Letizia Jaccheri

Letizia Jaccheri is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, where she served as Department Head from 2013 to 2017. An ACM Distinguished Speaker since 2018, she maintains active roles in both academia and industry, including serving as an independent director for Reply S.p.A.

Her research focuses on the intersection of software engineering and gender studies, with extensive leadership in interdisciplinary projects addressing diversity in computing. She spearheads the pan-European COST Action CA19122 Gender Balance in Informatics (EU GAIN), mobilizing 155 members across 39 countries to tackle gender imbalance in informatics through collaborative research and policy initiatives.

Scientific Awards

• gender equality prize for attracting women to computer science
• gender equality prize for retaining women in computer science
• ACM Distinguished Speaker (2018-present)

As a longstanding ACM member with nearly two decades of service, she has organized major conferences including the ACM Women Encourage event in Trondheim (2023) and chaired workshops like the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems. Her current work centers on the EU GAIN project, which drives systemic change through national coordination networks and cross-border knowledge exchange.

She leads multiple research initiatives focused on embedding gender perspectives into software engineering practices and curriculum development, with future plans to expand global frameworks for inclusive computing education and workforce development.