Tim Menzies

prof, phd, cs, se, ai
+1-304-376-2859
timm@ieee.org

Ex-nurse, ex-taxi-driver,
ex-rocket scientist, ex-journalist
(it all made sense at the time)


I am an ACM fellow, IEEE fellow, ASE fellow and the editor-in-chief of the Automated SE journal. For 2010–2026 I was an Associate Editor, IEEE TSE

I earned my phd from UNSW (1995) and am a Full Professor at NC State, where I direct the Irrational Research Lab. My work focuses on software engineering for AI — building data-driven, explainable, and intelligent software systems. I co-created the PROMISE repository, showing that small, interpretable AI models can often outperform larger, more complex ones.

24 Ph.D. students advised + 3 in progress.

$19M in grants from NASA, NSF, NSA, LexisNexis, Microsoft, Meta, National Archives, etc.

300+ papers, 25,000+ citations (h-index=75).

wanna work with me ?

Want to find+fix bugs in real AI/ML? are you in industry or at NC State? Email me and/or take my SE and AI subject (Fall'26) and/or join my reading group (runs every semester).

News

Apr 2026: Talk at ICSE'26 on HPO and SE. Blog: Promoted, Not Replaced. Talk at ICSE'26 on shaky causal structures. Paper in JSS on explaining optimization. Paper in TOSEM on LLMs warming-up active learning.

Mar 2026: Paper at FSE'26: How low can you go? Paper in EMSE: Improving LLM Annotations.

Feb 2026: Paper at VERIFAI'26: Exploiting Sparsity.

Jan 2026: Paper at ICSE'26 FOSE: SE Journals in 2036. Paper at MSR: Multi-Objective Optimization Repo. Keynote at VerifAI, France. Keynote at SSBSE'26.

older news

Sep 2025: Talk, Valencia SE Group.

Aug 2025: Letter in CACM: The Case for Compact AI. Keynote at Airbnb Dev Conference, San Francisco.

Jul 2025: Keynote at Future Advanced Testing Workshop, Paris.

Jun 2025: Keynote at ESEM'25, Hawaii.

Apr 2025: Andre Motta completes his Ph.D.

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