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Professor Leon J. Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Leon J. Osterweil is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, co-director of the Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER), and founding co-director of the Electronic Enterprise Institute, all at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also served as Interim Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from 2001-2005.  Previously he had been a Professor in, and Chair of, Computer Science Departments at both the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He was the founding director of the Irvine Research Unit in Software (IRUS) and the Southern California SPIN.  He has been the Program Committee Chair for such conferences as The 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, The Second International Symposium on Software Testing, Analysis and Validation, the Fourth International Software Process Workshop, the Second Symposium on Software Development Environments, and both the Second and  Fifth International Conferences on the Software Process.  He was also the General Chair of the Sixth ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering,  and the General Chair of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006).   He has been a member of the editorial boards of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methods, IEEE Software, and Software Process Improvement and Practice.

Prof. Osterweil’s research interests focus on the rigorous, precise, and clear definition of processes.  His initial focus was on defining software development processes, but more recently these interests have broadened to encompass of the definition and rigorous analysis of processes in diverse domains, such as medical practice, government activities, and scientific data processing.  This research is shedding light on the nature of processes and software, in addition to offering hope of significant advances in practice in these diverse disciplines.  His research has in the past received important recognition.  He has presented keynote talks at such meetings as CASE 92 in Montreal, Quality Week 2000 in San Francisco, the Inaugural Symposium of JAIST (the Japan Advanced Institute for Software Technology) in Kanazawa, Japan, and ICSE 9 (the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering) where he introduced the concept of Process Programming.  He was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2003.  His ICSE 9 paper has been awarded a prize as the most influential paper of ICSE 9, awarded as a 10-year retrospective.  He has consulted for such organizations as IBM, Bell Laboratories, SAIC, MCC, and TRW, and SEI's Process Program Advisory Board.  Prof. Osterweil is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Courses:

Validation Techniques for Finding Software Bugs 1-day short course, scheduled on: please enquire

Software Engineering Technology for Improving Safety of Medical Processes 1-day short course, scheduled on: please enquire

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