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 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, the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software
Engineering (ASE 2013) and the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE 2019) which is the premier software engineering
conference in the world. He was the general chair of the 2017 ACM SIGSOFT
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017). He
has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions of Software
Engineering (TSE), and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology (TOSEM). He has served on the steering committees of ACM
SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA),
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE),
and ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
He has also served as the chair (2019-2023) and vice chair (2005-2009) of the
Department of Computer Science at UCSB.
Tevfik Bultan is the recipient of a NATO Science Fellowship from the
Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), a Regents'
Junior Faculty Fellowship from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science
Foundation, two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards, a Best Paper Award
from International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE),
and the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. He was
recognized as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2016.