New York and Limerick; Thursday, 16th April, 2015: Professor Bashar Nuseibeh of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has been named as recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by the US headquartered ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). ACM (www.acm.org) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with more than 100,000 members from industry, academia and government institutions around the world.

The ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) Distinguished Service Award is made to an individual who has “contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community”. It will be presented in May at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015) in Florence, Italy.

Bashar Nuseibeh, who is also Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick and Professor of Computing at The Open University, UK, won the award specifically for “key service contributions to the software engineering community, including major editorial responsibilities in top journals and successful chairing of major technical events”.

Professor Nuseibeh’s specialist research areas include software design to manage privacy and security in complex systems, including critical cyber-physical systems and Social Media.

Lero (www.lero.ie), which is supported by Science Foundation Ireland, combines the best in Irish software talent by bringing together researchers from Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin and University of Limerick.