Jeff Gray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
126 Campbell Hall
1300 University Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35294
email: gray@cis.uab.edu
Phone: 205-934-8643 Fax: 205-934-5473
Jeff Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he co-directs the Software Composition and Modeling (SoftCom) laboratory. He is an NSF CAREER award winner and was named the Alabama Professor of the Year (see News sidebar). Jeff is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. He currently serves as the chair of the Alabama IEEE Computer Society.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in May of 2002 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. While at Vanderbilt, Jeff was a research assistant at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), where he worked on the DARPA Program Composition for Embedded Systems (PCES) project. He also worked on a tool integration project at ISIS that was funded by Boeing. Jeff's thesis advisor was Dr. Steve Schach, and his dissertation committee members were Dr. Janos Sztipanovits, Dr. Gabor Karsai, Dr. Larry Dowdy, Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick, and Dr. Fritz Barnes.
In 1991, he graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Computer Science from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Jeff completed the undergraduate degree in three years and was a WVU Honors Student. As an undergraduate, he made the Dean's list every semester and was named a WVU Arts and Sciences Scholar in 1990 and 1991 (1 of 25 students from over 3,000). In 1993, he received an MS in Computer Science (also from WVU). His MS advisor was Dr. Murali Sitaraman and his thesis committee members were Dr. Frances Van Scoy and Dr. Doug Harms.
Jeff graduated high school in 1988 from the Linsly School (founded in 1814), in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was a member of the last all-male graduating class before the school went coed. His research mentors at Linsly were Dr. Garth Innocenti and Mr. Mike Chokel. At Union Junior High School, Mr. James Asplund and Mr. Emil Nardone gave Jeff his first opportunity to explore the joys of computing.
Other additional information about Jeff is available here.
Current/Previous Funding
Below is a summary of external awards over $10k granted to UAB on which I serve(d) as PI or co-PI. A summary of all research grants can be found here.
Active Awards:
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NSF CAREER:
$400,000; 4/07-4/12 -
NSF CPA:
$239,953; 8/07-8/10 -
NSF ITEST:
$1,080,000; 1/08-12/10 -
NSF Discovery K-12:
$2,437,577; 8/09-7/14 -
Google Research Award:
$48,500 12/09-12/10
Previous Awards:
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NSF SMA:
$377,000; 9/05-8/07 -
IBM Eclipse Grant:
$15k; 3/05-2/06 - DARPA PCES 2:
$1,177,373; 4/03-3/05 - DARPA PCES:
$51,009; 12/02-5/03
Conference Committees
Below is a list of conferences in which I serve as organizer or program committee member in the upcoming year. A more detailed list of these events, as well as an archive of past events, is available here.
ICMT 10 (Steering Comm.), OOPSLA 10 (Workshops Chair), SC 10, AOSD 10, Meta-Aspects, SLE 10, TOOLS 10, SEKE 10, Composition Variability
Previous Students
Dr. Yuehua Lin
(Summer 2007)
Dr. Hui Wu
(Fall 2007)
Dr. Suman Roychoudhury
(Summer 2008)
Dr. Jing Zhang
(Spring 2009)
The following is a list of recent news items.
For archived news, please click
here.
Family Photos
Prof. of the Year
HSPC and AFF
New Alice Class
Upcoming Pubs
K-12 Outreach
Media Archives
Television stories and radio interviews of the Outreach events are
available on the
Media Archives page.
SoSym Editor
I currently serve as an Associate Editor of
Software and Systems
Modeling (Springer).
