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Diomidis Spinellis

Diomidis Spinellis is a professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece. His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and programming languages. He has written two award-winning, widely translated books, Code Reading (2003) and Code Quality (2006), both published by Addison-Wesley. He served for a decade as a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, authoring the “Tools of the Trade” column, and since January 2015 is serving as the editor-in-chief. He has contributed code that ships with OS X and BSD Unix, and is the developer of UMLGraph, CScout, and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. He holds an MEng in software engineering and a PhD in computer science, both from Imperial College London. Dr. Spinellis is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.