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• Invited to program committee : ISSRE'13
• New conference paper: MSR'13 : Better Cross Company Defect Prediction, with Fayola Peters and Andrian...
• Invited to program committee : ICSE'14 demo track
• New workshop paper: ICSE'13: Modelling+SBSE : Optimum Feature Selection in Software Product Lines: Let Your Model...
• New paper, IEEE Software : May/June 2013: Beyond Data Mining
• New journal paper, accepted to Journal of Systems and Software : Software Effort Models Should be Assessed Via Leave-One-Out Validation
• Invited talk, University College, London : Over the horizon: ML + SBSE = What?
• New TSE article, in pre-print : Balancing Privacy and Utility in Cross-Company Defect Prediction
• New TSE article, in pre-print : Active Learning and Effort Estimation: Finding the Essential Content of...
• Since 2011, 6 articles in IEEE Trans on SE : Active Learning and Effort Estimation: Finding the Essential Content of...
• New ICSE'13 conference paper : Distributed Development Considered Harmful, ICSE 2013,...
• Invite to program committee : ICSE'14.
• 2 technical briefs accepted to ICSE'13 : "Data Science for Software Engineering". With Ekrem Kocaguneli, Burak...
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 About me

• Full Professor : Lane Department of Computer Science, WVU, WV. I teach data mining, agents, programming languages & artificial intelligence.
• In the most cited SE papers since 2007, my work appears #11 in all of SE and #7 in effort estimation.
• I'm ranked in the top 50 of international SE community (amongst 54,000+ researchers) since 2007.
• I have G and H indexes of 33 and 22.
• Member, editorial boards : IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering; Automated Software Engineering; Empirical Software Engineering; Journal of Visual Languages & Computing.
• Program committees : Steering committee member: Ase'13, Raise'13. PC member: Ase'13; Cmsbse'13; Dapse'13; Esem'13; Gtse'13 Icse'13-demos; Icse'14; Promise'13; Raise'13.
• Students : Current: 4*phd + 3*masters. Completed: 5*phd + 22*masters; (only counted if I am commitee chair).
• Recent papers : journal: JSS, IST, TSE*3; conference: ICSE'13*3, PROMISE'12, ICSE'12, PKAW'12
• All papers : 53 journal publications, 188 others including 97 at major international conferences.
• Grants, current(2010) : Nsf: $500K + $20K; Qatar NRF: $200K; NIH: $30K.
• Grants, all : Nasa:$2,000K; National archives:$1,400K; Nsf:$860K; Dod.sttr:$300K; Qatar NRF:$200K; Wvu forensics:$110K; TOTAL:$5,021K

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