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Hakan Erdogmus is a Teaching Professor in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, he worked as an independent consultant in Ottawa, Canada, focusing on software engineering methods, engineering economics, process improvement, and software quality measurement. He held the position of senior research officer in the Software Engineering Group at the Canadian National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology from January 1995 to June 2009. Erdogmus has extensively published and presented on these subjects and is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. He has previously served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Software. Erdogmus has received several academic accolades, including the Eugene L. Grant Award from the American Society for Engineering Education in 2003 and Dean's Early Career Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon in 2016. He has a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from INRS-Université du Québec, a Master’s in Computer Science from McGill University, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University. Additionally, he is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Canadian National Research Council • Ottawa, Canada
Worked in the Software Engineering Group, focusing on software engineering methods and quality.
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