Michael W. Godfrey @ UWaterloo

[Contact information is at the bottom of the page.]

Research

Teaching

• Papers and a few talks
• SWAG: Our research group
  • I am also a member of the SE and PLG research groups, but those websites are painfully out-of date
• Graduate supervision
• My little UML page
• Kent Beck's advice on paper writing

• CS846 — Topics in Software Evolution and Empirical Studies
  I am teaching this course in Winter 2013
• CS138 — Introduction to Data Abstraction and Implementation
  I am teaching this course in Winter 2013
  Course designer/co-ordinator since 2009
• CS246 — Software Abstraction and Specification
  I last taught this course in Fall 2012.
  Course co-ordinator 2000-2004
• CS445 — Software Requirements and Specification
  (aka SE463 / CS645 / ECE451)
  I last taught this course in Fall 2010
• JDuck (old but it was fun)

Conferences etc. I'm on the PC for
(or have some other interesting role)

Conferences I was on the PC for, but are now over

• The New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ICSE 2013, to be held in San Francisco 22-24 May 2013.
• 10th IEEE/ACM Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-13) to be held in San Francisco 18-19 May 2013, co-located with ICSE-13.
• 1st Intl. Workshop on Release Engineering (RelEng 2013), to be held in San Francisco 20 May 2013, co-located with ICSE-13.
• 1st Intl. Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE-13), to be held in San Francisco 21 May 2013, co-located with ICSE-13.
• 29th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM-13), to be held 22-28 September 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• I've been on the editorial board of Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (formerly Software Maintenance and Evolution: Practice and Experience) since 2010
• I sit or have sat on the following steering committees:
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) 2012-present
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2009-present
  • Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATToSE) 2012-present
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) 2007-2010
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2007-2010

• ICSM: 2011 (also DC, again), 2010 (also TC), 2008, 2007, 2006 (also DC)
• ICPC: 2012 (PC), 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• MSR: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 (PC), 2008 (PC), 2007, 2006
• SCAM: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (PC), 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
• WCRE: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• CSMR: 2008, 2005, 2004
• IWSC: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
• MODELS educators' symposium: 2011
• ICSE: 2010 (NIER track), 2001 (OC)
• ateM (now called SLE): 2007, 2006, 2004 (CO), 2003 (CO)
• IWPSE: 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003 (PC), 2002
• CASCON: 2009, 2008, 2006
• RSSE: 2010, 2008
• QTAP: 2008 (CO)
• LATE: 2008, 2007
• ETX: 2007
• Evol: 2008, 2007
• FLOSS: 2007
• SEAMS: 2007
• ASE: 2006
• ELISA: 2003 (CO)
• CoSET: 2000

PC = Program co-chair, CO = Co-organizer, OC = Org. committee
TC = Tutorials chair, DC = PhD dissertation co-chair

Service and external relations

Trivia

• As of July 2013, I am the SCS Director of Student Engagement.
• Between 2006 and 2011 I served on the SCS Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee (UAPC, formerly known as the Curriculum Committee).
• Between 2009 and 2011, and for the 2012-13 academic year I served on the Software Engineering Curruculum Committee.

• My Erdos number is no worse than 3 (Gauss is a 4)
  • Erdos → Jeff Shallit → Andrew Malton → Me
  
  
• Anagrams of "Michael Godfrey":
  • Fierce, godly ham.
  • Chiefly, mad ogre.
  • Hey! decimal frog.
  • Grey, modal chief.
    

During the 2011-12 academic year, I was on sabbatical at CWI in Amsterdam, with the RASCAL group (aka SEN-1, aka SWAT), led by Jurgen Vinju and Paul Klint. I learned a lot about programming, practical language design, DSLs, and the sheer joy of building something that works. I really enjoyed my time there, and the great people I got to work with, including Mark Hills, Davy Landman, Atze van der Ploeg, Tijs van der Storm, Jeroen van den Bos, Anastasia Izmaylova, and Vadim Zaytsev.

During the 2003-04 academic year, I was on sabbatical at Sun Microsystems Research Lab in Mountain View, CA. I worked on two research projects involving static analysis tools, Jackpot and Salsa, and I got to work with a number of really sharp tool developers, including Michael Van De Vanter, Tom Ball, Tim Prinzing, and James Gosling (all Jackpot), as well as John Crupi, Deepak Alur, Yury Kamen, and Syed Ali (all Salsa).

I was a faculty member at Cornell University between 1996 and 1998; I taught the software engineering course and some others, and I was the associate director of their M.Eng. program. I also did some work with the Predator / Jaguar object-relational database project, which led to a paper at SIGMOD-98. Before that, I was a graduate student and occasional full-time lecturer at the University of Toronto.