Biography

Bram Adams is a full professor at Queen's University, where he heads the MCIS lab on Maintenance, Construction, and Intelligence of Software. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at Ghent University's GH-SEL lab (Belgium). His research interests include software release engineering/DevOps/MLOps/LLMOps (think "software integration", "software build systems", and "infrastructure-as-code"), software engineering for AI (and vice versa), and mining software repositories. Together with his collaborators, Bram has published his work at the top software engineering conferences (ICSE, FSE, MSR, ICSME) and journals (EMSE, TSE, JSS), obtaining 6 best paper awards and 2 most influential paper awards. In 2021, he won the MSR community's Foundational Contribution Award for his research and evangelization on release engineering. In addition to co-organizing the RELENG International Workshop on Release Engineering from 2013 to 2015 (and the 1st/2nd IEEE Software Special Issue on Release Engineering), he co-organized, amongst others, SEMLA 2018/19, FM+SE Vision 2030 and AIware 2024. Finally, Bram has been program co-chair of SCAM 2013, SANER 2015, ICSME 2016 and MSR 2019; ICSE 2023 software analytics area co-chair, and general chair of MSR 2025. He is a Senior IEEE Member.