Directory profile for Dr. Jeffrey Carver

Dr. Jeffrey Carver’s overall research goal is to improve the quality and reliability of software through empirical software engineering research, which seeks to provide concrete data, observations, and evidence to support decision-making. He is primarily concerned with the human aspects of software engineering. As such, his research focuses on developing, measuring, and improving processes and tools to increase software quality with respect to attributes such as cost, correctness, reliability, and security. Empirical software engineering techniques also allow researchers and practitioners to gather information to provide a deeper understanding of the context(s) in which techniques and methods are most useful.

Carver’s specific research interests focus on software engineering for research software, peer code review, software testing, and software security. He has active funding in these areas from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and NOAA. He has published his research in high-profile venues, including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Computing in Science and Engineering, the International Conference on Software Engineering, and the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.

He is the Editor-in-Chief for Computing in Science & Engineering, an Associate Editor for Empirical Software Engineering, and the Special Content Editor for Information and Software Technology.