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Daniel Varro

Professor, Head of Unit

My research primarily focuses on the design and assurance of critical software-intensive cyber-physical systems, model-based systems engineering and quality assurance for machine learning software.

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I am a WASP full professor of software engineering at Linköping University (Sweden), a professor (on leave) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), and an adjunct professor at McGill University (Canada) where I was a full professor between 2016 and 2022. I am a former research chair on cyber-physical systems within the Lendület program awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I was a visiting researcher at SRI International (USA), University of Paderborn and TU Berlin (Germany), and a visiting professor at McGill University and Université de Montréal (Canada).

I am currently the Steering Committee vice chair of the IEEE/ACM MODELS conference, and serve on the editorial board of the Software and Systems Modeling journal. I was a program committee co-chair of FASE 2013, ICMT 2014, SLE 2016 and MODELS 2021 conferences. I delivered keynote talks at CSMR 2012, SOFSEM 2016 and SAM 2021 conferences and at various international workshops. Seven papers I co-authored received a Distinguished or Best Paper award at major international conferences, and three of my papers received a 10-year Most Influential Paper Award. I was the main supervisor of 9 graduated PhD students, and co-supervisor for 8 further successful PhD students.

I am a co-founder of IncQuery Labs, an innovative technology-intensive company. I was also co-founder of several open source software projects, including the VIATRA model query and transformation framework, MASSIF integration framework for Matlab, and the Refinery graph solver and generator.

Publications

2026

Máté Földiák, Lena Buffoni, Daniel Varro (2026) Towards a Modeling Assistant for Capturing CRML Requirements Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, p. 381-385 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3837062.3838902
Dominik Frey, Ulf Kargén, Daniel Varro (2026) SceneGEMS: Scenario Generation and Execution Framework for the Safety Assurance of Maritime Autonomous Surface Vehicles Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, p. 219-223 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3837062.3838872
Sogol Masoumzadeh, Mary Li Yufei, Shane McIntosh, Daniel Varro (2026) SeBERTis: A Framework for Producing Classifiers of Security-Related Issue Reports 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), p. 252-263 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER67736.2026.00036
Masoud Sadrnezhaad, Martin Sjölund, Adrian Pop, José Antonio Hernández López, Torvald Mårtensson, Daniel Varro (2026) ModBench: A Pipeline for Building Modelica Benchmark Datasets Mined from Library Repositories Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, p. 375-380 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3837062.3838901
Mootez Saad, José Antonio Hernández López, Boqi Chen, Neil A. Ernst, Daniel Varro, Tushar Sharma (2026) Grounding Generative AI in Software Engineering: Are We There Yet? 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), p. 1-6 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER67736.2026.00091

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