I am an Associate Professor in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. Within SERG, I lead the Computation Intelligence for Software Engineering Lab (CISELab), where my research focuses on advancing the fields of software testing, search-based software engineering, software testing for AI, and empirical software engineering.

I serve as the track lead for “Testing for and with AI” at the AI4SE, TU Delft’s tenth ICAI lab, funded by JetBrains, a global leader in intelligent software development tools. Additionally, I am the principal investigator for the UBRI program at TU Delft, a pioneering joint initiative with Ripple, a leader in the Blockchain sector. My research has also been funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program, focusing on test amplification (STAMP) and testing for cyber-physical systems (COSMOS).

With over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals and conferences in software engineering and evolutionary computation, I have had the opportunity to contribute to the SE field. I am grateful to have received the Most Influential Paper Award at SANER (2024) and several Best Paper Awards at ICPC, SBFT, and SSBSE.

In addition to my research contributions, I actively contribute to the academic community by serving as a program committee member for prestigious international conferences such as ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, ISSTA, GECCO, and ICST, and as a reviewer for leading journals including TSE, TOSEM, TEVC, EMSE, and STVR.