Jeff Tian, Ph.D., P.E. Professor, Computer Science Dept Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas 75275-0122 Phone: (214)768-2861; Fax: (214)768-3085 E-mail: tian@smu.edu Home page: s2.smu.edu/~tian

Research and publications

• Software engineering: Testing, reliability, usability, safety, metrics, and risk management.
• Cloud/net-centric/service-oriented, web-based, telecom, and other large systems.
• Sponsors & collaborators: NSF, THECB, Nortel, IBM, Lockheed-Martin, etc.
• Software Quality Engineering book and other publications.

Teaching and student advising (esp. MS/SwEng. students)

• Spring 2025: CSE 5/7312 and CSE 5/7314.
• See also information/web pages for previous classes I taught.

Biographical sketches (see also my CV, photos, and hobbies)

• SMU/CSE/CS, 1995 - present; IBM SWS Toronto Lab, 1992 - 1995.
• PhD/CS, Maryland; MS/ES, Harvard; BS/EE, Xi'an Jiaotong U..
• Associate Director, NSF Net-Centric I/UCRC, 2009 - present.