Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

Lero (The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre),Ireland, was established in 2005 as a Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET), being one of nine (originally ten) such centres established by the Irish Government in various areas of science and engineering.

Lero’s first Centre Director was Professor Kevin T. Ryan, and Scientific Director Professor Klaus Pohl. Professor Mike Hinchey has been Director of Lero since mid-2010. Professor Bashar Nuseibeh served as Chief Scientist from 2010 to 2014 and was succeeded by Professor Brian Fitzgerald.

Lero is a distributed centre, incorporating the University of Limerick (lead partner), University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, National University of Ireland Galway and Dundalk Institute of Technology. It involves about 114 researchers and staff.

Lero has industrial ties to multinational companies such as IBM and Intel, to indigenous Irish industry such as Information Mosaic, and to government agencies such as the European Space Agency.

Lero’s research is focused on the field of Evolving Critical Systems (ECS), which can be considered to be a sub-field of Software Engineering, and considers how software that may be critical to an organization’s mission, product base, profitability or competitive advantage may be evolved in a manner than is reliable and predictable and without incurring extreme costs. Software must evolve over time to meet changing requirements and regulations. Many of today’s software systems have evolved from legacy code and legacy systems, or have evolved as a result of a focused and intentional change in organization and architecture to exploit newer techniques believed to be beneficial.

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