Dr.  Nelly Bencomo

www.nellybencomo.me
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/nelly-bencomo/

I exploit the interdisciplinary aspects of software engineering, comprising both technical and human concerns, while developing techniques for intelligent, autonomous and highly distributed systems.

I am an Associate Professor in the CS Department at Durham University and leader of the Research Team SE@Durham (*). In 2019, I was granted the Leverhulme Fellowship "QuantUn: quantification of uncertainty using Bayesian surprises." Before, I was a Marie Curie Fellow at INRIA Paris - Roquencourt. The Marie Curie project is called "Requirements-aware Systems" (nickname: [email protected]).

I am the PI of the EPSRC Twenty20Insight research project (**).  
Twenty20Insight is an interdisciplinary project bringing together academic experts in Software Engineering (SE), RE, Design Thinking and ML to help system stakeholders and developers understand and reason about the impact of intelligent systems on the world in which they operate. Twenty20Insight actively supports the explainability of the exposed behaviour by the running system.

(Bayesian Surprise, Shannon Surprise, Bayes Factor Surprise, and Bayes Factor Surprise) and work related to Digital Twins.

(*): https://aihs.webspace.durham.ac.uk/software-engineering/
(**): https://aihs.webspace.durham.ac.uk/Twenty20insight/

• Bayesian Theory of Surprise to Quantify Degrees of Uncertainty
  In the specific area of software engineering (SE) for self-adaptive systems (SASs) there is a growing research awareness about the synergy between SE and artificial intelligence (AI). We are just...
• Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Human-Machine Teaming
  There is growing uncertainty about the environment of software systems. Therefore, how the system should behave under different contexts cannot be fully predicted at design time. It is...