Positions:

• Professor: Dept. of Computer Science,University of Maryland and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computing Studies (UMIACS)

Awards and Honors:

• Mobile Learning Fellow, 2010, UMD OIT/Center for Teaching Excellence.
• Senior Member IEEE, 2003, ACM 2006.
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award 1995--1998
• Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, CMPS 1995

Academic Degree: Ph.D. University of California at Irvine, 1991

Professional Service: 

• Served on editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
• Co-organizer: New Visions for Software Design & Productivity: Research & Applications Workshop of the Interagency Working Group for Information Technology Research and Development (ITRD) Software Design and Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group. Click here for final report.

News and Events: 

• I recently appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show where I discussed the booming job market in mobile application development. Tech Tuesday: Where the Jobs Are
• Android Teaching Materials: Programming the Android Platform: A Student-Driven Effort to Develop Open-Source Android Teaching Materials Link to Fall 2011 CMSC436: Programming Handheld Devices.
• My paper "A.A. Porter and R.W. Selby, Empirically Guided Software Development Using Metric-Based Classification" was listed as one of the 20 most-widely cited articles published in the 25 year history of IEEE Software.
• Atif Memon and I gave a lecture about our research at Google's 2nd Conference on Test Automation in New York, August 23-24, 2007. Click here to view the lecture, entitled " Skoll: A System and Approach for Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance" on YouTube. The accompanying presentation slides can be found here.

Mobile App Development

• MobileTeacher -- YouTube demo
• To learn more about Massive Online Open Courseware I've begun working on "Programming the Android Platform." It's pretty rough at this point, but feel free to take a look and give me suggestions for improvement. Please be aware that the course is underr construction and, therefore, likely to change without notice. - Google CourseBuilder Instance