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Medvidović Office: SAL 106 (Chair) / SAL 338
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Appointments Nenad Medvidović is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also a Professor in the Informatics Program at USC and a faculty associate of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine. Medvidović is the Founding Director of the SoftArch Laboratory at USC. He has served as Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (2009-2013), as well as Vice-Chair for Tenure Affairs (2021-2022) and Associate Chair for Ph.D. Affairs in USC's CS Department (2011-2015). Medvidović is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has Chaired the ACM Software System Award Committee (2021-2022), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) (2015-2018), and Steering Committees for the International Conference on Software Engineering (2013-2015) and the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (2015-2017). He was the Program Co-Chair of ICSE 2011. Education Medvidović received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine. |
Research Medvidović’s research interests are in the area of architecture-based software development. His work focuses on event-based architectures; architecture recovery, maintenance, and evolution; middleware facilities for architectural implementation; domain-specific architectures; architectural styles and patterns; and architectures of distributed, decentralized, mobile, resource constrained, and embedded systems. Recently, he has worked on leveraging architectural characteristics of mobile applications to improve their testing. He is a co-author of a textbook on software architectures. Honors Medvidović is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER (2000) award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010), the OCEC Distinguished Engineering Merit Award (2018), and the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award (2020). He is a co-author of the ICSE 1998 and SEAMS 2007 papers that were given the respected conferences' Most Influential Paper ("test-of-time") awards. Several of his other papers have won Best Paper awards at conferences and Most Cited recognitions from journals. Medvidović is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow. |