Editorial Board

Diomidis Spinellis is a professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. From 2009 to 2011 he served as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance, while in 2013 he worked as a site reliability engineering senior software engineer for Google. He is the author of two award-winning books, Code Reading and Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective, as well as more than 200 widely cited scientific papers. Spinellis has written the UMLGraph tool and code that ships with Mac OS X and BSD Unix distributions. He holds an MEng in software engineering and a PhD in computer science, both from Imperial College London. Spinellis currently serves on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and is a Senior Member of IEEE and the ACM. For more information, visit www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds. Contact him at dds@computer.org.

Forrest Shull is assistant director for empirical research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His role is to lead work with the US Department of Defense, other government agencies, national labs, industry, and academic institutions to advance the use of empirically grounded information in software engineering, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. He has been a lead researcher on projects for NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation, and commercial companies. He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of the Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering. Contact him at fjshull@sei.cmu.edu.

Henry Muccini has served the software-engineering community since 1997. Since then, he has been investigating the role of software architectures, model-driven engineering, and software verification and validation in producing higher-quality systems. Muccini received a PhD in computer science from the University of Rome—La Sapienza in 2002. He then was an assistant professor at the University of L’Aquila while doing his postdoc at the University of California, Irvine. In 2006, he co-organized his first workshop, the 2006 International Workshop on the Role of Software Architecting on Testing and Analysis (ROSATEA 06). At the same time, he became the coordinator of GSEEM, an international double-degree program in software engineering. In 2012 he became a member of the DEWS (Design Methodologies of Embedded Controllers, Wireless Interconnect, and Systems-on-Chip) excellence center. Since 2013 he has been the steering-committee chair of the International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems. In 2014 he became an adjunct faculty member at Amrita University, an associate professor at the University of L’Aquila, and a member of IFIP WG 2.10 on Software Architecture. Muccini is IEEE Software‘s associate editor for theme issues. Contact him at henry.muccini@univaq.it, www.henrymuccini.com. or it.linkedin.com/in/henrymuccini.

Agile Practices: Casper Lassenius is an associate professor of software engineering at Aalto University. His research interests revolve around software processes and software quality assurance and testing, recently focusing on large organizations’ adoption and adaption of agile and lean development. He’s a firm believer in close collaboration between researchers and practitioners, and never gets bored trying to understand and solve real-world software development problems. Lassenius received an MSc and a DSc from the Helsinki University of Technology. Contact him at casperl@mit.edu.

Cloud Systems: Jorge Cardoso joined the University of Coimbra in 2009. He was a guest professor at the Technical University of Dresden in 2013 and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2014. He’s also the lead architect for cloud computing at Huawei Technologies. Previously, he worked for SAP Research on the Internet of Services and Boeing on enterprise application integration. Cardoso received a PhD from the University of Georgia. He’s the vice chair of the KEYSTONE (Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources) COST Action, an EU research network bringing together more than 70 researchers from 26 countries. Contact him at jcardoso@dei.uc.pt.

Configuration Management: Sven Apel holds the Chair of Software Product Lines at the University of Passau. His research interests include novel programming paradigms, software engineering and product lines, and formal and empirical methods. Apel received his PhD in computer science from the University of Magdeburg in 2007. He’s a member of IFIP Working Group 2.11 on Program Generation. His work has received awards from the Ernst-Denert Foundation and Karin-Witte Foundation. Contact him at apel@uni-passau.de.

Departments: Ipek Ozkaya is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include improving software development efficiency and system evolution with an emphasis on software architecture practices, software economics, and agile development. Her most recent research focuses on building the theoretical and empirical foundations of managing technical debt in large-scale, complex software intensive systems. Ozkaya also works with government and industry organizations to improve their software architecture practices, and serves as an adjunct faculty member for the Master of Software Engineering Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Contact her at ozkaya@sei.cmu.edu.

Design/Architecture: Uwe Zdun is a full professor at the University of Vienna. His research interests include software patterns, software architecture, language engineering, SOA, distributed systems, and object orientation. He is author or coauthor of Frag, Extended Object Tcl (XOTcl), Leela, ActiWeb, and many other open source software systems. He’s also coauthor of Remoting Patterns: Foundations of Enterprise, Internet, and Realtime Distributed Object Middleware (John Wiley & Sons) and Software-Architektur: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Praxis (Elsevier/Spektrum). He’s the European editor of Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming. Contact him at uwe.zdun@univie.ac.at.

Development Infrastructures and Tools: Thomas Zimmermann is a researcher in the Empirical Software Engineering Group at Microsoft Research and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. His research interests include empirical software engineering, mining software repositories, software reliability, development tools, and social networking. He is best known for his research on systematic mining of version archives and bug databases to conduct empirical studies and to build tools to support developers and managers. Tom coorganized an ICSM session called Myths in Software Engineering, workshops on software defects, and recommendation systems in software engineering. He received two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards for his work published at the ICSE 07 and FSE 08 conferences. He received a PhD in computer science from Saarland University, Germany. Contact him at tzimmer@microsoft.com.

Distributed and Enterprise Software: John Grundy is head of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at the Swinburne University of Technology. His interests include software methods and tools, software architecture, visual languages, software process technology, and user interfaces. He has written for many leading journals and conferences and worked with a range of software companies on applied research and consulting projects. Contact him at jgrundy@swin.edu.au.

Empirical Studies: Laurie Williams is a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Her research focuses on software security, software testing and reliability, and software process (particularly agile software development). She’s a codirector of the NCSU Science of Security lablet. Williams received a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah, an MBA from Duke University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. She worked for IBM for nine years, and has been at NCSU since 2000. She coauthored a paper that was selected as a “top pick” for IEEE Software’s 25th anniversary. Contact her at williams@csc.ncsu.edu.

Human Factors: Marian Petre is a professor of computing at the Open University in the UK. Her research interests include empirical studies with professional software developers, while her most recent work concerned software development by scientists. Petre co-edited Software Designers in Action (CRC Press), providing an interdisciplinary perspective on software design. She received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, in recognition of her research on the nature of expertise in software design and on reasoning and representation in software development. Petre has a PhD in computer science from University College London and a BA in psycholinguistics from Swarthmore College. Contact her at m.petre@open.ac.uk.

J1C2: Nicholas Kraft is a principal scientist at ABB Corporate Research and an IEEE Software conference correspondent. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, particularly program comprehension and software repository mining. Previously, he was an associate professor in the University of Alabama’s Department of Computer Science. Kraft received a PhD in computer science from Clemson University. He’s a Senior Member of IEEE and the ACM. Contact him at nicholas.a.kraft@us.abb.com.

Management: John Favaro is an independent consultant based in Pisa, Italy. His software reuse work has ranged from development of domain analysis methodologies to software reuse economics. In 1996, he introduced the principles of value-based software engineering management in an IEEE Software article. He then applied those ideas and option-pricing theory to the analysis of software reuse investment. More recently, he investigated the relationship of value-based management to agile development processes. He guest-edited IEEE Software‘s May/June 2004 special issue on return on investment in the software industry. He received an MSc in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him at john@favaro.net.

Mobile Applications and Systems: Alexis Eduardo Ocampo Ramírez is the enterprise architect for Ecopetrol. He’s in charge of defining IT principles, standards, and guidelines; aligning IT projects and programs with enterprise architecture principles; and defining, improving, and monitoring enterprise architecture performance indicators. Ramírez received a master’s in computer science from Universidad de los Andes and a PhD in informatics from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Contact him at alexiseduardoo@googlemail.com.

Models and Methods: Paris Avgeriou is a full professor of software engineering at the University of Groningen, where he leads the Software Engineering and Architecture research group. His research interests involve software architecture, with an emphasis on architecture modeling, knowledge, evolution, patterns, metrics, technical debt, and links to requirements. He champions the evidence-based paradigm in software-engineering research and works toward closing the gap between industry and academia. Contact him at paris@cs.rug.nl.

Professional Practice: Rajiv Ramnath is a professor of practice at the Ohio State University (OSU). Back at OSU after a three-year rotation as a program director at the National Science Foundation, he collaborates extensively with industry and other departments on his research and education programs. His expertise ranges from wireless-sensor networking and pervasive computing to business–IT alignment, enterprise architecture, software engineering, e-government, collaborative environments, and work management systems. He previously was vice president and chief technology officer at Concentus Technology and led product development and government-funded R&D, notably through the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols program. There, his R&D lab, almost unbeknownst to him, became a startup, so Rajiv reluctantly became an entrepreneur! He also has advised information-technology-based startups and small businesses. Rajiv received a PhD and an MS in computer science from OSU and his bachelor of electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Contact him at ramnath@cse.ohio-state.edu.

Programming Languages and Paradigms: Adam Welc is a principal member of the technical staff at Oracle Labs, where he works on the development of domain-specific languages. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Intel and Adobe, developing novel approaches for concurrent programming. He has a solid track record of research publications and has often been invited to speak in both academic and industry contexts. In addition, Welc’s record of service to the research community has been exemplary, including working as a program committee member for many symposia, workshops, and conferences. The practical applicability of his work is demonstrated by the seven patent applications on which he is a co-author. Contact him at adam@adamwelc.org.

Quality: Annie Combelles is CEO of inspearit, a consulting company resulting from merge and acquisition of Q-Labs and CIBIT. With 170 high skilled engineers, inspearit operates in Europe (France, Italy, The Netherlands) and Asia (China and Singapore) to assist IT client organizations to perform better. Having long expertise in CMMI-based process improvement, architecture and product quality, inspearit has recently open a Centre of Excellence Agile and Lean to sustain clients in the transition to these technologies. Contact her at annie.combelles@inspearit.com.

Department Editors

Tim Menzies is a full professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, where he teaches programming languages, software engineering (SE), automated SE, and foundations of software science. He’s the director of the RAISE (Real-World AI for SE) Lab, which explores SE, data mining, AI, search-based SE, and open-access science. He’s the author of more than 250 publications and editor of three books summarizing the state of the art in software analytics. From 2002 to 2004, he was the SE research chair at NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Facility. Menzies is the cofounder of the PROMISE conference series, devoted to reproducible experiments in SE. He’s an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Automated Software Engineering, Big Data, Information Software Technology, and the Software Quality Journal. He served as cochair for the ICSE 15 NIER track and co-general chair of ICMSE 2016. He’s the editor of the Redirections department. For more, see menzies.us.

Cesare Pautasso is a full professor at the Software Institute of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously, he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich. His research group focuses on building experimental systems to explore the architecture, design, and engineering of next-generation Web information systems. His teaching, training, and consulting activities cover advanced topics related to emerging Web technologies, RESTful business process management and cloud computing. He is a coauthor of SOA with REST: Principles, Patterns & Constraints for Building Enterprise Solutions with REST (Prentice Hall). Pautasso served as the program cochair of ICSOC 2013, ECOWS 2010, and Software Composition 2008. He also initiated the series of Workshops on RESTful Design (WS-REST) at the WWW conference. Pautasso is a Senior Member of IEEE and an advisory board member of EnterpriseWeb. He is also a coeditor of the Insights column. Contact him at c.pautasso@ieee.org.

Rafael Prikladnicki is a professor in the Computer Science School at PUCRS, Brazil. His current work focuses on distributed software development and agile methods for software development. He is mainly interested in how global software engineering impacts organizational decisions, the role of Brazil in the global IT industry, how global software engineering interplays with agile methods, and the use of agile methods to build high performance software development teams. He holds a PhD degree in computer science from PUCRS and was visiting professor at the University of Victoria, Canada, from 2006 to 2007. For three years, he served as the director of the Technology Management Agency (AGT) at PUCRS, managing the interaction between PUCRS and its partners (industry and government) for the development of R&D projects. Since December of 2013 he has served as the director of Tecnopuc (PUCRS’ science and technology park). He also leads one of the main research groups in distributed software development in Brazil (MuNDDoS research group). In 2011, he received the PhD innovation award, promoted by FAPERGS (the state of Rio Grande do Sul funding agency) for his innovative research on global software engineering, conducted in collaboration with companies at Tecnopuc. For more information, visit www.inf.pucrs.br/~rafael/cv/index.htm. Prikladnicki is the Advisory Board chair and a conference correspondent. Contact him at rafael.prikladnicki@pucrs.br.

Eoin Woods is CTO at Endava, the European IT services company. He is also a sought-after speaker, appearing regularly at many important practitioner-focused conferences such as SPA, WICSA, Software Architect, and QCON. He is also the coauthor of the widely cited software architecture book Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives (Addison-Wesley), now in its second edition. Woods is the editor of the Pragmatic Architect column. Contact him at eoin.woods@endava.com.

Olaf Zimmermann is a professor and institute partner at the Institute for Software at the University of Applied Sciences (HSR FHO) in Rapperswil, Switzerland. His areas of interest include web-based application and integration architectures, SOA and cloud design, and architectural knowledge management. Previously, Olaf was a senior principal scientist at ABB Corporate Research and a research staff member and executive IT architect at IBM Research who investigated the role of architectural decisions in the design process. From 1999–2005, Zimmermann worked as a solution architect and consultant, helping international clients in multiple industries build enterprise-scale SOA/web services and Java Enterprise Edition solutions on professional services projects. In the beginning of his career, he was a scientific consultant and developer in the IBM European Networking Center (ENC) in Heidelberg, Germany, focusing on industry-specific middleware frameworks for systems and network management. Zimmermann is a certified Open Group Distinguished (Chief/Lead) IT Architect and a member of the editorial board of IEEE Software. He is a regular conference speaker and instructor. He also is an author of Perspectives on Web Services (Springer, 2003) and contributed to several IBM Redbooks, including the first one on Eclipse and Web services (2001). Zimmermann is a coeditor of the Insights column. Contact him at ozimmerm@hsr.ch.