Prof. Luigi Lavazza

Luigi Lavazza is associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communications at the University of Insubria at Varese, Italy. Formerly he was assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Informatics of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since 1990 he is also a member of the Software Engineering Unit at CEFRIEL. Here he led several research projects as well as several consultancy activities and technology transfer initiatives.

His research interests include: Model based development, especially concerning real-time and embedded software, Software process modelling, measurement and improvement, Requirements engineering and Configuration management.

He has been member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) in 1997 and 1998, of the Software Engineering and Applications Conference (SEA) in 2005, and of the International Workshop on Advances and Applications of Problem Frames in 2006.

He is co-author of over 70 scientific articles, published on international journals, or on the proceedings of international conferences or on books. He was involved in several international research projects. He also served as reviewer of ESPRIT and IST projects, and of international journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering Journal (Springer), Software and System Modeling (Springer), ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering), ESEC (European Software Engineering Conference), FSE (Foundations of Software Engineering).

Luigi Lavazza has taught object oriented modelling techniques since 1993 in continuous education programs of Politecnico di Milano, CEFRIEL and private organizations. He is coauthor –with L. Baresi and M. Pianciamore– of the book “Dall’idea al codice con UML 2.0 – Guida all’utilizzo di UML attraverso esempi”, (From the idea to code with UML 2.0 – A guide to using UML by means of examples), Pearson 2006 (in Italian).