Amel Bennaceur

Amel Bennaceur is an Associate Professor at The Open University (UK) specializing in adaptive and intelligent software systems. With over 12 years of research experience, she focuses on ensuring trustworthiness, quality, and resilience in autonomous systems through innovative software engineering approaches.

Her research spans:

• Adaptive Software and Autonomous Systems
• Resilience Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Software Engineering for Machine Learning applications
• Requirements Engineering for AI-powered systems
• Gender-inclusive and value-sensitive design methodologies

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2018-2025) reveals strong emphasis on runtime adaptation mechanisms, ethical AI integration, and human-centric system design. Key trends include developing frameworks for value operationalization (Values@Runtime), identity-aware architectures (IDEA of Us), and intelligent agent-based requirements engineering (Prompt Me), with growing focus on AI/ML integration since 2021.

She actively contributes to major software engineering conferences as:

• ASE 2025 Program Committee Member (Research Papers)
• Requirements Engineering 2026 Journal-First Co-Chair
• ICSE 2025 Committee Member (Research Track)
• Organizing Committee Chair for SEAMS (International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive Systems)

Her technical leadership includes GitHub projects like OASIS (security specification framework) and RE4ML (requirements engineering for machine learning), demonstrating hands-on implementation of her research concepts.