Luiz Fernando Capretz

Luiz Fernando Capretz has over 25 years of experience in the software engineering field as a practitioner, manager, and educator. Before joining the University of Western Ontario, Canada, he worked at both technical and managerial levels, taught and did research on the engineering of software in Brazil, Argentina, England, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates since 1981. He was the Director of Informatics and Coordinator of the computer science program in two universities (UMC and COC) in the State of Sao Paulo/Brazil. He has authored and coauthored over 60 peer-reviewed research papers on software engineering in leading international journals and conference proceedings, and coauthored a book: Object-Oriented Software: Design an Maintenance, published by World Scientific. His current research interests are software engineering (SE), human factors in SE, software product lines, and software engineering education. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), an M.S. from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE-Brazil), and a B.S. degree from UNICAMP (Brazil). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and an MBTI-Certified Practitioner. He is currently the Director of the Software Engineering Program at Western.

Biography Updated on 16 February 2009

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