Leyna Cotran (lccotran) | ICS Dept

   Leyna Cotran

   lccotran [at] ics [dot] uci [dot] edu

   Office: Bren Hall ICS 5209

I am a graduate student in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. My advisor is Dr. Richard Taylor. I received my BS in Computer Science from Purdue University. I received my MS in Software Engineering from Santa Clara University.

General Interests: Software Systems Development

My general interests center around the design, construction, and analysis of novel software intensive systems.

Research Focus: Software Development Techniques, Requirements Engineering

My research focuses on the development of requirements for large software-intensive systems, mainly with aerospace products.

Teaching

I am currently not a TA for any course this fall.

Current Research Projects

I have worked and completed a few projects at UCI, namely:

Agile Case Study: Adding Agile to an Embedded Systems Project (see Publications link)
Programming Expertise Study

Collaborators

I have had the opportunity to work with:

Dr. Susan Elliott Sim and the Galen Lab
Dr. John Noll, my Masters supervisor from Santa Clara University
Dr. Ban Al-Ani at UCI

I am also a member of the Institute of Software Research here at UCI.

Publications, Conferences, Workshops, and Presentations

Adding Agile to an Embedded Systems Project, co-authored with Susan Elliott Sim and John Noll. Presented at the Symposium for Graduate Students (SGR) at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. March 2008.

"The Realities of Software Development with Aerospace Products", annual guest lecture for mechanical engineering course at Santa Clara University. Material authorized for public use, please email me for slides.

Institute of Software Research Graduate Student Research Symposium, June 2007. Organizing Committee Member.

Institute of Software Research Graduate Student Research Symposium, June 2006. Program Committee Member.

NATO Research Forum, October 2005. French/English Translator

"A Wireless Data Network Tested", 2001. Cotran, L. GE Fellowship from the School of Science, Purdue University. Faculty advisor: Dr. Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, Computer Science Department

Mailing Address

Leyna Cotran, PhD Student
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Department of Informatics
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425