Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award; his paper 'A Tactic-Centric Approach for Automating Traceability of Quality Concerns' received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE'2012; another paper 'Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird' received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture; served as an associated editor for IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE) and Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Journals.
Research Experience
Served as Kodak Endowed Chair, Associate Professor, and Director of Research at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute and Software Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology; led several large fundamental research and technology transition projects with the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and National Science Foundation (NSF); worked as a faculty fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2017.
Education
No specific educational background information provided.
Background
Full professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and also the director of Indo-Pacific Cybersecurity & Software Assurance Laboratory. His research spans a broad area including trustworthy software, software assurance, cybersecurity, AI, scientific software development, and sustainable disposal.
Miscellany
Currently serves on the advisory board of two leading software companies in the technology development sector; a public speaker in the area of software architecture and application security; an ACM Distinguished Speaker, has been ALTA Distinguished Speaker at Alcatel-Lucent, and given several technical briefings.