Dr. Tim Menzies is an associate professor in the Lane Department
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia
University.  He is the author of 170 refereed papers (see
http://menzies.us/papers.php).  Dr. Menzies has a long background
in practical applications of advanced software research. For the
last 15 years, he has worked as a software engineering consultant
on object-oriented systems. Since 1998, Dr. Menzies has been
consulting with NASA on learning methods for improving the testability
of early life-cycle requirements.  In the period 2001-2002, he was
the software engineering research chair at the NASA IV\&V Facility,
Fairmont, West Virginia.  Currently, his is the liaison between
NASA IV\&V and West Virginia University.  He is also currently on
the Editorial Board for the Empirical Software Engineering Journal
and the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.  Dr. Menzies is
also on the steering committee of the PROMISE workshops on repeatable
experiments in software engineering (see http://promisedata.org).
Dr. Menzies received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of New South Wales in 1995, his Masters of Cognitive Science in
1989 from UNSW and his Bachelor of Computer Science in 1985 from
UNSW.  For more information, visit his web page at http://menzies.us.



Ying Hu is a software developer in Vancouver, Canada. Ms. Hu's
currrent research focuses on design practice and domain modeling.
Currently she works on financial systems developed in .NET.  Ms Hu
recieved her Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University
of British Columbia, 2003.