Ed Allen - [ CSE Faculty and Staff ]

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Phone: (662) 325-7449
Email: allen@cse.msstate.edu

Biographical Information:

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University

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Research Areas:
Software Metrics, Empirical Software Engineering, No-Surprises Software Development, Assurance of Software for Critical Applications

Information for prospective graduate students

• MSU Office of Graduate Studies
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• Graduate program in computer science.

Class Web Sites

My class Web sites are available to enrolled students via the OnCampus Web portal.

Experience

Dr. Allen's first year at Mississippi State University was 2000. He began his career as a programmer with the U.S. Army. From 1974 to 1983, he performed systems engineering and software engineering on military systems, first for Planning Research Corp. and then for Sperry Corp. From 1983 to 1992, he developed corporate data processing systems for Glenbeigh, Inc., a specialty health care company. From 1995 to 2000, he conducted research in software engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of the American Scientific Affiliation. He is also an affiliated researcher with the MSU Center for Computer Security Research, the MSU Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology, and the MSU Institute for Digital Biology.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 1995
• M.S. in Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1973
• B.S. in Engineering, Brown University, 1971

Research Interests

• No-surprises software development
  • Software metrics
  • Software process
  • Software quality
• Certification of software for critical applications
  • Software verification
  • Software reliability
  • Software testing
• Empirical methods in software engineering

He has more than 70 refereed publications in these areas. For more information:

• Summary resume (PDF)
• Full resume, including all publications. (PDF)

Empirical Software Engineering Research Group

The Empirical Software Engineering research group is an informal forum for mutual help and collaboration in software engineering research. The group meets weekly throughout the year. Attendance and the email list are open to all who are interested.

All students who work for me or for whom I am major professor are members of the Empirical Software Engineering research group.