Samuel Kounev

Samuel Kounev is a Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Würzburg (Germany). He has been actively involved in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the largest standardization consortium in the area of computer systems benchmarking, since 2002. Samuel is the Founding Chair of the SPEC Research Group (https://research.spec.org), which he initiated in 2010 with the goal of providing a platform for collaborative research efforts between academia and industry in the area of quantitative system evaluation. He is a holder of the SPEC Presidential Award for "Excellence in Research" (long-lasting contributions to the field of performance evaluation and benchmarking of computing systems), as well as Co-founder and Steering Committee Co-chair of several conferences in the field, including the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) and the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS). Samuel has published extensively in the area of systems benchmarking, modeling, and evaluation of performance, energy efficiency, reliability, and security. On a broader scale, his research focuses on a range of topics related to the engineering of software for building dependable and efficient distributed systems, such as cloud-based systems, cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Samuel's research is inspired by the vision of Self-Aware Computing Systems, to which he has been one of the major contributors shaping its development.