Dr. David Redmiles is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS). He is also a member of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at UCI. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined UCI in 1994 and became Professor Emeritus in 2024. His research integrates the areas of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work. Over the years, his research group has investigated themes of cognitive support for software developers; issues of trust and emotion affecting software teams; behaviors of participants in social software development platforms; global software engineering; end-user software development; and more. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He was designated an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011 and a Fellow of Automated Software Engineering in 2009. From 2004 to 2011, he chaired the Department of Informatics at UCI and, from 2017 to 2023, he served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in ICS. He was General Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), Papers Co-Chair of the 2013 International Conference on End User Development (IS-EUD), and General Chair of the 2005 IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering.