Nenad Medvidović

Nenad Medvidović is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and in the Informatics Program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the Founding Director of the SoftArch Laboratory at USC. He has previously served as Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering and as Associate Chair for Ph.D. Affairs in USC's CS Department. Medvidović is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), and Chair of the Steering Committees for the International Conference on Software Engineering and the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. He was the Program Co-Chair of ICSE 2011. Medvidović’s research interests are in the area of architecture-based software development. Several of his papers have won "Most Influential" and "Best Paper" awards at conferences, and "Most Cited" recognitions from journals. He is a co-author of a textbook on software architectures. Medvidović is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow.