Simula Research Laboratory (Simula)

Leon Moonen is a Research Professor of Data-Driven Software Engineering at Simula Research
Laboratory, Norway. His research is aimed at the design and development of advanced, data-driven
techniques and tools that support software engineers with the understanding, assessment, and
evolution of complex industrial software systems, with a particular interest on Security and Resilience
in Software Systems, Self-Healing and Self-Adaptive Technology and, more general, the Application of
Machine Learning in Software Engineering. His research covers a wide range of topics, such as
software analytics, software reverse engineering, software repository mining, machine learning,
program comprehension, and empirical software engineering.

Dr. Moonen prefers to work in close collaboration with industry, to ensure that his research addresses
questions of practical value, and to evaluate candidate solutions in real-life circumstances. Current
ongoing projects investigate recommendation systems to support smarter evolution and testing of
software-intensive product families, techniques and methods to support secure and robust software
engineering, bio-inspired techniques for creating self-monitoring and self-healing systems, and
software analytics to support continuous software quality assessment and predictive maintenance.