Betty Cheng
Betty Cheng
Professor
Research Biography
Dr. Cheng’s research and teaching interests include formal methods for software engineering, component-based software development, object-oriented analysis and design, embedded systems development, dynamically-adaptive systems, visualization, and distributed computing. She is a co-founder of the Software Engineering and Network Systems Laboratory that currently supports 6 faculty members and their graduate students. Her research has been funded by NSF, DARPA, NASA, ONR, EPA, USDA, and numerous industrial organizations.
Selected Publications
- "Research Directions of Requirements Engineering,'' IEEE ICSE 2007, Future of Software Engineering (co-authored with Jo Atlee), pp. 285-303.
- "Harnessing Digital Evolution,'' IEEE Computer 2008 (P. McKinley, B.H.C. Cheng, C. Ofria, D. Knoester, B. Beckmann, H. Goldsby), pp. 54-63. (Automatic generation of adaptive software and software models.)
- "Model-Based Development of Dynamically Adaptive Software'' (Ji Zhang and Betty H.C. Cheng), in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE06), Shanghai, China, May 2006. (9% acceptance rate) (Received Distinguished Paper Award), pp. 371-380.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2007
- MSU College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, 2008
- MSU College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Award, 1998