Nelly Bencomo

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Nelly Bencomo is a leading researcher in the engineering of self-adaptive and autonomous systems, with a core focus on managing uncertainty at runtime. Her seminal work, *Living with Uncertainty in the Age of Runtime Models* (2014, 65 citations), established a foundational framework for using runtime models to handle unpredictable environments, a key challenge in modern software engineering. She is a principal figure in the **[email protected]** community, co-organizing the influential Dagstuhl Seminar 11481 (2012, 19 citations), which helped define the field's research agenda and its goal of using abstractions to manage system complexity during execution. More recently, Bencomo has advanced into AI-driven adaptation, pioneering **Reward-Reinforced Generative Adversarial Networks for Multi-Agent Systems** (2021, 15 citations) to solve optimal global coordination in collaborative robotics and telecommunications. Her work bridges theoretical foundations with practical, decentralized intelligence, earning her recognition as a thought leader in requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems. With a career dedicated to making software resilient in the face of the unknown, Bencomo’s contributions continue to shape how next-generation systems learn, adapt, and operate autonomously.