Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Coordinator for the Software Engineering Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Wong is a recipient of the Quality Assurance Special Achievement Award from Johnson Space Center, NASA (1997). Prior to joining UTD, he was with Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) as a Senior Research Scientist and as the project manager in charge of Dependable Telecom Software Development. Dr. Wong's research focus is on the development of technology to help practitioners produce high quality software at low cost. In particular, he is doing research in the areas of software testing, debugging, safety, reliability, and metrics at the application, as well as architectural design, level. He has very strong experience in applying his research results to real-life industry projects. Since 2003, Dr. Wong, as PI or as Co-PI, has received more than $2.6 million US dollars in research funding from such organizations as NSF, NASA, the Avaya Research Labs (formerly part of Lucent Bell Labs), IBM, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, and EDS/HP, among others. He has published over 150 refereed papers in journals and conference/workshop proceedings.

Dr. Wong has served, or is serving, as special issue guest editor for JSS, SPE, SQJ, IST, IJSEKE, and STVR, and as program chair or general chair of many international conferences. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI) sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society. Dr. Wong also serves as the Secretary of ACM SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing) and is on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Reliability Society.

Home page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~ewong

Mr. Struble is a Senior Software Technologist for Raytheon's North Texas Net-Centric Systems Software Engineering Center. He has been involved with design, implementation, or management of software systems for over 30 years spanning large government programs including the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and Future Combat Systems. For the last four years he has worked as a Software Supplier Manager for two large sensor subcontractors and is currently engaged in design of processes to support engineering's role in new business capture, as well as an end-to-end change management process for large Mission System Integrator programs. Mr. Struble received his Bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Dayton where he also served as Adjunct Assistant Professor, and his Master's degree from Ohio State University in Computer and Information Sciences.

Dr. Michael F. Siok is a staff Software Systems Engineer with over 25 years experience in embedded avionic computer systems and software development at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Siok works in the engineering department and has conducted research in computer performance and software assurance, developed detailed planning for avionics software programs, managed large avionics laboratory development projects, and conducted avionics systems test and analysis. In recent work, Dr. Siok led an inter-disciplinary inter-company senior engineering team to define and put into place the standard engineering practice for software safety at the company.

Dr. Siok received his D.Eng. and M.S. in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University (SMU), and a Bachelor's of Engineering Technology, Electronics, (with a double major in Music) from Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a registered Texas Professional Engineer, and an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

Thomas Hill, who became an EDS, an HP company, Fellow in 1991, was Director of EDS' Fellows and Distinguished Engineering Programs. The Fellows organization is responsible for corporate technical thought leadership and for creating innovative revenue-producing service offerings and tools for EDS' strategic targets, clients and EDS itself.

In addition to fulfilling his professional obligations, Mr. Hill is a member of the ACM and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He currently serves on the engineering boards of Texas Christian University and the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as volunteers as a mentor for the University of Dallas' MBA program. He has a BS and MBA in Information Technology, Microsoft certifications, and an open group architecture certification. Mr. Hill has written numerous articles and publications. He holds four active patents and has five patents pending.