ISSRE Keynote: Victor Basili

Victor Basili is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He holds a PH.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas and two honorary degrees. He was Director of the Fraunhofer Center - Maryland and a director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA/GSFC. He has worked on measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process and product for over 35 years with numerous companies and government agencies. Methods include Iterative Enhancement, the Goal Question Metric Approach (GQM), the Quality Improvement paradigm (QIP), and the Experience Factory(EF).

Dr. Basili has authored over 250 peer reviewed publications and is a recipient of several awards including the NASA Group Achievement Awards, ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills Award, and the Fraunhofer Medal. He is Co-EIC of the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal and an IEEE and ACM Fellow. For more information, please see his Home Page