Per Runeson

Professor, Department of Computer Science at Lund University

What is your position/role in WASP?

PhD student supervisor for one academic student, one industrial student and one affiliated student. Member of WASP Diversity and Inclusion Group (DIG), a group that works with diversity, inclusion, and gender equality within the program.

Why did you choose to join WASP?

It is a unique opportunity for funding of research of my interest. At the time of WASP’s initiation, I was Head of Department for Computer Science at Lund University, so I was also involved in that function.

What are the benefits you see in WASP?

Generous funding of industry relevant research on the excellence forefront, and contact network across industry and academia.

Briefly describe your research topic.

My interest is on engineering of software-intensive autonomous systems. Particularly I focus on two complementary aspects:

1. continuous testing, experimentation, and monitoring of software systems with various degree of autonomy. See for example:

• Licentiate thesis about testing of autonomous systems by my academic PhD student Qunying Song https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/critical-scenario-identification-for-testing-of-autonomous-drivin
• PhD thesis about continuous experimentation by my academic PhD student Rasmus Ros https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/understanding-and-improving-continuous-experimentation-from-ab-te
• Licentiate thesis about continuous monitoring by my industrial PhD student Adha Hrusto https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/towards-optimization-of-anomaly-detection-using-autonomous-monito

2. open data ecosystems as a means to provide data for training of ML. See for example:

• Open Data Ecosystems — An empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept (https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/open-data-ecosystems-an-empirical-investigation-into-an-emerging-)

In what way can your research be of importance to our society in the future?

It provides engineering and governance knowledge to companies and public actors on how to develop and maintain software systems, which in turn underpin most societal activities.