Name:Paul Ralph

Bio:

Dr. D. Paul Ralph (PhD, British Columbia) is an award-winning scientist, author, consultant, and computer science professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His cutting-edge research at the intersection of software engineering, human-computer interaction, and project management investigates how to improve the environmental, social, economic, and technical sustainability of software systems and software development. Dr. Ralph’s research has been published in over 100 peer-reviewed articles in premier venues including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and used by leading companies including Adobe, Amazon, AT&T, Broadcom, Canon, IBM, Google, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, PayPal, Samsung, Salesforce, Yahoo!, and Walmart. He is editor-in-chief of the Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research and author of the landmark book, Sustainable Dual-Track Development. Dr. Ralph has received funding from The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Mitacs, and Google.

Country:Canada

Affiliation:Dalhousie University

Research interests:software engineering, research methods, software project management, human-computer interaction