Patrizio Pelliccione is an Associate Professor (Docent in Software Engineering) at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. Patrizio is also, since February 2007, Assistant Professor at the University of L’Aquila, Dep. of Inf. Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (currently on leave). In 2005 for one year Patrizio was Senior Research at the Faculty of Sciences, Technologies and Communications, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg). Patrizio took his PhD in June 2005. Patrizio actively work on formal and rigorous modeling to enable and support early verification and validation of software systems. He had great results on applying model-driven engineering techniques to model software architecture descriptions and to manage the evolution of open source software systems. Patrizio is serving as reviewer to various top conferences like ICSE, ASE, ISSRE, ISSTA, and journals like TSE, TOSEM, JSS, SOSYM, IST. He will be the program chair of ICSA 2017, the top conference in software architecture (http://softwarearchitecture.org/2017). Patrizio has (co-)authored over 90 publications in international journals, international books, and international conference and workshop proceedings (see the webpage: http://www.patriziopelliccione.com/).