Mehdi Jazayeri
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Mehdi Jazayeri is the founding dean of the faculty of informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana
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 (University of Lugano) in Lugano
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, Switzerland
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, and author of several textbooks on computer software.

Jazayeri received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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 in 1971, MS in Computer Engineering (1973) and PhD
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 in Computer Science (1975) from Case Western Reserve University
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 in Cleveland, Ohio
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. The faculty of informatics in Lugano was established in 2004 with bachelor, master, and PhD programs in computer science. There are currently around 150 students, faculty and researchers at the faculty. Mehdi Jazayeri was an assistant professor of computer science at the Computer Science Department of the University of North Carolina
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 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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 from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1984 he worked at several Silicon Valley
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 start-up companies. From 1984 to 1994, he was a researcher at the Hewlett-Packard
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 Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, California
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. In 1994, he moved to Vienna
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 as professor of computer science at the Technical University of Vienna, where he led a group of researchers at the Distributed Systems Group. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2007.

Jazayeri has been a keynote presenter at several conferences, including Automated Software Engineering 2004, IWPSE 2005: International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, and Software Engineering 06, and has acted as session chair at conferences such as the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, in May 2005.

Books by Mehdi Jazayeri

  • Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age (Springer Verlag, 2007)
  • Fundamentals of Software Engineering (Prentice Hall
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    , 1991, 2002
  • Programming Language Concepts (John Wiley
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    , 1982, 1987, 1998)
  • Software Architecture for Product Families: Principles and Practice (Addison-Wesley
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    , 2000)
  • The Proceedings of an International Seminar on Generic Programming (Springer Verlag, 2000)
  • Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995)

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