Girish Suryanarayana is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Research and Technology Center, Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India. At Siemens, he is involved in providing architectural guidance to software development teams, pursuing research in topics related to software architecture and cloud computing, and conducting internal software design and architecture training. Girish is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory Board and is the General Chair for the IEEE Software Experts Summit 2014 conference. He actively contributes to software engineering conferences. In 2013, he was on the program committee for the Software Engineering In Practice (SEIP) track at the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Girish received a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2007. His research interests include software architecture, design patterns, design smells, refactoring, cloud computing, and reputation-based trust management systems. He is an IEEE-certified Software Engineering Certified Instructor (SECI) and regularly conducts training for the IEEE SWEBOK Certificate Program (SCP) and IEEE Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) programs. He has also helped contribute course material for the IEEE’s SWEBOK Certificate Program (SCP). He is regularly invited by local universities to deliver guest lectures on software architecture and design topics. Additionally, he is the General Chair for IEEE SES (Software Expert Summit) 2014 which is being organized by IEEE Software.
