Marco Vieira

Marco Vieira is a Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Born in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, he earned his Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra, where he was a Professor until moving to Charlotte.

For more than twenty-five years, his work has asked whether systems deserve to be trusted. His research focuses on how AI can be applied to software engineering, and on how we evaluate whether it actually works, a question that has led him to argue for Benchmark Engineering as a discipline in its own right. He has authored or co-authored more than 280 refereed papers, chairs the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance, and serves in leadership roles for several of the field's major conferences.

Beyond software engineering, he is drawn to the question of why we do what we do, particularly through Alfred Adler's view that we are pulled forward by the goals and meaning we choose rather than driven by our past. He writes about software, teaching, and culture on his blog, Echoes of Saudade, and is a lifelong student of Portuguese history.