Primary Job Title Office Director, Information Innovation Office (I2O) Primary Organization DARPA
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
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William L. Scherlis is an Office Director, Information Innovation Office (I2O) at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) also a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is the founding director of CMU's PhD program in Software Engineering and director of CMU's Institute for Software
Research (ISR) in the School of Computer Science.
His research relates to software assurance, software evolution and technology to support software teams. Dr. Scherlis joined the CMU faculty after completing a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University, a year at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) as a John Knox fellow and an A.B. at Harvard University.
He was Lead Principal Investigator of the High Dependability Computing Project (HDCP), in which CMU led a collaboration with five universities to help NASA address long-term software dependability challenges. He was also co-principal investigator (with two colleagues) of a project with NASA and diverse industry and laboratory subcontractors which focused on dependable real-time and embedded software systems. The project he led on software assurance technology and practices led to the creation of SureLogic, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon spin-off.
Dr. Scherlis is involved in a number of activities related to technology and policy, recently testifying before congress on innovation and information technology and previously, on roles for a federal CIO. He interrupted his career at CMU to serve at DARPA for six years, departing in 1993 as Senior Executive Responsible for Coordination of Software Research. While at DARPA he had responsibility for research and strategy in computer security, aspects of high performance computing, information infrastructure and other topics.
Dr. Scherlis chairs the National Research Council (NRC) study committee on defense software producibility and is a member of the NRC study committee on cyber security.
He served multiple terms as a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT). He recently completed chairing a NRC study on information technology, innovation and e-government. He has led or participated in other national studies related to cyber security, crisis response, analyst information management, Department of Defense software management and health care informatics infrastructure.
He has been an advisor to major IT companies and he has served as program chair for a number of technical conferences, including the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) symposium. He has more than 70 scientific publications.
