I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, where I hold an NSERC University Faculty Award.

I aim at furthering the collaborative side of software development practice to support improved software development processes and software products' quality. My research interests thus lie in the areas of Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

I lead SEGAL (Software Engineering Global interAction Laboratory). Our goal is to advance the practice of collaborative software engineering, particularly in global software teams which work across geographical, temporal and organizational boundaries. Our research methodologies include learning from advances in research as well as from software developers' work practices.

Current projects in collaborative SE are addressing issues of requirements engineering, software quality, knowledge management, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work.  If you are interested in collaborating with SEGAL or becoming a graduate student in the SEGAL lab, visit the list of our projects and drop me a note with specific details on how and why you would like to work on these projects.

Recent adventures in our busy lives:

• Publicity Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010)
• Steering Committe Member for the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)
• PC Member at the 16th ACM SIGSFOT 2008/FSE 16 Conference, Atlanta, Nov 2008
• PC Member at the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Sep 2008
• PC Member at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Bangalore, India, August 2008
• PC Member at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Munich, Germany, August 2007
• PC Member at the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, New Delhi, Oct 2007
• Chair of Doctorial Symposium at the ACM SIGSOFT 2006/ FSE14, Portland, Oregon, Nov 2006
• PC co-Chair at the First International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Florianopolis, Brazil, Oct 2006
• Editor Special Issue on Global Software Development, IEEE Software, Sep 2006
• PC Member at the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Sep 2006
• Organizer of the Workshop on Distributed Software Development at RE05, Aug 2005
• PC Member at the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, Aug 2005
• PC Member at the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Noosa Heads, Australia, Nov 2005
• PC Member at the 11th International Symposium on Software Metrics, Como Lake, Italy, Sep 2005
• Established the Working Group in Distributed Software Engineering
• Held the first virtual workshop, hosted in Victoria, Sep 2004