Funded Projects

Summary of Recently Funded Projects

2022 – 2025 Sole Primary Investigator (PI) / “Ground-Truth based Program Debugging (GTDebug)” / “C21/IS/15845400” / Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) Junior Core / 634K€ (EUR)
2023 – 2025 Co-Primary Investigator (Co-PI) / “FinInclusion: Assessing Financial Inclusion in Digital Financial Services (DFS)” / Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) National Centres of Excellence in Research (NCER) program / 400K€ (EUR)
2020 – 2022 Co-Investigator (Research Lead) / “LAIWYERS: Law and AI: WaYs to Explore Robust Solutions” / Audacity Grant AUDACITY-2019-Laiwyers / Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the University of Luxembourg / 390K€ (EUR)

Title: “Ground-Truth based Program Debugging (GTDebug)”
Funding Body: Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) Junior Core, C21/IS/15845400
Amount: 634K€ (EUR)
Duration: 3 years: 2022 - 2025
Role: Primary Investigator (PI)
Summary: This project investigates “human factors in software validation (i.e., software testing and automated debugging)”. This project supports a Post-doctoral researcher and an engineer.
Outputs: ICSE23

Title: “FinInclusion: Assessing Financial Inclusion in Digital Financial Services (DFS)”
Funding Body: Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) National Centres of Excellence in Research (NCER) program
Amount: 400K€ (EUR)
Duration: 2 years: 2023 - 2025
Role: Co-Primary Investigator (Co-PI)
Summary: This is an interdisciplinary/joint project investigating “Software Fairness of Digital Financial Services (DFS)” with the ADA Chair (of Prof. Dirk Andreas Zetzsche (Co-PI)) in Financial Law (inclusive finance), Chair in Sustainable Finance (of Prof. Michael Halling (Co-PI)) and Serval, SnT (led by Prof. Yves Le Traon and Dr. Mike Papadakis (Co-PIs)).
Outputs: preprint

Title: “LAIWYERS: Law and AI: WaYs to Explore Robust Solutions”
Funding Body: Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the University of Luxembourg, Audacity Grant (AUDACITY-2019-Laiwyers)
Amount: 390K€ (EUR)
Duration: 3 years: 2020 - 2022
Role: Co-Investigator (Research Lead)
Summary: This is a collaborative research project investigating the fairness properties of Legal AI systems jointly conducted by the SerVal Group, SnT (led by Prof. Yves Le Traon (Co-PI)), and the Media and Telecommunication Law Group (of Prof. Dr. Mark Cole (Co-PI)).
Outputs: TSE22, preprint