Hadar Ziv

Hadar Ziv is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Informatics Department at the Donald School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in software engineering, Agile and SCRUM methodologies, privacy and security, and computer science and software engineering education. He has many years experience in both computer-science education and practical software development. He has worked as consultant for several organizations wishing to include use cases, requirements engineering, object-oriented analysis and design with UML, and corresponding test strategies in their software-development practices.

Professor Ziv teaches the Capstone software-project class for Informatics seniors, where students employ many of the same tools and methods to develop web-based and mobile applications for real customers. He was awarded UC Irvine’s Excellence in Teaching award in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from UC Irvine.