School appoints Cheriton Chair in Software Systems

Dr. Frank Tip has joined the Cheriton School as its first Cheriton Chair in Software Systems, a position funded by the School's naming endowment.
Prof. Tip has spent his career at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, here he has managed the Program Analysis and Transformation group since 2003. 

Widely cited as an expert in programming languages and software engineering, Tip is the author of over 50 scientific papers.  He has served on the technical program committee for all of the major conferences in his field, and is currently Chairman of Working Group 2.4 (Software Implementation Technology) of the International Federation for Information Processing.  He was named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2008, and received IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award in 2005.

Several of his papers have been named as Best Paper or Distinguished Paper at major conferences, and he is listed as inventor on a dozen US patents.  While he has not previously had full-time employment in academia, he has been an Adjunct Professor at New York University and was previously a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University in 2010-2011.