About Me
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Tomas Cerny is an Associate Professor of Systems and Industrial engineering at the
University of Arizona, Tucson. He is in the Software Engineering unit managing
Software Engineering programs. After earning an Engineer and Masters's degrees
from the Czech Technical University, FEE, and from Baylor University, he has
served as an Assistant Professor at the Science and Computer Department at the
Czech Technical University, FEE, since 2009. Soon after earning a Doctoral degree
in 2016, he returned to Baylor University to join the Computer Science department.
He was tenured in 2023 at Baylor and moved as Associate Professor of Systems and
Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. His research focus is
Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Technical Debt, Static Analysis,
and Cloud-computing application maintenance.
He served 18 years as the lead developer of the International Collegiate Programming
Contest Management System and is currently the Global Infrastructure Director and ICPC Challenge Chair.
He authored 175 publications, mainly relating to code analysis and aspect-oriented
programming. Among his awards are the eight best papers, the 2023 Baylor
Scholarship Award, the Outstanding Service Award ACM SIGAPP 2018 and 2015,
and the 2011 ICPC Joseph S. DeBlasi Outstanding Contribution Award.
He was the finalist for Masters Teacher of the Year in Postgrad Awards 2024.
He actively serves the scientific community and was on the organizing committee
for IEEE SOSE, ESOCC, SANER, ACM SAC, ACM RACS, and ICITCS.
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