Michael W. Godfrey @ UWaterloo

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

Awards and honours

• Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE
• David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellow, Univ. of Waterloo, 2014-2017
• NSERC Assoc. Industrial Research Chair (Nortel Networks), 2001-2006
• Best/Distinguished Paper Awards: WCRE 2006, WCRE 2011, WCRE 2013
• Most Influential Paper Award: SANER 2016 (for the WCRE 2006 paper)
• Distinguished Reviewer Awards: ICSME 2019, 2020

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  • I am also a member of the SE and PLG research groups, but those websites are painfully out-of date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
• My Google Scholar page

• CS846 — Topics in Software Evolution and Empirical Studies
  I am teaching this course in Winter 2025
  See this video for an overview of what to expect
• CS138 — Introduction to Data Abstraction and Implementation
  I am teaching this course in Winter 2025
  Course designer/co-ordinator since 2009
• CS246 — Software Abstraction and Specification
  I am teaching this course in Fall 2024
  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)

Upcoming conferences etc. I'm on the Program Committee for (or have some other interesting role)

Conferences I was on the Program Committee for, but are now over

• I'm on the program committee of ICSME 2024 Doctoral Symposium
• I'm General Chair for the 33rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2025), to be held in April 2025 in Ottawa.
• I sit / have sat / did sit on the following steering committees:
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2007-2010, 2017-2020 (SC chair 2017-2019)
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2012–2015
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2009-2015
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) 2007–2010
  • Intl. Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN), 2014–??
  • Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATToSE) 2012–2017

• ICSE: 2021 (posters), 2020 (tutorials), 2019 (main track), 2015, 2013, 2010 (NIER track), 2001 (OC)
• ICSME (formerly ICSM): 2021, 2019 (also J1C2 track co-chair), 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011 (also DC, again), 2010 (also TC), 2008, 2007, 2006 (also DC)
• ICPC: 2023, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012 (PC), 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• MSR: 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 (PC), 2008 (PC), 2007, 2006
• SCAM: 2017, 2015 (GC), 2014, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (PC), 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
• SANER (formerly CSMR): 2018, 2017, 2016 (DC), 2015, 2008, 2005, 2004
• WCRE (merged with SANER in 2015): 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• IWSC: 2018, 2017 (PC), 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
• VoSE: 2019
• ateM (now called SLE): 2007, 2006, 2004 (CO), 2003 (CO)
• IWPSE: 2015, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003 (PC), 2002
• CASCON: 2009, 2008, 2006
• ECASE: 2019, 2017
• ITSLE track at OOPSLA: 2016
• EOSESE: 2015
• DAPSE: 2013
• RelEng: 2013
• MODELS educators' symposium: 2011
• 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, GC = General chair, CO = Co-organizer, OC = Org. committe, TC = Tutorials chair, DC = PhD dissertation/symposium co-chair

Service and external relations

Trivia

• Since August 2016, I have chaired the CS Undergraduate Recruiting Committee (UGREC) on and off (currently, "off")
  
• From July 2013 to July 2015, I was 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)
• I have served on the Software Engineering Curriculum Committee 2009-11, 2012-13, 2022-23
  

• My Erdos number is no worse than 3 (Gauss is a 4)
  • Erdos → Jeff Shallit → Andrew Malton → Me
  
  
• Anagrams of "Michael Godfrey":
  • Feel my dog chair! [thx MCB]
  • 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.