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Photo of Atif as a PhD student in Pittsburgh. The photo was taken by Mary Lou Soffa on her first digital camera.

Atif M. Memon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. He received his BS in Computer Science in 1991 from the University of Karachi, his MS in Computer Science in 1995 from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He was awarded a Gold Medal during his undergraduate education, and received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for his Ph.D. research. In 1995, he received the NSF CAREER award, which is providing five years of support for his research aimed at enhancing testing techniques for event-driven software. His research interests include program testing, software engineering, artificial intelligence, plan generation, reverse engineering, and program structures. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability (STVR), The Open Software Engineering Journal, and the Canadian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences. He has served on numerous National Science Foundation panels. He is currently serving on a National Academy of Sciences panel as an expert in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program, sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).