Don Batory

Don Batory is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has held the David Bruton Centennial Professorship since 1983. He previously served as faculty at the University of Florida (1981) and has been a pivotal figure in advancing Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD).

• Education: B.S. (1975), M.Sc. (1977) from Case Institute of Technology; Ph.D. (1980) from the University of Toronto.

His research focuses on Automated Software Design, Model Driven Engineering, and Feature-Based Product Lines, with applications to software refactoring and formal methods. His recent publications span topics like category theory in software engineering (2023), refactoring-aware testing (2018), and graph grammars in design automation (2013).

• Key trends: Integration of mathematical abstractions into software design, optimization of software maintenance practices, and formalization of product line engineering.

He has received the Automated Software Engineering 2013 Most Influential Paper Award (with Lance Tokuda) and co-authored a textbook on FOSD. Since 1993, he and his students have produced 11 award-winning papers in automated program development.

• Leadership roles: Program Co-Chair (2002 GPCE), Associate Editor (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Database Systems), and committee member across major conferences (PEPM, MODELS, SPLASH, GPCE).