Mary Lou Soffa

Mary Lou Soffa received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977. Since that time, she has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department. She served

as the Graduate Dean in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh from 1991 through 1996. In 1999, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. She also was elected an ACM Fellow in 1999. In 1987 she received an NSF Professorship for Women award.

She currently serves on the editorial board for IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Computer Languages and the South African Journal of Computing.

She serves as Vice President for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and also as co-chair of the CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in CSE. She is currently a member-at-large for ACM SIGBoard. She has served as conference chair, program chair and program committee member for conferences in both programming languages and software engineering. Her research interests include optimizing and parallelizing compilers, program analysis, and software tools for debugging and testing programs.