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Contents

Publications

Grants/Contracts

Education

Teaching

Research

Current Projects

Contact Information

Biographical Information

Links to Related Web pages

 


 

Education

 PhD Information Technology, George Mason University, January 1999.

Dissertation: Input Validation Testing: A System Level, Early Lifecycle Technique

Advisor: A. Jefferson Offutt

 MS Computer Science, University of Southern Mississippi, May 1987.

Vitae

 


 

Contact Information

         Department: Computer Science

         Address:

301 Rose Street

Hardymon Building, Room 233

Lexington, KY40506-0495

         E-mail: hayes@cs.uky.edu

         Web Address: http://www.cs.uky.edu/~hayes

         Phone: (859) 257-3171

         Fax: (859) 323-3740

 


 

Research

 Research Interests:

Requirements engineering, traceability, verification and validation, software maintainability, fault-based analysis, interface-based system testing, automatic test data generation

 

 For a list of publications, click here

 


 

Teaching

 Courses:

Spring 2001 – CS 650 Problems Seminar: Software Engineering

Fall 2001 – CS 499 Senior Design Project

Spring 2002 – CS 685-05 Requirements Engineering

Fall 2002 – CS 616 Software Engineering

Spring 2003 – CS 685 Software Design

Fall 2003 – CS 616 Software Engineering

Spring 2004 – CS 685 Software Testing and Quality Evaluation

Fall 2004 – CS 616 Software Engineering

Spring 2005 – CS 687 Software Design

Fall 2005 – CS 499 Senior Design Project

Spring 2006 – CS 617 Requirements Engineering

Fall 2006 – CS 616 Software Engineering

Spring 2007 – CS 685 Empirical Software Engineering

Fall 2008 – CS 585 (and 485) Software Testing and Quality Evaluation

Spring 2009 – CS 499 Senior Design Project

Spring 2009 – CS 616 Software Engineering

Fall 2009 – CS 687 Empirical Software Engineering

Fall 2009 – CS 499 Senior Design Project

 Teaching Philosophy

 


 

Grants/Contracts

NSF, CPA-SEL-T:  Collaborative Research: Traceability+:  A Service Oriented Framework to Support Value-Added Software Traceability, with Jane Cleland-Huang and Jonathan Maletic, ~$500K for 5 years, submitted in December 2007, funded for $250K for 3 years in summer 2008.

NSF, CPA-SEL-T:  Collaborative Research: Traceability+:  A Service Oriented Framework to Support Value-Added Software Traceability, Research Experience for Undergraduates, $7900.

Co-PI, NASA, Toward Unambiguous and Consistent Textual Requirements:  An Application of Natural Language Processing Techniques, with Allen Nikora (JPL), Mirek Truszczynski, and Victor Marek, $311,084K for one year, submitted November 2008, announced award in May 2009, awaiting funds.

 


 

Biographical Information

Dr. Hayes is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Kentucky.  She is assisting the university in establishing a software engineering.  Previously, she was a Corporate Vice President and the Manager of the Integrated System Technologies Operation of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). She has over 16 years of experience in the field of verification and validation, testing, software development, and process improvement. She has been the verification and validation technical lead and/or program manager on numerous trusted software development efforts. She has led and participated in numerous management process/product audits and assessments of large projects. She has assisted with process, plan, and procedure development for testing and verification and validation, including assisting with the development of a Y2K testing standard for a commercial initiative.

 

Dr. Hayes holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University (GMU). She is the founding President of the Alumni Club of the Information Software Engineering Department at GMU, as well as a founding Member of their Industrial Advisory Board. She is a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. She is also a Certified Software Test Engineer through the Quality Assurance Institute.

 

Dr. Hayes has published numerous articles related to software verification, validation, and testing.

 


 

Current Projects

 

Consistency Checking of NL Requirements (NASA, NSF): This project aims to detect and correct inconsistency using tracing, NLP, ASP, and LP techniques.

Students:  Wenbin Li

Collaborator:  Mirek Truszczynski, Victor Marek, Allen Nikora

 

Traceability+ (NSF): This project aims to develop stakeholder driven value-added traceability services.

Students:  Ashlee Holbrook, Wenbin Li, Wei-Keat Kong, Hakim Sultanov, Jody Larsen, Alex Wilson, Isaac Lee, Aaron Jones

Collaborator:  Jane Cleland-Huang, Jonathan Maletic

 

Software Maintainability Modeling: This project seeks to empirically build and validate models of software maintainability.

Students:  Liming Zhao

 

Fault Links:This project evaluates the notion of fault links and fault chains, to improve software verification and validation.

Students:  Inies C.M., Ashlee Holbrook

 

 

Prior Projects:

 

Robust Requirement Tracing (funded by NASA): This project is aimed at improving an IV&V Technique and uses IR technology.

Students:  Senthil Sundaram, Sravanthi Vadlamudi, Sandeep Alluri

Collaborator:  Alex Dekhtyar

 

Obeserve-Mine-Adopt Model: This project is building an agile model to assist organizations to make improvements to their software development processes.

Students:  Naresh Mohamed, Tina Gao

 

Fault-Based Analysis (funded by NASA): This project aims to improve IV&V practices through requirements risk reduction using fault-based analysis. It is in collaboration with D.N. American and SAIC.

Students:  Bill Wyatt

 

 

 


 

Links to Related Web Pages

 

         Software Verification and Validation Lab

         Software Engineering Research Seminar

         University of Kentucky Home Page

         University of Kentucky Campus Directory

         Gerald N. Galstan Memorial Fellowship

         Picture of People in the Software Engineering Group

 

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Last Revised: 02/06/2010