Hausi A. Müller (born August 11, 1955 in Egg, Switzerland) is a Canadian

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and

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. He is a professor of

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at the

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, Canada and a Fellow of the

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. He is known for his work in the fields of

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and adaptive systems. He was the lead architect of

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, an end-user programmable environment for software analysis, exploration, and visualization. He was General Chair of the ACM/IEEE

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(ICSE 2001) in

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. He serves on the

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Board of Governors (2015–17) and is Vice President of IEEE Computer Society Technical and Conferences Activities Board. He was Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) 2010-15. Together with Kenny Wong he has provided an efficient implementation of

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Awards and honors

Golden Core Member, 2016 * Distinguished Service Award,

Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE), 2016 * Fellow

(FCAE), 2012 * Team Award: IBM Canada Project of the Year Award, IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Markham, Ontario, Canada, 2011 * IBM CAS Research Special Contributions Award, 2010

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* at the University of Victoria
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