Prem Devanbu

Salaam! I am on the Faculty of the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Davis. My research area is software engineering, particularly downstream activities: design, coding, and quality assurance.
See my academic vitae for a summary, and/or my research statement for more details. I also have a statement on my consulting work with Industry

Bicycle helmets are surely the ultimate fashion statement. They are also cheaper than Propecia , and they have only beneficial side effects, specially if you bicycle every day. I hardly ever take mine off. Nor do my kids.

Slightly out of date Publication list, with links to recent papers

If you're prospective foreign graduate student, please read this first!! . Even though that's advice written by a colleague at a different UC, the same issues apply to UC Davis. Then look at the bottom of this page.

Please send all adverts for prescription drugs, mortgages, investment opportunties, unnatural acts, etc., to this email address: prem_aint_here@cs.ucdavis.edu. Your messages will be automatically forwarded to the U.S. Government authorities in charge of controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail. My real address is given below in "gif" form; unfortunately your robots won't be able to read it.

Service: I am on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
I will be program co-chair for ICSE 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa , with Seb Uchitel. Please plan your submission, and a trip to Amazing Africa!
I was program chair for SIGSOFT 2006 . I also heelped out with MSR, APSEC, ISEC, OOPSLA Onward! and a few other things.

Stuff ( More Publications here)

Scalable, Flexible Peephole Pretty-Printing. Accepted to Science of Computer Programming Journal. Preprint available on request.
Recommender system based on callgraphs. Uses purely structural information. ( ESEC/FSE 2007 Paper ) Nominee, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper award
Immigration in Open Source projects. (MSR 2007 paper )
Aspect-oriented Layer Bypassing in Middleware ( AOSD 2007 Paper)
Finding defects in programs with embedded SQL Queries: The SQLChecker project ( ICSE 2004 paper). Winner, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper award.
Dynamically Negotiating QoS Features: The GlueQoS Project ( ICSE 2004 paper)
Text visualizations at interactive speeds: Peephole Pretty-Printing (Project page)
Distributed adaptations for distributed objects: The DADO project ( ICSE 2003 paper). Nominee, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award.
A serious threat to the free software movement, and a "modest" proposal to head it off.

Teaching & Advising

ECS 160, Undergraduate Software Engineering
ECS 260 Graduate Software Engineering (mostly about Software Reuse).
ECS 289 Graduate Seminar in Open Source Software Engineering
I'm very lucky to have some great graduate students.

Brief Bio

I started off in Industrial software development, first at Perkin-Elmer; then I worked at Bell Lab s, first in software development and then in research, at Murray Hill, NJ; with the big travestyture, I went to AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park. I have been at UC Davis since late 1997. My undergraduate education was at IIT, Madras in India; my doctoral work was done under Prof. Borgida at Rutgers University in the Garden State, which is a lovely place, actually; although the Golden State also has much to offer .

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Personal

My spouse, Roma Devanbu, is an artist and art educator whose work draws on different cultures, and explores the interplay between the spiritual and the temporal. .

In my abundant spare time, I worry a lot. About everything. e.g., work, about this guy, the environment, and my kids. Not necessarily in that order.

If you are a foreign student interested in pursuing graduate studies at UC Davis under my supervision, please a) look over my papers, see if my research interests you b) apply for the graduate program c) contact me when you're admitted. The bad news is that we accept few foreign students. The good news is that your chances are good if you're from a reputed institution in your country, or have publications in international conferences/journals, or have very good scores on your GREs. etc. If you email me, use the following text in the first line: "Blue bottles with red stoppers are found in orange boxes".