Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang, Assistant Professor, DePaul University

Dr. Cleland-Huang recently co-authored the book “Software by Numbers, low-risk, high-return development”, which describes a financially informed approach to software development. She has spoken at a wide variety of industrial events including the Motorola Software Symposium, Chicago Institute of Software Engineering, Minnesota’s Object Technology Users’ Group, and has taught tutorials on requirements prioritization at both the Requirements Engineering Conference and the International Conference on Software Engineering.

Dr. Raffaella Settimi, Assistant Professor, DePaul University

Raffaella Settimi joined the School of CTI in 2001. Before coming to DePaul University, she was a visiting assistant professor at the department of statistics of the University of Chicago, and held research positions at the University of Warwick (UK) and at the City University in London.

Her main research interests are in probabilistic learning, Bayesian data analysis and probabilistic methods in information retrieval. She currently is a co-investigator in a NSF-funded research project on dynamic retrieval of requirement traces.

Dr. Settimi earned her doctorate in statistics from the University of Perugia in Italy in 1995 and an M.Sc in statistics from the University of Sheffield (UK). Her undergraduate degree in mathematics is from the University of Perugia.
 

Dr. Michael Fries, Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University

David Schmelzer, Bank One Corporation

Mark Denne, Sun Microsystems