Tim Menzies

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

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 ?

Industry or NC State? Find+fix bugs in real AI/ML. Email me, take my SE+AI subject (Fall'26), or sign up for my reading group (Fall 2026).

May'26SSBSE'26: Zoom, Don't Wander — Regional Search vs. Pareto vs. Global
IST: From Coverage to Causes: Data-Centric Fuzzing for JS Engines
Apr'26ICSE'26: HPO and SE
Promoted, Not Replaced
ICSE'26: shaky causal structures
JSS: explaining optimization
TOSEM: LLMs warming-up active learning
ICSE'26: Future of SE
Mar'26Reappointed EIC, ASE journal
PC Member, FSE'27
Co-chair, Future of SE track, ICSE 2028
PC Member, ICSE'27 NIER
FSE'26: How low can you go?
EMSE: Improving LLM Annotations
Feb'26IEEE Fellows Review Committee
VERIFAI'26: Exploiting Sparsity
Jan'26ICSE'26 FOSE: SE Journals in 2036
MSR: Multi-Objective Optimization Repo
VerifAI, France
SSBSE'26
older news (2025)
Dec'25Area Chair: ASE'26, ICSE'26
Oct'25PC Member: ISSTA'26, FSE'26, ICSE NIER'26,
CAIN'26
Sep'25Valencia SE Group
Aug'25CACM: The Case for Compact AI
Airbnb Dev Conference, San Francisco
Jul'25PC: AAAI Social Impact'26, CAIN'26
Future Advanced Testing Workshop, Paris
Jun'25ESEM'25, Hawaii
May'25Co-chair, EMSE'25 Doctoral Symposium

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