Welcome to ISERN

ISERN – The International Software Engineering Research Network

ISERN Research, Innovate, Repeat. Together.

ISERN is a collaborative and evolving community of empirical software engineering researchers, practitioners, and students that welcomes new members. We encourage innovation, continuous learning, and sharing of best practices.
ISERN is a leader in championing and advancing the adoption and rigorous use of sound empirical methods in software engineering research and practice.
We rely on and continually evolve a body of empirical methods, guided by goal orientation, continuous improvement, research context, and experience from other empirical disciplines.
We aim at enhancing the quality, relevance, and practical impact of software engineering research, working towards making software engineering a more evidence-based discipline.

The ISERN community holds annual meetings in the context of the Empirical Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW). ESEIW consists of

the ISERN meeting,
the International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE),
the International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE), and
the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

The next meeting (2025) will be in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA)

For the history of meetings check HISTORY.

ISERN Vision and Mission

Our Vision
Rigorous empirical methods are the norm in software engineering, with the ISERN community recognized as the leading authority and innovator in the continuous improvement of empiricism in research and practice through industry-academia collaboration.

Our Mission
ISERN is a collaborative and evolving community of empirical software engineering researchers, practitioners, and students that welcomes new members. We encourage innovation, continuous learning, and sharing of best practices.
ISERN is a leader in championing and advancing the adoption and rigorous use of sound empirical methods in software engineering research and practice.
We rely on and continually evolve a body of empirical methods, guided by goal orientation, continuous improvement, research context, and experience from other empirical disciplines.
We aim at enhancing the quality, relevance, and practical impact of software engineering research, working towards making software engineering a more evidence-based discipline.

Further Reading
To see the whole manifesto (Purpose and Focus, Common Research Framework, Activities, Communication, Members, Membership Application, Meetings and Meeting participation, Benefits, Benefits from Network, Benefits to Researchers, Benefits to Companies), check our COMPLETE ISERN MANISFESTO.

ISERN Members

The list of ISERN Organizations and their contact person.

Aalto University School of Science and Technology (TKK) (Finland), Caspar Lassenius
Bilkent University (Turkey), Eray Tüzün
Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), Nauman bin Ali
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (USA), Hakan Erdogmus
Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Robert Feldt
COPPE/UFRJ (Brazil), Guilherme Travassos
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Michael Felderer
Dimecc (Finland), Markku Oivo
Federal University of Pernambuco (Brasil), Fabio Q.B. da Silva
fortiss GmbH (Germany), Daniel Mendez Fernandez
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany), Andreas Jedlitschka
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), Barbara Russo
ISCAS (China), Qing Wang
Lund University (Sweden), Per Runeson
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT (Finland), Maria Paasivaara
Montana State University (USA), Clemente Izuireta
Nanjing University (China), He Zhang
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Kenichi Matsumoto
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Jingyu Li
North Carolina State University (USA), Laurie Williams
NTT Data Corporation (Japan), Takeshi Hayama
Osaka University (Japan), Shinji Kusumoto
Peking University (China), Minghui Zhou
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Marcos Kalinowski
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil), Rafael Prikladnicki
QAware GmbH (Germany), Marcus Ciolkowski
Queens University (UK), Desmond Greer
Toronto Metropolitan University, Ayşe Başar
Simula Research Labs (Norway), Magne Jørgensen
SINTEF (Norway), Nils Brede Moe
Software Engineering Research & Practices s.r.l. (SER&Practices) (Italy), Danilo Caivano
Technical University of Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (Spain), Xavier Franch
University of Adelaide (Australia), Ali Babar
Univ of Innsbruck (Austria), NN
Univ. of Gronningen (The Netherlands), Paris Avgeriou
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Sira Vegas
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), Oscar Pastor
University degli Studi dell’Insubria (Italy), Sandro Morasca
University degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), NN
University of Alabahma (USA), Jeffrey Carver
University of Bari (Italy), Maria Teresa Baldassarre
University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Marcela Genero
University of Hawaii (USA), Dan Port
University of Helsinki (Finland), Tomi Männistö
University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Rahul Mohanani
University of Maryland-Baltimore County (USA), Carolyn Seaman
University of Oslo (Norway), Dag Sjøberg
University of Oulu (Finland), Burak Turhan
University of Stuttgart (Germany), Stefan Wagner
University of Tampere (Finland), NN
University of Tartu – Institute of Computer Science (Estonia), Dietmar Pfahl
University of Tennessee (USA), Audris Mockus
University of Twente (The Netherlands), Maya Daneva
University of Uruguay (ORT) (Uruguay), Martin Solari
University Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Maurizio Morisio
Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Stefan Biffl
Western Norway University of Applied Science, Bergen (Norway), Rogardt Heldal
Emeritus (USA), Victor Basili
Emeritus (Italy), Giovanni Cantone
Emeritus (Germany), Dieter Rombach
Emeritus (Australia), Ross Jeffery