Mira Mezini

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Mira Mezini (born November 18, 1966 ) is a computer scientist and university lecturer . She is head of the software engineering department at the computer science department at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

From 1984 to 1989 she studied computer science at the University of Tirana . From 1992 until her doctorate in 1997 she was a research assistant at the University of Siegen . From 1999 she taught for three years at Northeastern Universityin Boston in the USA. In 2002 she moved to the TU Darmstadt, where she holds a chair for computer science as a full professor. From 2013 to 2016 she was visiting professor at Lancaster University (UK). From 2013 to 2014 she was dean of the Department of Computer Science, from 2014 to 2016 Vice President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer and from 2017 to 2019 Vice President of TU Darmstadt for Research and Innovation. She is a member of the board of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE.

Mira Mezini is married and has one daughter.

Awards, honors, outstanding positions in the research community

Mira Mezini was appointed a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in 2016. For her research, she has received several research awards, including an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award (2005 and 2006), a Google Research Award (2017) and the German IT Security Award (2014) In 2012 Mezini received from ERC an Advanced Grant in the amount of 2.3 million euros, the highest endowed sponsorship award in the EU. She is a member of various committees, including the IT specialist committee of the German Research Foundation, the international START / Wittgenstein jury of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Austria and the Executive Committee of SIGPLAN - Special Interest Group for Programming Languages ​​- des Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is the Quadriga representative in the National Cybersecurity Pact and was appointed to the selection committee of the ERC Scientific Council by the EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth in 2020.

Research priorities and current research projects

  • Programming paradigms / languages, especially for fault-tolerant distributed and decentralized data-intensive software applications and software security.
  • Learning-based programming for automated software engineering.
  • Program analysis and reasoning, in particular for the automated checking of software security and data protection requirements.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bodies - ATHENA. In: athene-center.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ CYSEC-PI Prof. Mira Mezini receives funding for a project on problematic children's apps - Cybersecurity profile area - Technical University of Darmstadt. In: cysec.tu-darmstadt.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Winner of the 5th German IT Security Award 2014. In: horst-goertz.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ TU computer scientist Mira Mezini receives ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.3 million euros - Innovations Report. In: innovations-report.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ START / Wittgenstein jury. In: fwf.ac.at. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ BMI - National Cybersecurity Pact - The Quadriga. In: bmi.bund.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ Professor Mezini appointed to the search committee of the ERC Scientific Council - Computer Science - Technical University of Darmstadt. In: informatik.tu-darmstadt.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mezini, Mira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1966