Nenad Medvidović

Nenad Medvidović
CitizenshipAmerican
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2016)
ACM Fellow (2025)
ACM/IEEE ICSE Most Influential Paper (2008)
IEEE ICSA Best Paper (2017)
IEEE/ACM ASE Best Tool Paper (2017)
IEEE ICSA Best Paper (2018)
ACM/IEEE SEAMS Most Influential Paper (2020)
IEEE TSE Most Influential Paper (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsSoftware Engineering
Computer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern California
Doctoral advisorRichard Taylor
Doctoral studentsChris Mattmann
Websitesoftarch.usc.edu/~neno/

Nenad Medvidović is a computer scientist whose work has focused on software engineering and distributed systems. He is a Professor and Chair of the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.[1] He is a Fellow of ACM[2] and IEEE.[3]

Medvidović served as Chair of ACM SIGSOFT[4] and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). He received Distinguished Service Awards from ACM SIGSOFT (2020)[5] and IEEE TCSE (2026)[6].

Medvidović co-authored the textbook Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice (2009). In 2008, he received the Most Influential Paper Award for a paper titled "Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution"[7] published in the 1998 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).[8] In 2020, he received the Most Influential Paper Award for a paper titled "An architectural style for solving computationally intensive problems on large networks"[9] published in the 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS).[10][11] In 2025, his paper titled "A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages", published in 2000 in IEEE TSE, was named a TSE Most Influential Paper[12]. In 2017 and 2018, Medvidović received back-to-back Best Paper Awards[13] from the IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) for his papers titled "Continuous Analysis of Collaborative Design"[14] and ''An Empirical Study of Architectural Decay in Open-Source Software"[15]. In 2017, his paper titled "SEALANT: A Detection and Visualization Tool for Inter-app Security Vulnerabilities in Android" received the Best Tool Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)[16].

Medvidović received a PhD from UC Irvine in 1999.[17]

Bibliography

  • Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice 2009. Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-16774-8

References

  1. ^ "Nenad Medvidović". USC (University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  2. ^ "Recipients". Retrieved February 1, 2026.
  3. ^ "IEEE Fellows Directory". IEEE. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  4. ^ "ACM SIGSOFT - Executive Committee". ACM. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  5. ^ Hugo, SIGSOFT template made by Raula using. "Distinguished Service Award". The ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. Retrieved 2026-02-06.
  6. ^ "Awards". IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering. Retrieved 2026-02-06.
  7. ^ Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution. April 1998. pp. 177–186. ISBN 9780818683688.
  8. ^ "ICSE 2008 MIP Award".
  9. ^ Brun, Yuriy; Medvidovic, Nenad (2007). "An Architectural Style for Solving Computationally Intensive Problems on Large Networks". International Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS '07). p. 2. doi:10.1109/SEAMS.2007.4. ISBN 978-0-7695-2973-8. S2CID 1216395.
  10. ^ "USC Computer Science Professor Wins Most Influential Paper Award".
  11. ^ "CICS Professor Yuriy Brun Receives SEAMS 2020 Most Influential Paper Award". Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences. 25 March 2020.
  12. ^ "50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 2026-02-06.
  13. ^ "Continuous Analysis of Collaborative Design" (PDF). 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture.
  14. ^ "Best Paper Award at ICSA 2017". 5 April 2017.
  15. ^ "Hall of Fame – ICSA". Retrieved 2026-02-06.
  16. ^ "ASE 2017". www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de. Retrieved 2026-02-06.
  17. ^ "Nenad Medvidovic". Viterbi Faculty Directory. Retrieved 26 October 2022.