Gail E. Kaiser is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Programming Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. She was named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator in Software Engineering and Software Systems in 1988, and has published over 150 refereed papers in a range of software areas. Prof. Kaiser's research interests include software testing, collaborative work, computer and network security, parallel and distributed systems, self-managing systems, Web technologies, information management, and software development environments and tools. She has consulted or worked summers for courseware authoring, software process and networking startups, several defense contractors, the Software Engineering Institute, Bell Labs, IBM, Siemens, Sun and Telcordia.  Her lab has been funded by DARPA, NSF, ONR, NASA, NYS Science & Technology Foundation, and numerous companies.  Prof. Kaiser served on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing for many years, was a founding associate editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering, chaired an ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, vice chaired three of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, and serves frequently on conference program committees. She also served on the Committee of Examiners for the Educational Testing Service's Computer Science Advanced Test (the GRE CS test) for three years, and has chaired her department's doctoral program since 1997. Prof. Kaiser received her PhD and MS from CMU and her ScB from MIT. See her CV at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kaiser/vita.html for details.  Her lab's website is http://www.psl.cs.columbia.edu.

Teaching:
COMS W4156 Advanced Software Engineering (ASE) in Fall 2009.
COMS E6125 Web-enHanced Information Management (WHIM) in Spring 2010. 

Seeking new project students for Spring 2010.

PSL in the news:

• Columbia Magazine, Winter 2006-2007
• ComputerWorld, 10/28/03
• Government Computer News, 10/28/03
• Washington Post, 8/25/03
• Scientific American, 5/6/02
• eWeek, 4/11/02
• Government Computer News, 6/18/01

Current PSL PhD and MS Thesis Students:

• Christian Murphy

• Leon Wu

• Swapneel Sheth

• Nipun Arora

• David (Huning) Dai

Former PSL Students and Staff (please send any omissions or missing links, and report any broken links):

last updated January 12, 2010.
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