Michal Young, PhD, is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Oregon. He earned a doctorate in information and computer science from University of California, Irvine. He has formerly served on the faculty of Purdue University, the Tecnopadova Master of Software Engineering Program in Padua, Italy, and the Oregon Master of Software Engineering. He has served as technical program chair of the 1998 ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, program co-chair of the 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering, general chair of the ACM Sigsoft 2006 Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, and as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Mauro Pezzè, PhD, is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milano–Bicocca. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Dr. Pezzè has served as technical program chair of the 2006 ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.  He has been technical lead for several multi-year international research and development projects in close collaboration with leading European information and communication companies including IBM, Phillips, Elsag, and Siemens, among others.  He also has an active consulting practice.