Mark Grechanik

Mark Grechanik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, affiliated with the College of Engineering. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin (2006), he has over 30 years of experience as a software consultant for startups and Fortune 500 companies. His research focuses on software systems, security, and quality assurance, with a strong emphasis on automated testing, cloud computing, and data privacy.

• Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2006

His work addresses critical challenges in software testing, including integration testing automation (ASSIST project), database deadlock prevention, GUI test script analysis, and cloud elasticity optimization. He has developed techniques leveraging static/dynamic analysis, machine learning, and accessibility technologies to improve test efficiency and fault detection.

Grechanik’s research has been recognized with best paper awards at SEKE 2019 and ICST 2009. He has secured funding from the NSF and Microsoft, and his innovations are commercialized through 37 patents. His publications span top venues like ICSE, ICST, ASE, and journals such as Empirical Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

He has served as General Chair of ICST 2016, member-at-large of the ACM SigSoft committee for nine years, and on editorial boards including Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal. Grechanik is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.