Tim Menzies
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prof, phd, cs, se, ai
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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.
Career
"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." — John Archibald Wheeler
- 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).
- tools — tiny, runnable research gists (one file, three commands).
News
paper · appointed · talk · keynote · blog · panel · award · tool
| Jul'26 | SSBSE'26 keynote: easier AI? | |
| TSE: Time Efficiency of Code Generated & Optimized by LLMs | ||
| TSE: Less Noise, More Signal — the DRR Effect (pdf) | ||
| luk on luarocks — Lua + Python-style indentation (read the tour) | ||
| Jun'26 | tool: ezr2 — active learning + self-explaining trees, zero deps (read the tour) | |
| tool: ezr toolkit — lightweight XAI for multi-objective optimization (from the EZR paper) | ||
| Invited to inaugural ACM SIGSOFT Academy, 2026 | ||
| arXiv: Can AI be Easy? Lessons from the EZR.py Toolkit | ||
| May'26 | Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award (top 20% editors) | |
| Is This the Return of Symbolic AI? | ||
| PC Member, ESEM'26 | ||
| SSBSE'26: Zoom, Don't Wander — Regional Search vs. Pareto vs. Global | ||
| IST: From Coverage to Causes: Data-Centric Fuzzing for JS Engines |
wanna work with me ?
Are you industry? Or enrolled at NC State?
want to find+fix bugs in real ai/ml?
Email me, and/or take my SE+AI subject (Fall'26),
and/or
sign up for my reading group (Fall 2026).
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