Fabio Q. B. da Silva is a professor of software engineering with the Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. His research interests include human aspects in software engineering, innovation management, and future thinking. Silva is the leading researcher of the Human Aspects in Software Engineering Research Group (HASE Research) where he conducts field studies with software organizations in Brazil and several other countries with the goal of understanding and improving software practice. He is on the editorial board of IST and has been the Co-chair of ICSE's Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry Workshop in 2017 and 2018. He will be the General Chair of the IEEE/ACM ESEM Symposium in 2019.