Sebastian Elbaum

About

Sebastian Elbaum is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia where he co-leads the Lab for Engineering Safe Software (LESS Lab). He aims to build safe autonomous systems. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, an IBM Innovation Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, Amazon Scholar, an FSE Test of Time Award, five ACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Awards, and multiple best paper awards. He regularly serves in program committees at the top software engineering and robotic conferences, and has served as Program Co-Chair for ISSTA, ESEM, and ICSE, and as Steering Committee Chair for ICSE. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Emerging Computing Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations connecting autonomous systems and AI with policy in national security. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.