As part of the CIS Lecture Series
CISters is hosting a meeting with professor Dr. Barbara G. Ryder J. Byron Maupin Professor of Engineering Head - Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech
- When: 09/23/11 at 10:00 AM
- Where: Smith Hall 102A
BIO
Dr. Barbara G. Ryder is Head of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where she holds the J. Byron Maupin Professorship in Engineering. She received her Ph.D degree in Computer Science at Rutgers in 1982, and served on the faculty of Rutgers from 1982-2008. She also worked in the 1970's at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Dr. Ryder's research interests lie in static and dynamic program analyses for object-oriented systems, focusing on usage in practical software tools for ensuring the quality and security of industrial-strength applications.
Dr. Ryder became a Fellow of the ACM in 1998, received the ACM President's Award in 2008, was selected as a CRA-W Distinguished Professor in 2004, and received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award in 2001. She has been an active leader in ACM (e.g., Vice President 2010-2012, Secretary-Treasurer 2008-2010; ACM Council 2000-2008; General Chair, FCRC 2003; Chair ACM SIGPLAN (1995-97)) and has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Computer Research Association (1998-2001). Dr. Ryder has served as an editorial board member of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Software, Practice and Experience and Science of Computer Programming.