Carlo Ghezzi is a professor and chair of software engineering at the

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

, Italy and an adjunct professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. At the Politecnico, he is the Rector's Delegate for research; he has been department chair, head of the PhD program, member of the academic senate and of the board of governors of Politecnico.

Education and academic career

He received his Dr.Eng. degree in

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from the Politecnico di Milano, where he spent most of his professional life, as assistant, associate, and

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. He also taught and did research in other institutions:

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, US (1976),

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, USA (1979–80),

Università degli Studi di Padova The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

, Italy (1980–81),

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, Argentina (1990),

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

, US (1991),

Technical University of Vienna TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

, Austria (1996), and

University of Klagenfurt The University of Klagenfurt (german: Universität Klagenfurt or ''Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt'', AAU) is a federal Austrian research university and the largest research and higher education institution in the state of Carinthia. It has it ...

, Austria (1996). Ghezzi is a 1999

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fellow (citation: "Numerous research contributions from compiler theory to real-time systems to software processes. A strong contributor to the software engineering community in Europe and worldwide.") and 2006

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(citation: "for contributions to programming languages and software engineering"). In 2006, he was awarded the

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Distinguished Service Award. He is a Member of

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Professional service

He is a regular member of the program committee of important conferences of the

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field, such as the

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(ICSE) and the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) conference, jointly held in conjunction with the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC). He has been chairing such conferences as program co-chair (ICSE 1991), program chair (ESEC/FSE '99), general chair
ICSE 2000
, and general co-chair (

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ICSOC 2006
. He has been a keynote speaker at several conferences, including ESEC 1993, the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1997), the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software
ETAPS 2006

ICSE 2009
the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
ICECCS 2010
, the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
SEFM 2010
, the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
ESEM 2010
, ServiceWave
ServiceWave 2010
, and Fundamentals of Software Engineering
FSEN 2011
. He has been

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of
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
' (2001–2006) and associate editor of ''

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''. He is currently an associate editor of
Science of Computer Programming
' (

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),
Service Oriented Computing and Applications
' (

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), and
Software Process Improvement and Practice
' (

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Research

His research has been constantly focused on different facets of

and

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. Currently, he is active in the area of

software architecture Software architecture is the fundamental structure of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations. ...

s, especially evolvable and distributed software architectures for ubiquitous and pervasive computer applications. His long-term goal has been to contribute to making software more and more dependable, basing it on solid and rigorous methodological and theoretical foundations. Ghezzi has co-authored over 180 papers, almost all of which are published internationally. His papers appeared on prestigious journals like the ''

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'', ''Information and Control'' (now ''

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''),
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
',
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
', ''

''. He is the co-author of 8 books, including: * ''Programming Language Concepts''. With M. Jazayeri. (First edition:

, 1982; . Second edition:

, 1987; . Third edition:

, 1998; ) * ''Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science''. With D. Mandrioli. (

, 1987; ) * ''Fundamentals of Software Engineering''. With M. Jazayeri and D. Mandrioli. (First edition:

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, 1991; . Second edition:

, 2003; ) In 2008, he has been awarded an
Advanced Investigators Grant
' from the

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

, funding th
SMSCOM
project.

References

External links

Personal web site

on

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ICSE 2009 keynote slides and discussion
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