Lionel Briand
Large Language Models for Software Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in supporting the automation of numerous software development tasks, such as testing. Many automation problems that used to be complex or impossible to address are now within reach. This talk will provide an overview of the applications, performance, and limitations of LLMs to date. It will also outline promising research areas and what problems should be addressed to alleviate limitations.
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Biography
Professor Lionel C. Briand is Director of Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software and Professor of Software Engineering in University of Limerick’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems. He has a shared appointment as professor of software engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. In collaboration with colleagues, over 30 years, Prof. Briand has led research projects with companies in the automotive, satellite, aerospace, energy, financial, and legal domains. He has held various engineering, academic, and leadership positions in six countries.Professor Briand’s research has been particularly focused on ensuring the reliability, safety, and security of complex, AI-enabled systems, much of it in collaboration with industry partners and he is a previous European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant awardee, the most prestigious individual research funding grant in the European Union.
