Michael Ernst
Associate Professor, University of Washington

Website | Attendee Directory Profile

Michael D. Ernst is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington. He has been honored as a ``Java Rock Star’’ for a crowd-pleasing JavaOne presentation. He is the specification lead for the Type Annotations language extension (``JSR 308’‘) that will be part of Java 8 - the first non-Sun-employee to be the specification lead for a Java language change. This JSR was awarded ``most innovative JSR’’ by Sun. Ernst’s research aims to make software more reliable, more secure, and easier (and more fun!) to produce. His primary technical interests are in software engineering and related areas, including programming languages, type theory, security, program analysis, bug prediction, testing, and verification. Ernst’s research combines strong theoretical foundations with realistic experimentation, with an eye to changing the way that software developers work. Dr. Ernst was previously a tenured professor at MIT, and before that a researcher at Microsoft Research. More information is available at his homepage.