Dragos Truscan

Prof. Dragos Truscan is a Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering within Åbo Akademi University, focusing on Information Technology and Mission Critical Software Systems.

• Research interests include validation and verification, automated test generation using model-based technology and AI, test left-shifting, and runtime monitoring of industrial software systems
• Active in Security Requirements Engineering, DevOps, Deep Learning, and Software Component analysis

Recent work explores:

• 2025 - Reinforcement learning for security testing and visual fault localization
• 2024 - Explainability in network attack detection and hyperparameter optimization
• 2023-2024 - Model-based requirements engineering in large collaborative projects

Scientific Recognition

• Best Paper Award (2024)
• Best Paper Award (2013)

Academic Activities

• Organizing member of IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (2025)
• Hosted scholars like Victoria Zsók and Dr. Dumitru Iulian Nastac