Alfred W. Strohmeier

Education:

• M.S. in Mathematics, University of Paris, 1969
• DEA in statistics and operations research, University of Paris, 1970
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Paris, 1971

Languages: German, French, English, some Italian

Career Background:

• 1970 - 1972, research assistant, University of Paris.
• 1972 - 1982, professor in Operations Research and Computer Science, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
• Since 1982, professor in Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland).
• 1987 - 1989, head of the Computer Science Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland).
• 1990 - 1991, visiting professor at Stanford University, research fellow at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Software Laboratory.
• 1998 - 1999, visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
• 1999, research fellow at The George Washington University, Washingtion DC.

Distinctions:

• 1992 - 1995, Distinguished Reviewer of the Ada language revision.
• 1993 - 1996, Associate Professor of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.
• 2001, Recipient of the "Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award", SIGAda of the ACM.

Current interests: Software Engineering; Software Development Methodologies, especially object-oriented approaches; Software Engineering Environments; Ada language related technologies, including software components and bindings.

Publications:

See the WEB site of the Software Engineering Lab, please: http://lgl.epfl.ch/bibliographies/bibliographies.html

Memberships in professional organizations:

• ACM (since 1980);
• IEEE CS (since 1982);
• Swiss Informaticians Society (since foundation);
• Ada-Europe (since 1984);
• Ada in Switzerland (since foundation in 1988).

Some National and International Activities:

• Chair of SARIT, the Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology, since 2002.
  
• Member of “SICTA Kommission 5, F & E, Aus- und Weiterbildung”, since its inception in 2002.
  
• Swiss representative to the IFIP Technical Committee TC2: Software: Theory and Practice, since 2000.
• Swiss representative to ISO JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9, the ISO Ada language WG.
• Officer of the board of Ada-Europe, 1994 - 2002.
• Officer of the board of Ada in Switzerland, since November 1999.
• Member of the Jury of the ABB prize.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI)", AFCET/HERMES, Paris, 1992 - 1999.
• Editor of the Computer Science Series published by Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 1991 - 1996.
• Chair of "Assemblée d'Ecole de l'EPFL", 1992 - 1996.
• Representative of the "Assemblée d'Ecole de l'EPFL" to the "Conseil des Ecoles polytechniques fédérales", 1993 - 1996.
• Representative of the EPFL to CICUS (Commission Informatique de la Conférence Universitaire Suisse), 1991 - 1995.

Conference Committees, 2003:

• Program Co-Chair of the 8th Int. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2003, June 16 - 20, 2003, Toulouse, France.

Conference Committees, 2002:

• Member of the Program Committee of the <<U M L>> 2002 Conference, September 30 - October 4, 2002 Dresden, Germany.
• Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems (EDCIS 2002), September 18-20, 2002, Beijing, China.
• Program Co-Chair of the 7th Int. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2002, June 17 - 21, 2002, Vienna, Austria.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling with UML, April 22, 2002, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Conference Committees, 2001:

• Member of the Program Committee and "Impulsgeber" of the Conference SoftwareTrends.ch, Open Space Symposium for Business, Education and Research, Sept 20-22, 2001, Gersau, Switzerland.
• Program Co-Chair of the 6th Int. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2001, May 14 - 18, 2001, Leuven, Belgium.
• Co-Chair of the Workshop on Exception Handling for a 21st Century Programming Language, May 14, 2001, Leuven, Belgium.
• Member of the Program Committee of the <<UML>> 2001 Conference, October 1 - 5, 2001, Toronto, Canada.
• Member of the Program Committee of the conference SIGAda 2001 - ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference, September 30 - October 4, 2001, Twin Cities, Minnesota.

Conference Committees, 2000:

• Member of the Program Committee of the 5th Int. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2000, June 26 - 30, 2000, Potsdam/Berlin.
• Member of the Program Committee of JMLC 2000 - Joint Modular Languages Conference, 6th - 8th September 2000, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Int. Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects (EDO 2000), November 2-3, 2000, University of California, Davis, USA.

Conference Committees, 1999:

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of AIHENP'99: Sixth International Workshop on New Computing Techniques in Physics Research; University of Crete, Greece, April 12-16, 1999.
• Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference "Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'98", June 7-11, 1999, Santander, Spain.
• Member of the Program Committee of the SIGAda'99 Annual International Conference
  Oct 17-21, 1999, Redondo Beach, CA.

Conference Committees, 1998:

• Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Comparing Systems Specification Techniques, March 26-27, 1998, Nantes, France.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Conference "Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'98", June 8-12, 1998, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Member of the Program Committee of "SIGAda'98", November 8-12, 1998, Washington, DC, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee of "Third IEEE Real-Time Systems Education Workshop", November 21, 1998, Poznan, Poland.

Conference Committees, 1997:

• Member of the Program Committee of "Joint Modular Languages Conference" (JMLC), March 19-21, 1997, Linz, Austria.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Conference "Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'97", June 2-6, 1997, London, England.
• Member of the Program Committee of "TRI-Ada'97", November 9-13, 1997, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Conference Committees, 1996:

• General Chair and Program Committee Chair of the Conference "Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'96", June 10 - 14, 1996, Montreux, Switzerland.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of AIHENP'96: Fifth International Workshop on New Computing Techniques in Physics Research; EPFL-UNIL Lausanne (Switzerland); 2 - 6 September, 1996.
• Member of the Programme Committee of "TRI-Ada'96", Philadelphia, USA, 3-7 december 1996.
• Membre du comité de programme du congrès "Le Génie logiciel et ses applications", Paris, 18-21 novembre 1996.

Conference Committees, 1995:

• Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the conference Software Quality Management SQM 95, Seville, Spain, April 3-5, 1995.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Joint Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Santa Barbara, California, April 24-26, 1995.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Ada-Europe Conference 1995, October 2-6, 1995, Francfurt.