Alan Wassyng Director, McMaster Centre for Software Certification (McSCert) Acting Director, Software Quality Research Laboratory (SQRL) Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Software McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering Office: Room 166, Information Technology Building (maps) Phone: +1 (905) 525-9140 ext. 26072 Fax: +1 (905) 524-0340 E-mail: wassyng@mcmaster.ca A brief, relatively recent CV can be found here (PDF). Updated June 2011.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 1979, "The Solution of Large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations with Applications in Boundary Element Methods"
• M.Sc., 1974, "The Motion of Record Styli & Distortion in Hi-Fi Turntable Systems"
• B.Sc. (Hons), 1971, Applied Mathematics
• B.Sc., 1970, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics

These degrees were obtained at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

RESEARCH

• Software certification - see McSCert above. Also, I am a founding member of the Software Certification Consortium (SCC). Link coming soon.
• Real-time and embedded systems - especially safety-critical systems
• Timing issues in requirements and software design
• Tabular expressions - and their use in industry
• Software tools for rigorous software development
• Methods for rigorous software development
• Software engineering education

TEACHING

• CAS 703, Software Design (2004)
• CAS 753, Specifying, Implementing and Verifying Timing Behaviours for Hard Real-Time Systems (2007, 2008, 2011)
• ENG 1D04, Engineering Computation (2006-2008)
• SFWR ENG 2AA4, Software Design I (2004-2006, 2010)
• SFWR ENG 3E03, Design & Selection of Sequential Programming Languages (2000-2001)
• SFWR ENG 3F03, Machine Level Programming (2003-2006)
• SFWR ENG 3K04, Software Development (2008, 2010)
• SFWR ENG 3X03, Scientific Computation and Mathematical Simulation (2005)
• SFWR ENG 4G06/TRON 4TB6, Senior Design Project (Capstone) (2010/2011)