Biography

Hausi A. Müller is a Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor at Icesi University in Cali, Colombia. He was Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Engineering (2009-2019).

He is an IEEE Life Member. He is Chair of the IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) (2024-present). He was Co-Chair IEEE Future Directions Quantum Initiative (2019-2023).

He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE)—IEEE Quantum Week. He was General Chair of QCE23, QCE21 & QCE20. IEEE Quantum Week 2023 received an IEEE iCON award. He was the QCE24 Program Board Chair and the QCE22 Finance Chair.

He received the 2024 IEEE Computer Society (CS) Technical & Conference (T&C) Activities Board Distinguished Leadership Award "for unwavering commitment and exceptional contributions to software engineering, quantum computing, and IEEE CS's technical activities."

He served on the IEEE Conferences Committee (2019-2021). He was the Vice President of IEEE Computer Society (CS) Technical and Conferences Activities (T&C) Board (2016–2018), Member of the CS Board of Governors (2015–2017), Chair of TCSE, the CS Technical Council on Software Engineering (2011-2015). He received an IEEE CS Golden Core Member Award (2016) and IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award (2016).

With his research group, he collaborates extensively with industry as an international expert in software engineering, software evolution, quantum computing, distributed quantum computing, hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, distributed quantum computing, adaptive systems, IoT, and intelligent cyber-physical systems.

He is a principal investigator (PI) of an NSERC Quantum Consortium Alliance Grant (2024-29) on Distributed Quantum Computing. He is a PI on an NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Grant on Quantum Computing. He was a PI on an IBM CAS Project on Quantum Problem Solving and Algorithm Design on the IBM Quantum Qiskit platform. He is a PI on of an NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Grant on Dependable Internet-of-Things Applications (DITA). He was a principal investigator of an NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant on Middleware Framework and Programming Infrastructure for IoT Services. He was a principal investigator in the NSERC Strategic Research Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure (SAVI). In 2011 Dr. Müller’s research team won the IBM Canada CAS Research Project of the Year Award.

He teaches a 4th-year/graduate course on Quantum Algorithms and Software Engineering and a Quantum Software Engineering Bootcamp. He also teaches software engineering courses.

He was the founding Director of BSEng, a CEAB-accredited Bachelor of Software Engineering degree program in the Faculty of Engineering. He served on the Editorial Board of the Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP) and MDPI Journals Future Internet and Sensors. He served for 12 years on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).

Dr. Müller was Program Co-Chair of WF-IoT 2015 and 2018, the World Forum of Internet of Things. He was General Chair of ICSME 2014, the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance in Victoria. He was General Chair of SEAMS 2012, the 7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems in Zürich. He was General Chair for ICSE 2001, the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001) in Toronto.

Dr. Müller is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) and a Professional Engineer (PEng) registered with APEGBC. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering in 1979 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 1984 and 1986 from Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA.

Hausi enjoys singing, playing guitar, hiking, e-biking, and skiing.