Richard N. Taylor

Richard N. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI and a member of the Department of Informatics (of which he was chair from its founding in January 2003 through June 2004). He received the Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980. His research interests are centered on design and software architectures, especially event-based and peer-to-peer systems and the way they scale across organizational boundaries.

Taylor was the Director of the Institute for Software Research from 1999 through 2017, which is dedicated to fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies through partnerships with industry and government. He has served as chairman of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, SIGSOFT, chairman of the steering committee for the International Conference on Software Engineering, and was general chair of the 1999 International Joint Conference on Work Activities, Coordination, and Collaboration and the 2004 International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. He was the General Chair for the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011.

Taylor was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and in 1998 he was recognized as an ACM Fellow. In 2005, he was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award. In May 2008, he received ICSE’s Most Influential Paper Award, along with co-authors Peyman Oreizy and Nenad Medvidovic, for “Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution from ICSE 1998. In May 2009, he was recognized with the 2009 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. In February 2010, he was designated a UCI Chancellor’s Professor. In 2012, he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, and in 2017 was granted a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award by the University of Colorado, Boulder.