Program Chairs/Committee
Secretary
Peggy Wallace
703-404-9293
pwallace@rstcorp.com
Chairs
Dr. Bassem Al-Halabi, Local Arrangement Chair
Dr. Lionel C. Briand, Tutorials Co-Chair
Ram Chillarege, Industry Practices Co-Chair
William W. Everett, Finance Chair
Bill Farr, Tools/Exhibition Co-Chair
Nishith Goel, Industry Track Co-Chair
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Symposium Chair
Ryan A. MacMichael, Publicity Co-Chair
Allen Nikora, Tools/Exhibition Co-Chair
Jeffery Payne, Industry Track Co-Chair
Anthony Rivers, Industry Practices Co-Chair
Dr. P. Santhanam, Tutorials Co-Chair, Industry Practices Co-Chair
Jeffrey M. Voas, Program Chair
Committee
Full listing
Dr. Bassem Al-Halabi
Dr. Lionel C. Briand, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
E-Mail: briand@iese.fhg.de
Ram Chillarege, Sr. Mgr, Center for Software Engineering, IBM Research, USA
Dr. Ram Chillarege is the senior manager and head of the Center for Software Engineering at IBM Research. He began his career atIBM as a researcher in '86 and his professional interests have grown into software engineering and its practice.
Ram received the IBM outstanding innovation award for the invention of Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) in '93, and was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in '97.
Ram received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Mysore '74, BE in Electrical Enginereing from the Indian Institute of Science '77, ME in Automation from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore '79. He ran a consulting business for a couple years then returned to school. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in '86.
His professional associations include: program co-chair of the International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing in '98, chair of the International symposium on Software Reliability Engineering in '96, and chair of the International workshop on Fault and Error Models in '94. He was associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability '9? -9?, and co-guest editor of the speical issue of the IEEE-TR in '91.
E-Mail: ramchill@us.ibm.com
William W. Everett, SPRE, Inc., USA
Bill Farr, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA
Nishith Goel, CISTEL, USA
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA
E-Mail: taghi@cse.fau.edu
Ryan A. MacMichael, Webmaster, Reliable Software Technologies, USA
Ryan A. MacMichael is the Webmaster at Reliable Software Technologies. He graduated from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA with a BS in Computer Science. MacMichael has designed numerous sites including the online version of Gary McGraw's book Securing Java, the Reliable Software Technologies site, and the ISACC'99 site. His personal web site has been around since December of 1994 and he's recently debuted two new domains (uajournal.com and halfpintmusic.com).
MacMichael's early technical writing included a telecommunications column for BBS Callers Digest. His interests include music production and journalism.
E-Mail: rmacmich@rstcorp.com
Allen Nikora, JPL, USA
Jeffery Payne, President, CEO, Reliable Software Technologies, USA
Jeffery E. Payne is President and CEO of Reliable Software Technologies. Under his direction, RST has grown 150-fold since its inception in 1992. The company is on pace to be listed as one of Washington DC's 50 fastest growing private companies and as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States after 1998. RST's success is built upon its award winning, multi-million dollar research program and exceptional corporate culture. Payne developed and implemented the business philosophy and culture that allowed RST to not lose a technical employee during its first 6 years of business. RST was recently awarded a FastTrack Best Practice award for its ability to retain and motivate its employees. Payne also led the startup and growth of RST's consulting division, growing the organization from its inception to a multi-million dollar operation in less than two years. Until recently, Payne directed the startup of RST's commercial product division, producing three major releases of RST's award winning WhiteBox products. He is now focusing on his vision for the future of software assurance and working to make this vision a reality at RST.
Payne is a recognized expert in software assurance techniques and issues. He has published over 30 technical papers and given over 40 invited lectures in the areas of software testing, reliability, quality, safety, and security. Payne holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and a BS degree in Computer Science from Allegheny College. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and a past National ACM lecturer. Payne is co-founder and currently the Chairman of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a member of the Loudoun County Environmental Council, a set of local business leaders working to reduce the environmental impact of growth within one of the fastest growing counties in the country.
E-Mail: jepayn@rstcorp.com
Anthony Rivers, Viatec Research, USA
E-Mail: arivers@viatec-research.com
Dr. P. Santhanam, IBM, USA
E-Mail: pasanth@us.ibm.com
Jeffrey M. Voas, Chief Scientist, Reliable Software Technologies, USA
Jeffrey Voas is the Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientist at Reliable Software Technologies. Voas heads the Research Division and is currently the principal investigator on a research initiative for NASA-Ames. He has published over 125 journal and conference papers in the areas of software testability, software reliability, debugging, safety, fault-tolerance, design, and computer security. Voas is widely recognized as a pioneer both in applying practical solutions for measuring software testability and in inventing novel applications for software fault injection methods. Voas's book, Software Assessment: Reliability, Safety, Testability (Wiley 1995), is often used as a text in advanced software engineering courses. Voas and Dr. Gary McGraw recently co-authored Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors (Wiley 1998). Voas is on the Editorial Board for Software Quality Professional, IT Pro, and IEEE Software.
He is the Executive Secretary of the IEEE Reliability Society for 1998, is a member of the IEEE-USA's Technology Policy Council on R&D Policy, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the IEEE's COMPASS Task Force. Voas is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at West Virginia University and is on the Board of Trustees of the Center for National Software Studies, a Washington D.C. think tank on national software policy.
E-Mail: jmvoas@rstcorp.com
Program Committee members:
Local Arrangement Chair
Tutorials Co-Chair
Industry Practices Co-Chair
Finance Chair
Tools/Exhibition Co-Chair
Industry Track Co-Chair
Symposium Chair
Publicity Co-Chair
Tools/Exhibition Co-Chair
Industry Track Co-Chair
Industry Practices Co-Chair
Tutorials Co-Chair
Program Chair