Biography
Background
A former research chair at NASA, Prof. Menzies earned his Ph.D. from UNSW (Australia), 1995.
Research
Prof. Menzies researches SE, data mining, AI optimization, and search-based SE, and better methods for open access science.
He is the director of the NcState RAISE lab (real world AI for software engineering) and is the curator of the PROMISE repository (storage for SE project data).
Over his career, he has won over $7M in grants; supervised 7+23 Ph.D.+masters students; and written 230+ referred papers (making him a top-100 most cited researcher out of 80,000+ authors (in SE, 2004 to 2014).
Teaching
He teach software engineering (in the spring) and automated software engineering (in the fall).
Service
At the time of this writing (Jan'15) he serves on
- program committess for leading international conferences (Icse'16, Ase'15, Fse'15, Icpc'15, Msr'15, Ease'15, NasBase'15, Raise'15, BigDSE'15).
- editorial board of leading journals (IEEE Trans on SE and Automated SE and and Empirical SE)
He also has appointments as co-general-chair of ICSME'16; co-pc-chair of ICSE NIER'15; and serve on ASE conference steering committee.
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents
- Data Sciences and Analytics
- Health Care Information Technology
- Information and Knowledge Management
- Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Fall Courses
- CSC 591-023 LEC SP Topic CSC - Foundation of Software Science TTh 4:30pm-5:45pm Room: 2232 Engineering Building 3
- CSC 791-023 LEC Advncd Topics CSC - Foundation of Software Science TTh 4:30pm-5:45pm Room: 2232 Engineering Building 3
Awards
- Mining Software Repositories Foundational Contribution Award - 2017
- Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award - 2016
- IBM Faculty Award - 2016, 2017
- LexisNexis Faculty Award - 2015, 2016, 2017
- Laboratory for Analytical Science funding - 2017, 2018
- Software Engineering Institute Research grant - 2016