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Michael L. Collard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Polymer Science

The University of Akron

Akron, Ohio 44325

Office Arts & Sciences (CAS) 228

Mailbox Arts & Sciences (CAS) 221

Fax (330) 374-8630

Phone (330) 972-7191

Email collard@uakron.edu

Fall 2025

CPSC 480-010Software Engineering (SE) 9:15 am - 10:30 am T R Arts & Sciences 134
CPSC 480-020Software Engineering (SE) 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm T R Arts & Sciences 134
CPSC 680-010Software Engineering Methodologies (SEM) 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm T R Arts & Sciences 134

Spring 2025

CPSC 421-010Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 9:15 am - 10:30 am T R Arts & Sciences 136
CPSC 689-010Software Ecosystems (SECO) 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm T R Arts & Sciences 134
CPSC 421-020Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm T R Arts & Sciences 144

Activities

Behler, J.A.C., Al-Ramadan, A.F., Baheri, B., Collard, M.L., Guan, Q., Maletic, J.I., Static Analysis and Transformation for Quantum Programming Languages, IEEE Software, To appear 8 pages, July, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2025.3566634
Awarded Most Influential Paper (MIP) at the 21st IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'21) to Michael L. Collard, Michael J. Decker and Jonathan I. Maletic for the SCAM 2011 paper "Lightweight Transformation and Fact Extraction with the srcML Toolkit". Dr. Michael Decker was a graduate student at The University of Akron when this paper was published. Award
Awarded a $652K grant in July 2020 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with Dr. Jonathan Maletic from Kent State University ($255K UA and $398K KSU). The CCRI (CNS 20-16465/16452) award is entitled "ENS: Collaborative Research: Expanding Language Support for the srcML Infrastructure".
Mining Software Repositories Foundational Contribution Award 2020 Michael L. Collard and Jonathan I. Maletic - for work developing the srcML Infrastructure "which addresses many hard problems in source code parsing and has fostered a wide range of research innovations throughout software engineering" Award, Presentation
Tool Demonstrations Co-Chair - 35th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'19), Sep 30 - Oct 4, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio
Journal Publication: "srcDiff: A syntactic differencing approach to improve the understandability of deltas" in Journal of Software Evolution and Process, Oct 21, 2019, DOI 10.1002/smr.2226
"A task oriented view of software visualization" by J. I. Maletic, A. Marcus and M. L. Collard, (VISSOFT'02) was awarded a Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award at the 2017, 5th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT'17) Sep 18-19, 2017 in Shanghai, China.
Finance Chair - 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'16), Oct 2-9, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina
General Chair - 24th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'16), May 16-17, 2016 in Austin TX. Co-located with ICSE'16
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