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Dr. Eduard C. Groen (or simply Eddy) has been working on Requirements Engineering in research and industry for 15 years. He is a Senior Requirements Engineer at Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and he coordinates research on AI4SE and Digital Sustainability. His work focuses on good Digital Design of complex systems, such as Digital Ecosystems, especially to address the challenges of sustainability.
In the RE community, he is best known for his research on Crowd-based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE), which he coined at the REFSQ’15 and has published on in venues such as IEEE Software, JSS, RE, REFSQ, REConf, NLP4RE, and the CrowdRE workshop. He also leads the IREB Special Interest Group on Sustainability (SIGsus).
Eddy received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University, the Netherlands on CrowdRE, which was supervised by Profs. Sjaak Brinkkemper, Fabiano Dalpiaz, and Jörg Dörr. He also holds a Master of Science in Psychology, with a specialization in Engineering Psychology, from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Eddy is a Program Committee member of the RE, REFSQ, ICT4S and CHASE conferences, several conference tracks, and a resident PC member of the NLP4RE, SEmotion, REWBAH und AffectRE workshop series. He is the incumbent Industry Innovation Track co-chair for RE’26, and was Posters & Tools co-chair for REFSQ’20 and Workshops co-chair for REFSQ’25. He has co-organized the CreaRE (2017–2021), CrowdRE (2017, 2019–2021, 2024), and AIRE (2018) workshops, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the CrowdRE workshop series.
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