secRetaRY/tReasuReR
(7/1/10 – 6/30/12)
carlo Ghezzi
chair of software engineering
department of electronics and information
Politecnico di milano
milano, italy
Biography
Carlo Ghezzi is a Professor and
Chair of Software Engineering at
Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is
the Rector’s Delegate for research,
past member of the Academic Senate and of the Board of Governors
of Politecnico. He has also been
Department Chair and Head of the
Ph. D. Program. He held positions
at University of California Los Angeles, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, University of Padova,
ESLAI-Buenos Aires, University of
California Santa Barbara, Technical
University of Vienna, University of
Klagenfurt, University of Lugano.
Ghezzi is an ACM Fellow, an
IEEE Fellow, and a member of the
Italian Academy of Sciences. He
was awarded the ACM SIGSOF T
Distinguished Service Award. He
has been a member of the ACM
Nominating Committee and of the
ACM Software Systems Award Committee. He has been on the evaluation board of several international
research projects and institutions
in Europe, Japan, and the USA.
Ghezzi is a regular member of
the program committee of important conferences in the software
engineering field, such as the International Conference on Software
Engineering and Foundations of
Software Engineering/ European
Software Engineering Conference,
for which he also served as Program
and General Chair.
He served on numerous other
program committees and gave several keynote presentations.
Ghezzi has been the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on
Software Engineering and Methodology (from 2001 till 2006) and is an
Associate Editor of Communications
of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, Science of
Computer Programming, Service Oriented Computing and Applications,
and Software Process Improvement
and Practice .
Ghezzi’s research has been
focusing on software engineering and programming languages.
Currently, he is active in evolvable
and distributed software architectures for ubiquitous and pervasive
computing. He co-authored over
160 papers and 8 books. He coordinated several national and international (EU funded) research projects. He has recently been awarded
a prestigious Advanced Grant from
the European Research Council.
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