Engineer Bainomugisha is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University. His research focuses on Computer Science-driven solutions to the prevailing world challenges. He is also passionate about contributing to quality Computer Science education that is of sufficient breath and depth, practical and fast enough. Professor Bainomugisha currently leads several innovative initiatives that aim to create and apply computational methods and tools that can improve the quality of life especially in the developing world setting. His current research projects include building networks of miniature devices to: measure and derive trends of air quality in over 50 urban centers in Uganda to tackle the growing air pollution challenge in developing countries; monitor soil conditions to help farms make smart decisions; measure the quality of road infrastructure in Uganda to help municipalities and road users. Professor Bainomugisha and his team are also building a multi-cloud solution that supports portability of apps and services between private and public clouds while taking into account unique African realities like bandwidth constraints, Internet and power outages. Previously Professor Bainomugisha investigated and developed programming languages and software tools to help programmers easily write highly adaptive mobile software without worrying about low-level concerns. His research in this area helped create iScheme and Flute programming languages. He is also the Principal Investigator for several research projects including “Probabilistic low-cost air pollution monitoring”; “Centre for Data Technology”; “Build Research Capacity for Innovative ICT4D”; and “African Virtual Cloud Initiative”; . Professor Bainomugisha received a Ph.D. and MSc. in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2008 & 2012, respectively; and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Makerere University in 2006. Prior to returning to Makerere University he worked as a pre-doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Michel Chaudron is Full Professor and Chair of the Software Engineering group at the TU Eindhoven which is part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Prior to this, he worked at Universities in Gothenburg (Chalmers|GU), Leiden and Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of formal methods and programming calculi for parallel computing. His research interests are in software architecture, software design, software modeling with a special focus on UML, software composition and knowledge sharing. Recently, use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Software Development. He has an interest in empirical studies in software engineering esp in the aforementioned areas and preferably in industrial contexts.
He supports several conferences and journals including (Conf:) ICSE, MODELS and Euromicro SEAA, FAMECSE and (Jnl:) SoSyM and Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (EMSE).

He has given tutorials and guest lectures on Software Architecture Design and Modeling as well as on Empirical Software Engineering Research Methods as guest lecturer in (o.a.) Spain, Tunesia, France, Finland, Slovakia and The Netherlands.