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Brief Professional BiographyAlexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (UK). He also holds an affiliated appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (US). Prof. Wolf received the B.A. degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, majoring in both Geology and Computer Science. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prof. Wolf was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now AT&T Labs Research and Bell Laboratories) in Murray Hill, New Jersey, before joining the University of Colorado faculty. During his years at the University of Colorado, Prof. Wolf held the ranks of assistant, associate, and full professor. He also held the Charles Victor Schelke Chair in the College of Engineering. At the University of Lugano he helped found the Faculty of Informatics, the first computer science faculty in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. Prof. Wolf's research interests are directed toward the discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex software systems. He has published in the areas of software engineering, distributed systems, networking, security, and database management. Prof. Wolf serves as Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) Governing Board (SGB) and is a member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the ACM Council, the governing authority of the 95000-member professional association. He chairs the ACM Software System Award committee and is a member of the ACM Europe Council. Prof. Wolf serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Computer Society journal Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and the Research Highlights section of ACM's flagship publication Communications of the ACM (CACM). He is a participant in the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP). Prof. Wolf previously served as Vice Chair and then Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), on the editorial boards of the ACM journal Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) and the Wiley journal Software Process - Improvement and Practice (SPIP), and has chaired a number of international program committees. Prof. Wolf is a Fellow of the ACM, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit
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Contact PGP public key +44 (0) 207 594 8211 (voice) +44 (0) 207 594 8282 (fax) Department of Computing 180 Queen's Gate Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Administrative assistant: Bridget Gundry, +44 (0) 207 594 1245 |