Research

Focuses on requirements methods and tools for getting the appropriate software solution to the right human problem. Prominent themes within this work are FOSS licenses and heterogeneously-licensed systems, the interactions between law and requirements, privacy, effective use of scenarios and narrative requirements, bidirectional connection between stakeholder requirements and later development phases, empirical studies and requirements research, and how stakeholders understand requirements (or fail to).

Background

Assistant Professor Informatics University of Irvine, California
Ph.D. Computer Science North Carolina State University (Annie I. Antón)
Programmer, Team Lead, Manager IBM, Data General, other companies (~10 years)
Computer Scientist Software Cost Reduction (A-7) project Naval Research Laboratory
M.S. Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (David L. Parnas)
[My first Software Engineering course was team-taught by Brooks and Parnas]
B.A. magna cum laude Physics University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Professional activity

Active member of ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, and ΦΒΚ.
Current or former program committee member for the principal Requirements Engineering conferences (RE, REFSQ, WER).
Regular reviewer for TSE, TOSEM, REJ, and other journals.

Erdős number: 4.

Personal summary

Active runner, change ringer, former ballroom dance competitor. Married to a charming lawyer. Raised daughter from 6 months to 6 years; lived two years in St-Jeannet, France.

News:

WER'12
Program Committee
RIGIM'12
Program Committee
RELAW 2012
Program Committee

Prepared talks:

Presenting Software License Conflicts through Argumentation
The Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems
Intellectual Property Rights Requirements for Heterogeneously-Licensed Systems
Marginal Notes on Amethodical Requirements Engineering: What experts learned from experience

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