Tim Menzies

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So I seek talented grad students & industrial partners to find + fix the problems in real-world AI/ML.
Is that you? Maybe "yes" if you want to be a leader in AI (and not just another follower).

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News:

Jan'25: Elected ACM Fellow
Jan'25: New grant, $310K Better fuzzing, with L3harris
Dec'24: Podcast, Diversify Publishing
Nov'24 Paper, IEEE Software AI Over-Hype
Nov'24 Paper, IEEE ACCESS Data Synthesis
Nov'24: Xueqi Yang completes her Ph.D.
Oct'24 Tutorial, ASE'24 Understandable Models
Oct'24 Paper, EMSE "Co-training" for SSL
Sept '24 Tutorial, Models'24 Understandable Models
Sept'24: Elected ASE Fellow
Sept'24: Rahul Yedida completes his Ph.D.
July'24 Paper, TSE How to Achieve Equalized Odds
June'24: Kewen Peng completes his Ph.D.
June'24: Xiao Ling completes his Ph.D.

Tim Menzies (ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ASE Fellow, Ph.D., UNSW, 1995) is a full Professor in Computer Science at North Carolina State where he explores how to make best decisions using the least amount of data. He is the director of the Irrational Research lab (mad scientists r'us) and the author of over 300 publications (refereed) with 24,000 citations and an h-index of 74. He has graduated 22 Ph.D. students, and has been a lead researcher on projects for NSF, NIJ, DoD, NASA, USDA (total funding of $19+ million) as well as joint research work with private companies. Prof. Menzies is the editor-in-chief of the Automated Software Engineering journal and associate editor of TSE (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering) and other leading SE journals. For more, see his web site https://timm.fyi.

Current

Editor-in-chief: Automated Software Engineering journal
Editorial Board: Communications of the ACM (opinions)
Associate Editor: IEEE Trans SE, IEEE Software (SE+ethics)
Track co-chair: ESEM'25 (doctoral symposium)
Program committees: ICSE'26, ICSE'25, FSE'25, SANER'25, ESEM'25, CAIN'25, AAAI(ethics)'25

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