Dr. Tim Menzies is an associate professor in the Lane Department
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia
University.  He is the author of 170 refereed papers (see http://menzies.us/papers.php).
Dr. Menzies has a long background in practical
applications of advanced software research. For the last 15 years,
he has worked as a software engineering consultant on object-oriented
systems. Since 1998, Dr. Menzies has been consulting with NASA on
learning methods for improving the testability of early life-cycle
requirements.  In the period 2001-2002, he was the software
engineering research chair at the NASA
IV\&V Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia.
Currently, his is the liaison between NASA IV\&V and West
Virginia University.
He is also currently on the Editorial Board
for the Empirical Software Engineering Journal and the Journal
of Visual Languages and Computing.
Dr. Menzies is also on the steering committee of the PROMISE
workshops on repeatable experiments in software engineering
(see http://promisedata.org).
Dr. Menzies received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the University of New South Wales in 1995,
his Masters of Cognitive Science in 1989 from UNSW 
and his Bachelor of Computer Science in 1985 from UNSW.
For more information, visit his web page at http://menzies.us. 
