Xavier Franch#
| Membership Number: | 6220 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.essi.upc.edu/~franch/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9733-8830 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017, 05 - current Full Professor (CU) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- 1998, 03 - 2017, 05 Associate Professor (TU) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- 1990, 06 - 1998, 03 Associate Professor (TEU) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- 1987, 10 - 1990, 06 Assistant Professor (ATC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- 1986, 10 - 1987, 09 Assistant Professor (Colaborador) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Fields of Scholarship
- Empirical software engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Software quality
- Conceptual modeling
- Software engineering for AI-based systems
- Service-oriented architecture
- Agile software development
Honours and Awards
- 2024 10-year Most Influential Paper award at the REFSQ conference
- 2023 Lifetime Service award at the IEEE RE conference
- 2023 Steering Committee member of the ESEM conference, October 2023 - October 2026
- 2023 Steering Committee chair of the CAiSE conference, June 2023 - June 2026
- 2023 Steering Committee member of the RCIS conference, since May 2023
- 2022 10-year Most Influential Paper award at the IEEE RE conference
- 2019 Council vice-chair of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB), since March 2019
- 2019 Steering Committee member of the PROFES conference, since November 2019
- 2018 Journal First chair of the Journal of Systems and Software journal (JSS, Elsevier), May 2018 - May 2022
- 2017 Associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software journal (JSS, Elsevier), March 2017 - May 2018
- 2017 Associate editor of the Int. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS, World Scientific), April 2017 - Sept. 2020
- 2016 Associate editor of the Computing journal (Springer), since December 2016
- 2016 Associate editor of the Requirements Engineering journal (REJ, Springer), since December 2016
- 2015 Member of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN), since January 2015
- 2014 Associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software journal (JSS, Elsevier), since September 2014
- 2014 Deputy Editor of the IET Software journal (IET), September 2014 - November 2017
- 2013 Advisory Committee member of the iStar workshop, since June 2013
- 2012 Associate editor of the Information and Software Technology journal (IST, Elsevier), since January 2012
- 2012 Steering Committee member of the CAiSE conference, since June 2012
- 2010 Steering Committee member of the REFSQ conference, April 2010 - March 2016 (vice-chair April 2013 - March 2016)
- 2007 Steering Committee member of the IEEE RE conference, September 2007 - October 2021
