Education

Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Washington, 1996
    Advisor: David Notkin
    Thesis: Lightweight Structural Summarization as an Aid to Software Evolution

M.S. (Computer Science), University of Washington,1994
    Advisor: David Notkin

B.Sc. Honours (Computing Science), University of Alberta, 1987

Major Employment

Professor, UBC, 2006-present
Associate Professor, UBC, 2001-2006
Assistant Professor, UBC, 1996-2001
Software Designer, MPR Teltech Ltd., 1987-1992

Publications

    See my papers page.

Selected Awards

• 2008, UW Engineering Diamond Award (Early Career)
• 2006, NSERC Steacie Fellowship
• 2006, CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award
• 2006, ACM Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE (paper co-authored with J. Anvik and L. Hiew)
• 2005, AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
• 2005, UBC Killam Research Fellowship
• 2005, ACM Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE (paper co-authored with R. Holmes)
• 2004, Distinguished Teaching Award, Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
• 2003, Peter Wall Early Career Scholar (Associate Professor Cohort)
• 2003, Incredible Instructor Award (for CPSC 507), Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
• 2003-2005, Eclipse Innovation Award, IBM
• 1999, 2001, Incredible Instructor Award (for CPSC 410), Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
• 1999-2000: IBM University Partnership Program - Faculty Development Award
• 1994-1996: NSERC PGS B
• 1992: NSERC PGS A (declined)

Selected Professional Activities (Current)

• Member, Program Committee for ESEC/FSE 2009
• Paper Mentoring Chair, ICSE 2009
• Chair, Program Committee for FSE 2008
• Chair, Steering Committee, Aspect-oriented Software Association (primary sponsor of AOSD Conference)
• Member, Editorial Sub-Board (Contributed Articles), Communications of the ACM
• Member, Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (JESE)

Selected Professional Activities (Past)

• AOSD
       General Chair [2004]
       Program Committee Member [2005]
       Tutorials Chair [2007]
   
• FSE/ESEC
       Program Committee Member [2006, 2000, 1999]
       Doctoral Symposium Committee Member [2006]
   
• ICSE
      Program Committee Member [2008, 2007, 2005, 2003, 1999]
      Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair [2005]
      Workshops Co-Chair [2000]
      Tutorial Committee Member [1998]
      Committee Member, Doctoral Symposium [1997]
      Student Volunteer Coordinator [1995]
   
• Invited/Keynote Talks
       AOSD [2009]
       Columbia University, Dept. of Computer Science (Distinguished Lecture Series) [2009]
       Japanese Software Engineering Symposium [2008]
       ICSM [2007]
       CUSEC [2007]
       ECOOP [2005]
       WCRE [2003]
   
• OOPSLA
       Program Committee Member [1997-1999, 2001-2003]
       Tutorial Commitee Member [1996]
       Committee Member, OOPSLA Most Influential Papers1986-1996 [2006]
   
• Workshop Co-Organizer
       Workshop on Tools for AOSD, OOPSLA 2002
       Workshop on Beyond Design Patterns (mis)used, OOPSLA 2001
       Workshop on Advanced Separation of Concerns, ICSE 2001 
       Multi-dimensional Separation of Concerns in OO Systems, OOPSLA 99
       Workshop on Testing Smalltalk Applications, OOPSLA 95
   
• UBC
       Associate Head - Graduate Program, Dept. of Comp. Sci. (2001-2003)
   
• Other
       Program Committee Member, STC 2008
       Program Committee Member, MSR 2007
       Program Committee Member, PASTE 2007
       Program Committee Member, SPLC 2006
       Program Committee Member, CASCON 2006, 2008
       Program Committee Member, WOSP 2002
       Program Committee Member, GCSE 2001
       Program Committee Member, ISSTA 2000
       Program Committee Member, PASTE 1999
       Program Committee Member, SSR 1999
       Program Committee Member, WOSP 1998
       Program Committee Member, ICDCS 1997 (Lang, Tool, and SE subarea),
       Program Committee Member, Reflection 1996

Last updated: May 27, 2009