Name:Zvonimir Rakamaric

Bio:

Zvonimir Rakamaric is a principal applied scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an associate professor (on a leave of absence) in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Silicon Valley, where he worked closely with researchers from the Robust Software Engineering Group at NASA Ames Research Center to improve the coverage of testing of NASA’s flight critical systems. Zvonimir received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Zagreb, Croatia; he obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Zvonimir’s research mission is to improve the reliability and resilience of complex software systems by empowering developers with practical tools and techniques for analysis of their artifacts. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2016, Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Award 2012, Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship 2008-2010, Silver Medal in the ACM Student Research Competition at the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2010, and the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS) 2007. He is also an IEEE Senior Member.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Amazon Web Services

Research interests:Software Verification, Software Analysis, Formal Methods