Tevfik Bultan - Short Biography

Tevfik Bultan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research interests are in software verification, program analysis, software engineering, and computer security. He has more than 100 refereed research publications and has served on more than 50 technical program committees of international conferences and workshops. He co-chaired the program committees of the 9th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2011), the 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) which is the flagship conference of ACM SIGSOFT, and the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013). He has served as the vice chair of the Department of Computer Science at UCSB from 2005 to 2009.

Tevfik Bultan was a keynote speaker at the 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2008), the 6th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE 2008), the 9th International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2012), the 2013 IFIP Joint International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (33rd FORTE / 15th FMOODS), and the 14th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2016). He received a NATO Science Fellowship from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 1993, a Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation in 2000, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and the Best Paper Award at the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005), the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014), and the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2016. He was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2016.