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Biography
Mary Lou Soffa received her B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and her Ph.D. in
Computer Science. From 1977 to 2004, she was a Professor of Computer Science at
the University of Pittsburgh and served as the Dean of Graduate Studies in the
College of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 1996. In 2004, she moved to the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where is the Owen
T. Cheatham Professor and Department Chair of the Computer Science Department.
She received the Nico Habermann Award in 2006 for outstanding contributions
toward increasing the numbers and successes of underrepresented members in the
computing research community. In 1999, she received the Whitehouse’s
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering
Mentoring. She was elected an ACM Fellow in 1999 and selected as a Girl Scout
Woman of Distinction in 2003. She served for ten years on the Board of the
Computing Research Association (CRA) and continues as a member of CRA-W, the
committee on the status of women in computer science and engineering of the CRA.
She has served on the Executive Committees of both ACM SIGSOFT and SIGPLAN as
well as conference chair, program chair or program committee member of many
conferences. Currently, she is the program Conference Chair for the Code
Generation and Optimization Conference (CGO). She has been a distinguished
speaker at a number of conferences and universities including the Fifth
International Conference on Quality Software, Compiler Construction Conference,
Static Analysis Symposium, University of Illinois, the University of Maryland,
Notre Dame, Stony Brook, and the University of Michigan.
Her research interests include software tools for debugging and testing
programs, compilers, optimizations and program analysis. She has published over
140 papers in journals and conferences. Her papers have received a number of
best paper awards as well a designation of one of the 40 most influential papers
in 20 years to appear in the Programming Language Design and Implementation
Conference. She has directed 25 Ph.D. students to completion, half of whom are
women. Her former Ph.D. students are professors in major universities including
the University of California at Berkeley, Georgia Tech, the University of
Maryland, the University of Arizona and the University of Delaware.
Dr. Mary Lou Soffa received a Phoenix and SSCLI award in 2006 for her project
Developing a Testing Framework for Security. Most recently, she received a
Phoenix Direct Funding award for her research project Software Testing for
Security Vulnerabilities. Read about Dr. Soffa’s research by selecting a project
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