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Betty Cheng

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 1129

Biography

Betty H.C. Cheng is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. She has also been the Industrial Relations Manager and senior researcher for BEACON, the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center in the area of Evolution in Action. Her research interests include self-adaptive autonomous systems, requirements engineering, model-driven engineering, automated software engineering, and harnessing evolutionary computation and search-b

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Education

B.S., Computer Science, Northwestern University 1985

M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 1987

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 1990

Awards

MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2007

MSU College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, 2008

MSU College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Award, 1998

Publications

"Harnessing Digital Evolution," IEEE Computer 2008 (P. McKinley, B.H.C. Cheng, C. Ofria, D. Knoester, B. Beckmann, H. Goldsby), pp. 54-63. (Automatic generation of adaptive software and software models.

"Research Directions of Requirements Engineering," IEEE ICSE 2007, Future of Software Engineering (co-authored with Jo Atlee), pp. 285-303.

"Model-Based Development of Dynamically Adaptive Software" (Ji Zhang and Betty H.C. Cheng), in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE06), Shanghai, China, May 2006. (9% acceptance rate) (Received Distinguished Paper Award), pp. 371-380.