Carlo A. Furia is an associate professor at the Software Institute in the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI). His research interests center around developing rigorous yet practical techniques and tools to help improve the quality, correctness, and reliability of software and systems; much of his work aims at making verification and formal methods practical and widely applicable. He has a PhD in computer science from the Politecnico di Milano. Before joining USI, he was an associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Before Chalmers, he spent about seven years as senior researcher at ETH Zurich.