Simos Gerasimou
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - A. Einstein

I am a Lecturer in Computer Science within the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. I received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (2010), and an MSc in Software Engineering (2011) and a PhD in Computer Science (2016) both from the University of York, UK.
PhD studentship available on developing assured and scalable self-adaptation techniques for the engineering of trustworthy autonomous robotic teams.
I am currently recruiting PhD candidates in the areas of Software Engineering and Trustworthy Robotics and Autonomous Systems. If interested, get in touch.
Research Interests
The engineering of trustworthy software for autonomous systems through the development of rigorous tool-supported approaches using model-based analysis, testing and formal verification.Model-driven robotics
& autonomous systems
& autonomous systems
Devise approaches for trustworthy adaptation in robotics and autonomous systems using lightweight formal methods and model-driven engineering
Trustworthy
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Develop techniques that enable establishing the trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence and drive its use in critical autonomous systems
Search-based
software engineering
software engineering
Address software engineering problems and tame their large decision spaces through methods that employ evolutionary algorithms
Research Grants
Jul, 2020 | SAFEMUV-Safe Airframe Inspection using Multiple UAVs (£250K, PI) |
Mar, 2020 | ASSA-Assured and Scalable Self-Adaptation for the Engineering of Trustworthy Autonomous Robotic Teams (£100K, PI) |
Dec, 2019 | COVE-Continual Verification and Assurance of Robotic Systems under Uncertainty (£250K, CoI) |
Sep, 2019 | ATLAS-Assured Robustness Analysis in Collaborative Autonomous Robots (£90K, CoI) |
Feb, 2019 | AMCA-Assured Mission-Critical Applications for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles (£90K, CoI) |
News
Sep 15, 2020 | Co-chaired the 3rd International Workshop on AI Safety Engineering |
Jul 30, 2020 | Our paper Interval Change-Point Detection for Runtime Probabilistic Model Checking has been accepted at ASE’20. |
Jul 1, 2020 | Our paper Supporting robotic software migration using static analysis and model-driven engineering has been accepted at MODELS’20. (Arxiv) |
Apr 1, 2020 | PhD studentship on Assured and Scalable Self-Adaptation for the Engineering of Trustworthy Autonomous Robotic Teams. Get in touch! |
Dec 10, 2019 | Our paper DeepImportance: Importance-Driven Deep Learning System Testing has been accepted at ICSE’20. DeepImportance website |