Jeffrey
Kramer
Professor Jeff Kramer is Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College. He was Head of
Department from 1999 to 2004. He was a principal investigator in the
various research projects which led to the development of the Darwin
architectural description language which is used in commercialised form
by Philips for the software for high end television sets. His current
research work is on behaviour analysis, the use of models in
requirements elaboration and architectural approaches to self-managed
software systems. Jeff Kramer is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the
IEE and Fellow of the ACM. He was program co-chair of the 21st ICSE
(International Conference on Software Engineering) in Los Angeles in
1999, Chair of the Steering Committee for ICSE from 2000 to 2002,
associate editor and member of the editorial board of ACM TOSEM from
1995 to 2001 and is currently editor-in-Chief of the editorial board of
IEEE TSE. He was awarded the IEEE Informatics Premium prize for 1998/99 for a paper
on Software Architecture, was winner of the Most Influential Paper
Award at ICSE 2003, and was awarded the 2005 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding
Research Award for significant and lasting research contributions to
Software Engineering. He is co-author of a recent book on Concurrency,
co-author of a previous book on Distributed Systems and Computer
Networks, and the author of over 150 journal and conference
publications.
