7 Biography

Dr. Jeffrey Voas is a Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Reliable Software Technologies and is currently the principal investigator on research initiatives for DARPA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Voas has also recently served as a Principle Investigator on efforts for NASA, National Science Foundation, and the USAF. He has published over 85 refereed journal and conference papers. Voas has coauthored a text, ``Software Assessment: Reliability, Safety, Testability (John Wiley & Sons, 1995).'' Voas has co-authored a second text, ``Software fault-injection: inoculating programs against errors,'' to be published by Wiley (Fall, 1997). Voas will be the special editor of an IEEE Computer theme issue on ``Commercial off-the-shelf software'' in 1998. Voas was the General Chair for COMPASS'97, and serves on the Editorial Board for the Software Quality Professional Journal. Voas is currently writing a chapter on software liability for the "Advances in Computer" book series. Voas's current research interests include: information security metrics, software liability, certification, software dependability metrics, COTS-based systems, and information warfare tactics.