DR. VICTOR R. BASILI
Dr. Victor R. Basili is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Center - Maryland, and one of the founders and principals in the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL). He works on measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process and product and has consulted for many organizations, including AT&T, Boeing, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericsson, FAA, GE, GTE, IBM, Lucent, MCC, Motorola, NRL, NSWC, and NASA.
He is a recipient of a 1989 NASA Group Achievement Award, a 1990 NASA/GSFC Productivity Improvement and Quality Enhancement Award, the 1997 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics and Computer Science by the Washington Academy of Sciences, and the 2000 Outstanding Research Award from ACM SIGSOFT. Dr. Basili has authored over 160 journal and refereed conference papers, has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and as Program Chair and General Chair of the 6th and 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, respectively. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, published by Kluwer. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow.