Barbara Russo

Barbara Russo is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is a member of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN) and has held visiting researcher positions at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics (Germany) and the University of Liverpool (UK). Her research focuses on Machine Learning in Software Engineering, Software Reliability/Testing, and Systems Engineering. She founded and coordinated the Software and Systems Engineering (SwSE) research group (2014–2017) and is involved in initiatives like the European Masters Program in Software Engineering (EMSE).

• Awarded the 2007 Best Public-Private Collaboration Award for establishing a dual BSc program in Computer Science.
• Established a makerspace (now FabLab) at her faculty and contributed to projects like the Euregio Trustworthy AI Lab.
• Research spans DevOps processes, embedded systems vulnerability, and collaborative AI assurance.

Her work emphasizes empirical software engineering and practical industry collaboration, with notable contributions to scalability testing, performance modeling, and vulnerability detection.