UMIACS - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Abhinav Shrivastava is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science with an appointment in UMIACS and a member of the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning.
Shrivastava's research focuses on artificial intelligence-particularly as it relates to computer vision, machine learning, and robotics.
He is also involved in related fields such as graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, systems, data-mining, and cognitive and computational neuroscience. His longterm goal is to equip machines with visual perception abilities, which enables them to understand and respond to their surroundings.
Shrivastava previously served as a visiting research scientist at Google Research. He also received a doctoral fellowship from Microsoft Research in 2014.
He received his doctorate in robotics from the Robotics Institute (School of Computer Science) at Carnegie Mellon University in 2017.
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- Professor in the Department of Computer Science
- Software Engineering
Adam Porter is a professor in the Department of Computer Science.
His research focuses on understanding, in a quantitative sense, the dynamics of large-scale software development. The goal is to identify the fundamental mechanisms driving the costs and benefits of different software tools and methods. Porter's approach relies heavily on empirical studies, ranging from small controlled experiments, to experimentation with large scale artifacts, to interventions in real-life industrial projects that are operating under real deadlines and budgetary constraints.
Porter has served on editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
He has also been the co-organizer for the New Visions for Software Design & Productivity: Research & Applications Workshop of the Interagency Working Group for Information Technology Research and Development (ITRD) Software Design and Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group. Porter has also been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, given to outstanding junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars so they can further their research in their areas of expertise.
He received his doctorate in doctorate in computer science from the University of California at Irvine in 1991.
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- Area Editor for the Journal Parallel Computing
- Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Alan Sussman is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science.
He works on designing and building software tools to enable computation and data intensive applications to build and run efficiently on high-end parallel and distributed computer systems, and has published more than 100 conference and journal articles in those areas.
Sussman serves as subject area editor for the journal Parallel Computing, associate editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and on the editorial advisory board of the Scientific Programming Journal.
He has frequently served on the program committees of major conferences and workshops in parallel and distributed computing, and was the general chair of the 25th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in 2011. Sussman has also served as program vice chair for the International Conference on High Performance Computing in 2008 and 2011, and as chair of the Storage Challenge committee for the SC'09 and SC'10 conferences.
He has received several best paper awards at highly-rated conferences in parallel and distributed computing. Software tools Sussman has built have been widely distributed and used in many computational science applications, in areas such as earth science, space science, and medical informatics.
He received his doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, and a B.S.E in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1982. Sussman has been a visiting scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions Department of Pathology, and consulted for several businesses and universities on topics related to parallel and distributed computing.
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- Co - Director of the Future of Information Alliance
- Professor in the College of Information Studies
Allison Druin is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) with an appointment in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL).
Over the last 20 years, Druin's HCIL research has extensively focused on developing new technologies for children. She has led the development of new educational technologies, such as the International Children's Digital Library and StoryKit, which are used by children, parents, and teachers around the world.
Druin is also co-director of the Future of Information Alliance and previously served as director of HCIL and Associate Dean for Research in the iSchool. Her focus is not on predicting the future, but on preparing for it, with faculty and students campus-wide conducting research. In this role, she has helped develop a "Visiting Future-ist" program for gatherings around the Washington, D.C. area, which have included some of the first events to discuss MOOCs, big data and more.
She has assisted in establishing an FIA partner network with the U.S. Library of Congress, the U.S. National Park Service, the Governor of Maryland, the Smithsonian, and many others.
In 2014, Druin was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, given to outstanding junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars so they can further their research in their areas of expertise, and named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. She was appointed to the National Commission on Library and Information Science by President George W. Bush and has received numerous awards, including the 2010 SIGCHI Social Impact Award and the 2009 Digital Education Achievement Award.
Druin has published extensively in journals and books, and has been a keynote speaker throughout the world. For the last seven and a half years, she has also been a monthly technology correspondent for the WAMU 88.5 Kojo Nnamdi show as the "Computer Gal."
Druin received her doctorate in educational specialties in K-12 technology from the University of New Mexico in 1997.
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- Assistant Director, Immersive Media Design
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- Professor / Database Systems
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Amol Deshpande is a professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Deshpande's research has spanned a spectrum of data management topics including query optimization, adaptive query processing, sensor network data management, scalable statistical modeling of data, uncertain data management, and graph databases. His current research efforts focus on the challenges in managing and querying the inherently imprecise, incomplete, and uncertain data generated in environments like sensor networks, data streams, data integration, information extraction, and social networks.
Deshpande has written more than 40 research publications, and has received best paper awards at the VLDB 2004, EWSN 2008, and VLDB 2009 conferences. He received an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2006, which is given to outstanding junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars so they can further their research in their areas of expertise. Deshpande has served as a program committee member for many conferences in databases and sensor networks, is on the editorial board for the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, and has served on several NSF Review Panels. He also served as a program committee vice-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in 2008 and IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) in 2011.
He received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004, and his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1998.
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Andrew Childs is a professor of computer science and co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS).
Childs is an expert in the theory of quantum information processing, with a particular emphasis on algorithms for quantum computers.
Before joining the University of Maryland, he was an associate professor in the Combinatorics & Optimization department and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
Childs received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 2004. After receiving his doctorate, he was a DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. He is a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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- Affiliate Associate Research Scientist
- Associate Research Professor in the Institute for Physical Science
Anil Deane is an associate research professor in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and director of the Laboratory for Computation and Visualization.
His research is in the area of computational fluid dynamics and parallel computing, with funded projects in space physics, microgravity fluid physics and high-performance computing.
Deane has worked on large-scale simulations of thermal convection, wake flows, compressible turbulence, and magnetohydrodynamics. The numerical techniques used for these simulations include spectral methods, spectral-element methods, finite volume schemes for compressible flows, and shock-capturing methods, particularly flux-corrected transport.
He received his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1987.
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- Distinguished University Professor
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- Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Atif M. Memon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, where he founded and heads the Event Driven Software Lab (EDSL).
Researchers at the EDSL study issues of design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance of such software applications. He designed and developed the model-based GUI testing software GUITAR, which operates on Android, iPhone, Java Swing, .NET, Java SWT, UNO, MS Windows, and web systems, and leverages a resource cloud for test automation.
Memon has published more than 90 research articles on event driven systems, software testing, and software engineering. He is the founder of the International Workshop on TESTing Techniques & Experimentation Benchmarks for Event-Driven Software (TESTBEDS). He also helped develop the workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Software and Systems in Computer Science (EVALUATE).
He is the serial editor of Advances in Computers, published by Elsevier. This series, since its first volume in 1960 and now the oldest series still being published, covers new developments in computer technology. He is an elected member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation ICST, the largest conference on software testing.
Memon also serves on various editorial boards, including that of the Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability. He has served on numerous National Science Foundation panels and program committees, including ICSE, FSE, ICST, WWW, ASE, ICSM, and WCRE. Additionally, Memon is serving on a National Academy of Sciences panel as an expert in the area of computer science and information technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program, sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, and started at the University of Maryland shortly after. In 2007, Memon was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a visiting researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Centre.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Bahar Asgari is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Within the field of computer architecture, Asgari's research interests include but are not limited to domain-specific architecture design, near memory processing, and reconfigurable computing.
More specifically, her research has revolved around efficiently accelerating sparse problems. Her proposed hardware accelerators and hardware/software co-optimization solutions that deal with essential challenges of sparse problems contribute to widespread application domains from neural networks and recommendation systems to scientific computing. Asgari is also interested in developing intelligent dynamically reconfigurable computation platforms with the aid of machine learning to envision the requirements of data and algorithms in the future.
She spent the last year working at Google on its Systems and Services Infrastructure team. While there, Asgari contributions included improving the performance of systems developed in Google as well as setting roadmaps across various tradeoffs to shape the next generation of systems, with a focus on optimizing memory utilization, performance and cost.
Asgari received her doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2021.
While at Georgia Tech, she was a member of the Computer Architecture and System Lab and the High Performance Computer Architecture Lab.
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- Technical Advisor
- Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Ben Shneiderman is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and founding director (1983 to 2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, where he remains a member. He also holds affiliate appointments in the Institute for Systems Research and the College of Information Studies (iSchool).
Shneiderman is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the internet. His move into information visualization spawned Spotfire, known for pharmaceutical drug discovery and genomic data analysis.
Shneiderman is a technical advisor for the treemap visualization producer, the Hive Group.
Benjamin B. Bederson is an emeritus professor of computer science and a past director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and the College of Information Studies (iSchool).
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- Adjunct Professor
- Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Lackey received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Houston.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Associate Director of Research Administration
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Assistant Professor / Data Science
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- Coordinator, Maryland Cybersecurity Center ( MC2 )
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- Professor
- Professor / Database System Architecture
Daniel Abadi is a professor of computer science.
His research interests involve database system architecture and implementation, especially at the intersection with scalable and distributed systems.
Before coming to UMD, Abadi was an associate professor of computer science at Yale University.
Abadi is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Churchill Scholarship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, the 2013-14 Yale Provost's Teaching Prize, and the 2013 VLDB Early Career Researcher Award.
Abadi received his doctorate in computer science from MIT in 2007.
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- Faculty Research Assistant, Immersive Media Design
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- Managing Director, Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society ( TRAILS )
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- Associate Professor / Networking & Security
David Van Horn is an associate professor of computer science and a member of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and the Lab for Programming Languages.
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- Director of Computing Facilities
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- Distinguished University Professor
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair
Dinesh Manocha is the Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair in the Department of Computer Science with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and UMIACS.
Most recently, Manocha was the Matthew Mason/Phi Delta Theta Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His research is focused on geometric and simulation algorithms with applications to computer graphics, robotics and virtual environments.
Manocha has published more than 480 papers in leading conferences and journals on computer graphics, robotics, computational geometry, databases, multimedia, high-performance computing and symbolic computation, and has received 15 Best Paper and "Test of Time" awards.
He was co-founder of Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by Valve Inc.
He has been recognized with numerous awards for his research and scholarship, including the NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Sloan Fellowship, IBM Fellowship, SIGMOD IndySort Winner, Honda Research Award, and UNC Hettleman Prize.
Manocha is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE, and has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Adjunct Associate Professor in
- Reviewer
Dmitry N. Zotkin is an adjunct associate professor in UMIACS and a member of the Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory, the Center for Automation Research (CfAR), and the Computer Vision Laboratory.
Zotkin is working with audio and acoustic signal processing. His main research interests are spatial audio capture and reproduction.
Zotkin also works in related areas, such as microphone arrays, auditory scene analysis, and fast numerical methods for the acoustic wave equation.
He is an author/co-author for two book chapters, 12 journal papers and more than 40 referred conference publications. Zotkin was the main author of a 2006 paper describing a novel fast personalization/customization method for a personal 3-D audio system. UMD has obtained a patent on the relevant technology and has licensed it to companies aimed at widespread use of personalized spatial audio at the consumer level.
Zotkin is a regular reviewer for several audio-related IEEE Transactions and for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He has served on the program committee or as a reviewer for many of the major conferences in his research area. He is also a member of the Acoustical Society of America.
Zotkin received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland in 2002.
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- Executive Director of Administration & Operations
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Distinguished University Professor
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- Professor / Scientific Computing
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- Administrative Assistant, CfAR
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- Assistant Director, Technical Students Program
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- Professor and Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics
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- Associate Professor / Data Ethics
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- Assistant Professor / Software Reliability & Security
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- Professor / Database Systems
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- Assistant Director of Communications
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- Assistant Director of Computational Systems
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Multimedia Communications Coordinator
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- Professor
- Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics
Michael Cummings is a professor of biology and director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB).
He was the first faculty member hired into CBCB, where he leads the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution.
He has published extensively in molecular evolution, phylogenetics, computational biology and bioinformatics (including genotype-phenotype relationships using machine learning), computer science (particularly in the area of grid computing), and bioinformatics education. He has lectured extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Korea, México, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. Because of his varied expertise, he has served the scientific community through participation in numerous national and international committees, panels, symposia, workshops and advisory boards.
From 2000 through 2011, he directed or co-directed the Workshop on Molecular Evolution, with 17 instances held in Atlanta (at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Fort Collins, Washington, D.C. (at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution), Woods Hole, and Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic. From 2009 through 2011, he co-directed the Workshop on Comparative Genomics with three instances held in Fort Collins, Washington, D.C., and Český Krumlov. These advanced workshops have trained more than 1200 faculty/principal investigators, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students from more than 70 countries.
He received his doctorate in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 1992, and completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Studies of Evolution, and at the University of California, Riverside. He was a scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory and has held a guest professorship at the University of Konstanz.
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Professor / Reliability & Security
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- Director
- Professor and Director
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
His research focuses on subtle interventions to reduce stress, such as guiding people to breathe slowly with subtle haptic cues from office or car furniture, and passive sensing of affective and physiological biomarkers derived from existing devices (such as computers, phones, etc.).
Before joining UMD, Paredes was a clinical assistant professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He earned his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015.
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Pablo E. Paredes Castro is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science.
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- Distinguished University Professor
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- Adjunct Professor
- Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Stephen Altschul is a senior investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
His research focuses on the development of algorithms and measures for the comparison and analysis of DNA and protein molecules.
He helped develop the Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) program for global multiple sequence alignment, the MACAW and Gibbs sampling programs for local multiple alignment, and the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) suite of programs for database similarity search.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Director of Communications
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- Associate Professor / System Security
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- Associate Professor / Data Science
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Victor R. Basili is a professor emeritus of computer science.
He served as chairman of the Department of Computer Science from 1982 to 1988. He founded the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering - Maryland, where he served as executive director from 1998 to 2004. Basili was also one of the founders and principals in the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at NASA/GSFC (1976 to 2001).
Basili has been working on measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process and product for more than 30 years.
He has worked with many organizations, including AT&T, Boeing, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericsson, FAA, GE, GTE, IBM, Lucent, MCC, and Motorola, and has been a grant recipient from NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, AFOSR, AFRL, DARPA, IBM, Burroughs, Hughes, VITRO, NEC, Finseil, Amdahl, Coopers and Lybrand, Toho Gas, Ricoh, Mutsuhito Panasonic, Sogei, Daimler Benz, Bellcore and Fujitsu. He is a recipient of a 1989 NASA Group Achievement Award, a 1990 NASA/GSFC Productivity Improvement and Quality Enhancement Award, the 1997 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics and Computer Science by the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 2000 Outstanding Research Award from ACM SIGSOFT, and the 2003 Harlan Mills Award for the IEEE Computer Society.
Basili has authored more than 250 journal and refereed conference papers, given more than 50 keynote addresses, served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and as Program Chair and General Chair of the 6th and 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, respectively. He was an editor of the Journal of Systems and Software. He is founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, published by Springer. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow.
He received a B.S. degree from Fordham College and an M.S. degree from Syracuse University, both in mathematics. Basili received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recipient of the Laurea Honoris Causa in Informatic Engineering from the University of Sannio in Italy (2004) and an Honorary Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (dr.rer.nat h.c) from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2005.
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- Coordinator, Payroll and Benefits
With a background in computer science, economics and information science, Ai is creating end-to-end data science pipelines that have real-world applications.
He received his doctoral degree in information science from the University of Michigan's School of Information.
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Director of Research Program Administration
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Assistant Professor / Software Security