Here's a few details about my career. For full details, see my CV.
Bio
- Quick bio:
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Dr. Tim Menzies (tim@menzies.us) has been working on advanced modeling and AI since 1986. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and is the author of 190 refereeed papers.
A former research chair for NASA, Dr. Menzies is now a associate professor at the West Virginia University's Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
For more information, visit his web page at http://menzies.us.
- Motto:
- Look, its much simpler than all that. Let me show you how.
- Over-educated:
- Ph.D. in AI and advanced modeling.
- Gets the grants:
- Has won $3.7M won in competitive grants since 2001.
- Widely-published:
- Author of 190 refereed papers
- Rocket scientist (retired):
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From 2006 to 2008, I was research liasion between WVU and the NASA software IV\&V team.
Previously (2002-2004), I was their Software Engineering Research Chair at a NASA software V&V center. That work earned me high praise from senior local and headquarters NASA civil servants:
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Tim has provided a great spark of innovation.
- Brian OConner (Headquarters)
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Dr. Menzies was an ideal fit in our NASA software assurance research environment. If he were to consider returning to WV, I would enthusiastically welcome him back to our staff.
- Nelson Keeler, NASA IV&V
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I would commend Dr. Menzies to any research group seeking to apply theoretical computer science principles to industrial or real world applications. Frankly, if we could get him to move to the LA area we would hire him in a nanosecond.
- Jairus Hihn, JPL
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Tim has provided a great spark of innovation.
- Works well with others:
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..the collaboration with Dr. Menzies is one of the most pleasurable and exciting of my 15-year research career.
- Julian Richardson, Microsoft Live Search
- Tim's in-depth understanding of SE and AI and machine learning always surprises and delights me.
- Martin Feather, JPL
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..the collaboration with Dr. Menzies is one of the most pleasurable and exciting of my 15-year research career.
Career
- Associate Professor: 1/06 to present:
- Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University. Teaching data mining and AI and agents and programming languages.
- Freelance software researcher: 1/04 to 12/05:
- Self-funded on grants. Worked on software quality assurance issues. Taught advanced software engineering at CS, Portland State University. Reason for leaving: the above tenure track job.
- Software Engineer Research Chair, NASA IV&V: 12/01 to 12/03
- NASA Verification and Validation Facility http://ivv.nasa.gov, Fairmont, West Virginia, USA. In that role, I monitored and assessed research projects and proposals and taught graduate software engineering. While in that role, I introduced research quality indicators for that program and doubled the funding allocated from NASA to West Virginia University. Reason for leaving: partners new job was across the country in Washington.
- Research assistant professor: 7/00 to 12/01:
- UBC, Vancouver, Canada. Taught undergraduate and graduate software engineering. Revised the SE teaching curriculum. Supervised a dozen masters and other student research assistants. Chaired the departmental computer committee (which entailed a total revision of the departments IT structure, staffing and resource policies). Reason for leaving: the above NASA job.
- Research Associate: 7/98 to 6/00:
- NASA/WVU Independent Verification and Validation Facility. Fairmont, West Virginia, USA. I was recruited to this position from Australia. In this position, I researched optimizations to testing for real-time systems and manage NASA Fairmonts research funds for outside research groups. Reason for leaving: uncertainty in continuation of soft money grants.
- Vice- Chancellors Research Fellow: 6/96 to 6/98:
- UNSW, Sydney, Australia. I was one of the 6 accepted from 170 candidates. Reason for leaving: the above NASA job.
- Commercial object-oriented and expert system consultant: 11/86 to 6/98:
- In that time I built applications and published research papers. The applications included process control, foreign exchange risk exposure management, consumer loan approval, debugging ART knowledge bases, and intelligent questionnaires, and farm management (this farm management application became Australia's first exported expert system). The publications explored logic programming techniques and practical knowledge representation tools. Reason for leaving: the above NASA job
- Lecturer, Software Development: 2/95 to 6/96:
- Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia. Reason for leaving: sought a more research-oriented environment. Hence, moved on to the above VC research fellows position.
- Ph.D.: 4/91-2/95:
- UNSW, Sydney, Australia
- Newspaper editor: 4/86 to 12/86 :
- Tharunka, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
- Undergraduate, Computer Science: 2/82 to 12/84:
- UNSW, Sydney, Australia
- General nursing: 1/79 to 2/82:
- Sydney, Australia
