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Who We Are Elaine Weyuker
Elaine Weyuker
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University Distinguished Professor, UCF
Elaine Weyuker is a University Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida. Until December 2020, she was also a Professor at Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden. Previously, Elaine was an AT&T Fellow and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs and Bell Labs, a Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, a Lecturer at the City University of New York, a Systems Engineer at IBM, and a programmer at Texaco, as well as having served as a consultant for several large international companies.
Her research expertise includes techniques and tools to improve the quality of software systems through systematic validation activities, including the development of testing, assessment and software fault prediction models. Prior to that, Elaine did research in Theory of Computation and is the co-author of a book "Computability, Complexity, and Languages". She has authored many technical papers in these fields.
Professor Weyuker is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards including IEEE's Harlan Mills Award for outstanding software engineering research, and the ACM/SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. She was the recipient of the United States President's Volunteer Service Award, the ACM President's Award, the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, Rutgers University 50th Anniversary Outstanding Alumni Award, the Binghamton University Outstanding Alumni Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award, and the AT&T Chairman's Diversity Award as well has having been named a Woman of Achievement by the YWCA.
She was the chair of the ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) from 2004 - 2012 and continues her active participation in ACM-W. She has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, has served on many National Academy panels, was a board member of the Computing Research Association, a member of the ACM Council, a member of the ACM/SIGSOFT Executive Board, as well as being an editor of several technical journals.
She received a BA degree in Mathematics from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, a Masters of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University. Professor Weyuker is a firm believer in the transformational power of education and the critical (pivotal) role that public institutions play.
Her research expertise includes techniques and tools to improve the quality of software systems through systematic validation activities, including the development of testing, assessment and software fault prediction models. Prior to that, Elaine did research in Theory of Computation and is the co-author of a book "Computability, Complexity, and Languages". She has authored many technical papers in these fields.
Professor Weyuker is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards including IEEE's Harlan Mills Award for outstanding software engineering research, and the ACM/SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. She was the recipient of the United States President's Volunteer Service Award, the ACM President's Award, the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, Rutgers University 50th Anniversary Outstanding Alumni Award, the Binghamton University Outstanding Alumni Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award, and the AT&T Chairman's Diversity Award as well has having been named a Woman of Achievement by the YWCA.
She was the chair of the ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) from 2004 - 2012 and continues her active participation in ACM-W. She has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, has served on many National Academy panels, was a board member of the Computing Research Association, a member of the ACM Council, a member of the ACM/SIGSOFT Executive Board, as well as being an editor of several technical journals.
She received a BA degree in Mathematics from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, a Masters of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University. Professor Weyuker is a firm believer in the transformational power of education and the critical (pivotal) role that public institutions play.