Maria Christakis is a full professor at TU Wien, where she leads the Software Engineering research unit. Her work focuses on developing innovative techniques and tools for writing, specifying, verifying, analyzing, testing, and debugging software. Her goal is to make programs more robust while enhancing the developer experience. Before joining TU Wien in 2022, Maria conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Germany), the University of Kent (UK), Microsoft Research (USA), and ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Since then, she was awarded an ERC Starting grant, WWTF and FWF grants, a Google Research Scholar award, an Amazon Research award, and she was elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Chunyang Chen is a full professor in the School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany. His main research interest lies in automated software engineering, especially data-driven mobile app development. Besides, he is also interested in Human-Computer Interaction and software security. He has published many research papers in top venues such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, CHI, CSCW with extensive collaboration with industry, including Google, Microsoft, and Meta. His research has won awards including ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award, Facebook Research Award, four ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards (ICSE'23/21/20, ASE'18), and multiple best paper/demo awards.