Over the years, Roman gained the reputation for being a passionate and effective advocate for diversity, outreach, multidisciplinary education, and collaborative research across schools and departments. He has been instrumental in nurturing strong ties between engineering and other fields of study. The emphasis on quality of life, teaching excellence, and high-impact research continue to be the defining traits of Roman’s professional and academic life. 

Roman’s leadership role in two flagship international conferences on software engineering (ICSE 2005 in St. Louis and FSE 2010 in Santa Fe) transformed these meetings into memorable and influential events by providing a strong intellectual vision, by securing significant levels of financial support, and by achieving high levels of community involvement. He was a founding board member of the St. Louis Information Technology Coalition and served in an advisory capacity for the St. Louis Science Center.

International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2010), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, November 7-11, 2010. 

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), Saint Louis, Missouri, May 15-21, 2005.

De Meuter, W., and Roman, G.-C., Program Co-Chairs, International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2011), Reykjavik, June 6-9, 2011.

Ochoa, S. F., and Roman, G.-C., Program Co-Chairs, International Workshop on Advanced Software Engineering (IWASE 2006), Santiago, Chile, August 25, 2006.

Roman, G.-C., Vice Chair for Agents and Mobile Code, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May 19-22, 2003.

Roman, G.-C., and Picco, G. P., Co-Chairs, Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility, organized in conjunction with International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’01), Toronto, Canada, May 13-14, 2001.

Porto, A., and Roman, G.-C., Program Co-Chairs, International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2000), Cyprus, September 11-13, 2000.

Ghezzi, C., and Roman, G.-C., Co-Chairs, Workshop on Computing and Communication in the Presence of Mobility, organized in conjunction with International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’98), Kyoto, Japan, April 25, 1998.

Roman, G.-C., Panel Chair, Computing and Communication in the Age of Mobility, organized in conjunction with International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’98), Kyoto, Japan, April 1998.

Roman, G.-C., and Ghezzi, C., Co-Chairs, Workshop on Mobility and Network Aware Computing, organized in conjunction with Sixth European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC), Zurich, Switzerland, September 26, 1997.

Ghezzi, C., and Roman, G.-C., Program Co-Chairs, Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, 25-26 October 1991, Como, Italy.

Roman's career as a software engineering consultant has been a crusade for the introduction of modern software design methods into everyday practice.  His industrial training courses focused on requirements engineering and softwrae architecture design.  Over the span of 40 yeasrs or so, he provided technical support to a wide range of projects including both embeded and space systems.  More often than not, these projects entailed learning about engineering fields and applications way beyond the boundaries of computer science.