Conference Organization

General Co-Chairs: Paul Croll, PR Croll LLC
D. Richard Kuhn, NIST
Program Co-Chairs: Mohammad Raunak, Loyola University Maryland
Rick Kuhn, NIST

The STC Organizing Committee is the permanent steering committee for the Conference. It selects each year's conference theme, provides the list of suggested topic areas for abstract submission, and makes the final program selections based upon reviewer scoring results.

Organizing Committee Members:

  • Irena Bojanova, NIST
  • Paul Croll, PR Croll LLC (General Chair)
  • Dick Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates
  • Gary Hafen, Lockheed Martin (retired)
  • Joe Callahan, CMMI Institute
  • Joe Jarzombek, Synopsys
  • Cheryl L. Jones, U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)
  • D. Richard Kuhn, NIST (General Co-Chair)
  • Cheryl McIntyre, Lockheed Martin
  • Diane Miller, Northrop Grumman
  • Cynthia L. Molin, Raytheon
  • Michele Moss, BAH
  • Ken Nidiffer, SEI
  • Garret Lee, Boeing
  • Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin
  • Rick Selby, Northrop Grumman
  • Rich Turner, Stevens Institute
  • Paul E. Black, NIST (Local Organization Chair)

DoD Liaison to the Organizing Committee:

  • Parker Bauer, Air Force STSC, Hill AFB

Program Committee Members:

  • Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging
  • Darryl Ahner, Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Reem Alfayez, University of Southern California
  • Jim Alstad, University of Southern California
  • Pooyan Behnamghader, University of Southern California
  • Renee Bryce, University of North Texas
  • Celia Chen, University of Southern California
  • Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University
  • Fred de Vaulx, Prometheus Computing
  • Anandi Hira, University of Southern California
  • Rick Kuhn, NIST
  • Bret Michael, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Eduardo Miranda, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Cindy Molin, Raytheon
  • Adam Porter, University of Maryland and Fraunhofer Institute
  • Kan Qi, University of Southern California
  • M S Raunak, Loyola University
  • Sreedevi Sampath, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • Kamonphop (Kam) Srisopha, University of Southern California
  • Alexey Tregubov, University of Southern California
  • Bo Wang, University of Southern California
  • Tim Weil, Scram Systems
  • Yan Wu, Bowling Green State University
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