Audris Mockus

Audris Mockus is the Ericsson-Harlan D. Mills Chair Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University and has extensive experience in software engineering research, particularly in Digital Archaeology and Open Source Software analysis. His work focuses on understanding developer behavior, software evolution, and global software development challenges.

Education:

• PhD in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1994
• MS in Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1991
• BS in Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1988

Research Interests: Mockus specializes in recovering and analyzing digital traces of software development to study developer behavior, software quality, and project dynamics. His research includes quantifying open-source supply chains, measuring developer expertise, and improving software defect prediction. He has pioneered methods for analyzing version control systems and global software teams.

Awards and Grants:

• Recipient of multiple best paper awards at ICSE, FSE, and other conferences.
• Lead PI on NSF grants totaling over $2M for projects like the World of Code (WoC) infrastructure and forensic image curation.
• Patents in data visualization and software defect prediction.

Advising and Labs: Mockus has advised PhD students on topics like npm ecosystem analysis and forensic image clustering. His research group collaborates with institutions like the National Institute of Justice on projects like Image Cloud Platform for forensic data curation.