Luigi Lavazza is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e
Applicate of the Università degli Studi dell Insubria in Varese, Italy.
Formerly he was an Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano in Milano, Italy. Since 1990, he has
cooperated with the Software Engineering group at CEFRIEL, where he works in research projects as well as
in consultancy activities and technology transfer initiatives.
Luigi Lavazza´s research interests include Software process modeling, measurement and improvement,
Empirical Software Engineering, Software Quality, Open source software, Requirements engineering, and
Model based development, especially concerning real- time and embedded software.
He has published over 160 papers in journals and conference proceedings. Luigi Lavazza has been involved
in several national and international research projects and has served on the PC of several international
Software Engineering conferences.