Dr. Cécile Péraire

Biography

Cécile Péraire has 25 years of experience in software engineering, straddling both industry and academia. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at SRI International, working with Hewlett Packard. Throughout her career, she has held positions at Rational and IBM, where she contributed significantly to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and developed IBM's internal methods. Currently, she serves as an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Péraire is the recipient of the CMU College of Engineering Dean’s Early Career Fellowship Award and the Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award for her contributions to the development of ECE’s Software Engineering Master program, which is uniquely distinctive in Silicon Valley. She has published and taught extensively in her areas of specialization, with a strong passion for innovating practices and tools that enable teams to effectively develop and deliver software-intensive systems. Over her career, Péraire has taught 16 undergraduate and graduate courses, contributing to course design, including those she currently teaches at CMU, such as Foundations of Software Engineering, Software Requirements, and Interaction Design.

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