Kyle J. Strasser

Contact Info

• Email: kstrasse AT uci DOT edu
• AIM: kylejstrasser
• Office: Donald Bren Hall 5209

Last Update: 2 October 2009

About me

I'm a grad student at the University of California, Irvine Department of Informatics and a member of the Institute for Software Research. My advisor is Dr. Richard Taylor. I'm interested in software design and architecture, especially software architectural styles for decentralized, distributed, highly dynamic applications. My other research interests domain-oriented design environments and software engineering pedagogy.

Current Activity

• Class: Informatics 295 + sitting in on CS 132
• Finishing NSF GRFP application
• Phase II preparation
• CREST review and research

Teaching

• Summer 2009: TA, Informatics 101 / CS 141 / CSE 141: Concepts of Programming Languages, Alex Thornton
• Spring 2009: Reader, Informatics 43: Informatics Core III, Alex Thornton
• Spring 2009: Reader, Informatics 117: Project in Software Systems Design, André van der Hoek
• Winter 2009: Reader, Informatics 122: Software Design II, André van der Hoek
• Fall 2008: Reader, Informatics 41: Intro to Informatics, David Kay

Classes

• Fall 2009
  • Informatics 295: Environmental Issues in Information Technology, Bill Tomlinson
• Spring 2009
  • Informatics 233: Applied Software Design Techniques, André van der Hoek
  • Informatics 242: Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, Paul Dourish
• Winter 2009
  • Informatics 221: Software Architecture, Richard Taylor
  • Informatics 241: Ubiquitous Computing, Don Patterson
  • Informatics 261: Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, Gary Olson
• Fall 2008
  • Informatics 201: Research Methods in Informatics, Gillian Hayes
  • Informatics 211: Software Engineering, James A. Jones
  • Informatics 231B: Human-Computer Interaction, Paul Dourish

Conferences & Workshops Attended

• Software Architecture Challenges in the 21st Century, June 8, 2009
• ISR Research Forum, UCI, June 5, 2009
• 2009 Ground Systems Architectural Workshop, working group on Architecture-Centric Evolution, March 25, 2009

Other Stuff

• Media interests: modernist and contemporary classical; free jazz and free improvisation/eai; ambient, drone and surrealist sound collage; disco. French new wave and Italian spaghetti westerns (I'm amassing a collection!).
• I've got two cats, Sebastian and Amelia, and a girlfriend of 4 years, Sara.