Frank Tip is a Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Northeastern University. Previously, he was a Senior Principal Engineer at Samsung Research America in Mountain View, California (2014-2016), a Professor and Cheriton Research Chair in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (2012-2014), and a Research Staff Member and Manager at the Software Technology Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1995-2012). He received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Amsterdam.