| Joanne Bechta Dugan | | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | | Ph.D., Duke University | | | | Dr. Dugan has served on the University of Virginia faculty since 1993. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, cited for "contributions to dependability analysis of fault-tolerant computer systems." She is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, was program co-chair for ISSRE (International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering) in 2001, and is serving as co-general chair for ISSRE in 2002. She served the IEEE Transactions on Reliability for 10 years. She is the only person to have been awarded both the P.K. McElroy award for best paper (in 1996) and the A.O. Plait award for best tutorial (in 2001) at the RAMS (Reliability and Maintainability Symposium). She was awarded the IEEE Reliability Society Award in 2000. She is a senior member of SWE, a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Beta Kappa. | | | | Research Interests | | Joanne Bechta Dugan's research centers on the analysis of computer systems designed to tolerate hardware and software faults, with specific interest in hardware and software reliability engineering, fault-tolerant computing, and mathematical modeling using dynamic fault trees, Markov models, Bayesian Belief Networks and simulation. Her dynamic fault tree methodology has been implemented in Galileo, a software tool that was delivered to NASA at the end of 2001. Development of both the methodology and the software tool continues. | | |
Sponsored Research
Avionic System Safety Assessment Program (funded by: NASA Langley Research Center)
Automatic Generation of Dependability Models from UML (funded by: Lockheed Martin)
Software Quality & Safety Assessment Using Bayesian Belief Networks (funded by: NASA IV&V Center)
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