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Professor and Associate Dean

Jens H Weber

Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering and CS, University of Victoria

About

About ME

I am a Professor and the Associate Dean Professional Programs at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada (since 1999). I teach and conduct research in the area of Software Engineering with a focus on safety and security. I am also affiliated with the School of Health Information Science and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. I am practicing as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng,) with license in British Columbia. My doctoral degree is from the University of Paderborn (Germany).

Blog

NEws

News about publications, projects and activities I am involved in.

Shakil Choudhury’s keynote on Deep Diversity

This keynote was given as part of UVic's 5 days of action this Fall. It's excellent and helped me reflect on equity, inclusivity and diversity issues, biases and opportunities. Well worth viewing. Unfortunately, its recording may be accessible to the university...

Research

Research PROJECTS

Grape Vine

Tool Support for Functional Graph Transformations

Information Security and Trust

With Focus on Assurance

Information SYSTEM HAZARD ANALYSIS

Focus on Safe Interoperability

Medical Device Software

With Focus on Certification

Courses (Current and Upcoming)

Security Engineering

Fall 2024

Security Engineering is about building systems to remain secure in the face of malice, error or mischance. The objective of this course is to introduce students to a broad range of topics related to this discipline.

Software Architecture and Design

Fall 2022

An introduction to analysis and design of software architectures and their subsequent synthesis at the program level. 

Topics in Software Engineering – Formal Methods

Spring 2023

Formal methods are mathematically-based methods used in software engineering. The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to formal methods and their role in assuring software properties. 

Service

Recent Service

I am currently serving a second term on the Board of Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC) as well as on the Software Engineering Advisory Group at EGBC. Before this, I served for five years on the Board of the OSCAR EMR BC User Society. I served as General Co-Chair for the IEEE Int. Conference on Health Informatics in 2021. I was the Chair of the Academic Integrity Committee in the Department of Computer Science for seven years. At the University, I serve as the Associate Dean for Professional Programs and development. In prior roles, I served as Acting Associate Dean in 2021 for six months and as Director of the Software Engineering degree program from 2007-2014.

Address

Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria
ECS Building, Room 504 (secretary), Room 616 (office)
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC

 

Canada V8W 2Y2

jens@acm.org

Office: +1 250 721 8797
Cell: +1 250 508 3130
Fax: +1 250 472 5708