Professor  Nenad Medvidović

Nenad Medvidović is a TRW Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is a Professor and Chair in USC’s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science Department. Medvidović recently completed a five-year term as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TSE, Transactions on Software Engineering (2018-2022), one of his field’s leading journals. He has served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) (2015-2018). Additionally, he served as Chair of the Steering Committees for ICSE, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (2013-2015), and FSE, the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (2015-2017). Medvidović has been the recipient of the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010), the OCEC Distinguished Engineering Merit Award (2018), the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award (2020), and the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award (2026). Three of his papers have been recognized as Most Influential Papers (“test of time” awards), by the ICSE 2008 and SEAMS 2020 conferences, as well in 2025 by the IEEE TSE journal. His papers have also been recognized with several “Best Paper” and “Most Cited Paper” awards. Medvidović is a Fellow of the ACM, AAIS, and IEEE. 

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