Name:Alessandro Orso

Bio:

Alessandro Orso is the Dean of the College of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Georgia. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1995) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Prior to joining UGA in 2025, he spent 25 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is now an Adjunct Professor. At Georgia Tech, he served as a Professor in the School of Computer Science and held leadership roles as Associate Dean and Interim Dean in the College of Computing. Dr. Orso’s research area is software engineering, with an emphasis on software testing and program analysis. His interests include the development of techniques and tools to improve software reliability, security, and trustworthiness, and the validation of such techniques on real-world systems. He has received research funding from government agencies such as DARPA, ONR, and NSF, as well as from industry leaders including Facebook, Fujitsu Labs, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. Dr. Orso has received several impact awards for his work, including two ISSTA Impact Paper Awards (2017 and 2021), two ASE Most Influential Paper Awards (2020 and 2025), and the IBM Haifa Verification Conference Award (2013). He has served on the editorial boards of ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE, and on the Advisory Board of Reflective Corp. He was program chair or co-chair for several major conferences, including ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA 2010, IEEE ICST 2013, ACM-SIGSOFT FSE 2014, and ACM-SIGSOFT/IEEE ICSE 2017. He also served as a technical consultant to DARPA. Dr. Orso is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and an IEEE Fellow.

Country:United States

Affiliation:University of Georgia, USA

Research interests:Software engineering, software testing, program analysis