systems and software engineering. He has published three books and over 130 internationally peer-reviewed papers, including the recently published book on "Autonomy Requirements Engineering for Space Missions". As part of his collaboration with NASA, Vassev has been awarded one patent with another one pending.