Finding the right advisor is almost as important - and perhaps even more important - than finding the right research problem. In this talk I will discuss some of the strategies for developing a supportive and productive relationship with your research advisor. Bring your questions and your ideas!

Marsha Chechik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1996. Prof. Chechik’s research interests are in the application of formal methods to improve the quality of software. She has authored numerous papers in formal methods, software specification and verification, computer safety and security and requirements engineering. In 2002-2003, Prof. Chechik was a visiting scientist at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, NY and at Imperial College, London UK, and in 2013 – at Stonybrook University. She is a member of IFIP WG 2.9 on Requirements Engineering and an Associate Editor in Chief of Journal on Software and Systems Modeling. She is has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2003-2007, 2010-2013. She regularly serves on program committees of international conferences in the areas of software engineering and automated verification. Marsha Chechik has been Program Committee Co-Chair of the 2018 International Conference in Software Engineering (ICSE18), 2016 International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS’16), the 2016 Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE16), the 2014 International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’14), the 2008 International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR’08), the 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON’08), and the 2009 International Conference on Formal Aspects of Software Engineering (FASE’09). She will be PC Co-Chair of ESEC/FSE’2021. She is a Member of ACM SIGSOFT and the IEEE Computer Society.