A. van Deursen

Arie van Deursen is a professor in software engineering at the department of Software Technology in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science. He served as head of department from 2016-2023, and presently chairs the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG).

He is scientific co-director of AI4SE, a five year collaboration between JetBrains and TU Delft investigating novel use of artificial intelligence in software engineering. This lab hosts 10 PhD students, dozens of MSc and Bsc students, and many TU Delft faculty members and JetBrains specialists. 

He is co-founder of two companies: The Software Improvement Group (2000) and PerfectXL (2010). Follow him on Mastodon as @avandeursen.

Research interest of Arie van Deursen include software engineering, software testing, trustworthy AI, language models for code, software architecture, human aspects of software engineering, and digitalization in the financial and public sector.

Arie van Deursen holds and MSc degree in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1990) and a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (1994). He conducted his PhD research in the area of programming languages at CWI, the Dutch national research center on mathematics and computer science, under the supervision of Paul Klint. After a postdoc in Eindhoven, from 1996-2005 he was a senior researcher at CWI, after which he joined TU Delft as a professor in software engineering.

He served as program co-chair for the ACM Symposium on Foundations on Softwrae (ESEC/FSE) in 2017 and the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Softwre Engineering (ICSE) in 2021, and as chair of the ICSE Steering Committee.

He currently teaches software architecture and has taught software testing for many years. He has (co-)supervised 50 PhD students and 100 MSc students.