Education

University of Newcastle, 1978-1980 Newcastle, Australia Ph. D. (Mathematics)

Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 1977-1978 Haifa, Israel M. Sc. (Mathematics)

Monash University, (1971-1976) Melbourne, Australia B. Sc. (Hons 1). (Mathematics)

State College of Victoria at Hawthorn (1975) Melbourne , Australia Dip. Ed. (Mathematics and Science)

Professional experience

February 2011 - present: Senior Researcher in Integration Technologies at IBM Research Israel. I lead the technical and research efforts on long term privacy aware data preservation in the context of the European FP7 project ENSURE.

July 2008 - January 2011: Service Science Focal Point for the IBM India Research Laboratory, Research Relationship Manager with IBM Global Business Services Centre. At the Bangalore Lab I lead projects in service science, service engineering, and related areas. I am also responsible for developing IBM India’s program of research in the European FP7 research in ICT, and creating collaboratory relationships with Indian Universities.

2004 - June2008: Manager of the Model Driven Engineering Technologies group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, and core management team member of the MODELPLEX project for the creation of methodologies, infrastructure and tools for model based software engineering. I was responsible for the technical and personnel management of a large research team. In the MODELPLEX project I lead a technical work package involving eleven industrial and academic partner organizations with a total headcount of approximately 20 people in addition to my management responsibilities at IBM. The MODELPLEX project is a continuation of the previous MODELWARE project.

2000-2003: Senior research staff member at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, and coordinator of the AGEDIS research project. At the Haifa lab I lead the development and deployment of model based testing tools in IBM worldwide. As coordinator of the AGEDIS project I lead the technical and administrative development of a methodology and tools for automated test generation and execution of distributed software. The AGEDIS consortium comprised seven European industrial and academic partners.

1998-1999: Lead developer at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory of the software testing tools team, with the goal of moving hardware testing technologies to the software testing domain.

1997: Consultant in Communications Network Design and Software Engineering at Telstra Research Laboratories ( Melbourne , Australia ).

1994-1996: Manager of the Algorithms and Optimization group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, creating advanced tools for the solution of industrial problems and communications network design. I was responsible for both the technical and personnel management of a team of approximately twelve researchers.

1989-1993: Lead developer and research lead at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory in the development of the IBM product NETDA/2, an OS/2 graphical tool for the design of SNA and APPN communications networks.

1988: Visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Mathematics ( Canada ) and worked as a consultant on database infrastructure issues to IBM Canada Ltd.

1983-1987: Research staff member at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, working on simulation of DASD/IO devices using microcode in the disk controller.

1981-1982: Post doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization ( Waterloo , Canada ).

Professional memberships

Foundation Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (1990-present)

Member of the ACM (2007-present)

Senior member of IEEE (2007-present)

Founding member of the India Chapter of Services Research and Innovation Institute (SRII) (2009-present)

Editorial responsibilites

Editorial Board Member of the Journal for Software and System Modeling (2006- present)

Editorial Board Member of Software Testing Verification and Reliability (2007-present)

Conference Organization

Industry Track Co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, 2011 

Program Co-chair of the First International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets 2010

Program Co-chair of European Conference on Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications 2005, 2008, 2009, Local organization chair 2007.