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William Agresti Faculty Bio

Bill Agresti

William Agresti, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Professional Programs

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 234-9403
Fax: (410) 234-9439
agresti@jhu.edu
Web Site: https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/wagrest1/web/home.htm

William W. Agresti, PhD (Computer Science, New York University), joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2000.  He is a Professor in the practice track with expertise in information systems and large-scale project management.

Honors and Distinctions

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association
  • NSF Director’s Award, National Science Foundation
  • NASA Group Achievement Award
  • Editorial Board, Expert Systems with Applications
  • Area Editor for Software Management, Encyclopedia of Software Engineering
  • Recent Editorial Boards: Information Systems Security, Empirical Software Engineering
  • Six best paper awards and over 100 publications in software engineering and management
  • Program Director, Experimental Software Systems Research, NSF, CISE Directorate
  • Chief Scientist and Division Director in computer industry
  • Consultant to DARPA, Ford, GE, IBM
  • Co-founder and Principal, Alternative Information Systems, Inc.

Selected Publications

  • Toward an IT agenda (2011). Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 28(1), 255-276.
  • Software reuse: developers' experiences and perceptions (2011). J. of Software Engineering & Applications, 4(1), 48-58.
  • The four forces shaping cybersecurity (2010). IEEE Computer, 42(2), 101-104.
  • Models for improving software system size during development (2010) (with W. Evanco and W. Thomas). J. of Software Engineering & Applications, (3(1), 1-10.
  • Practical profiles for managing systems engineering R&D (2009) (with R. Harris). IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 56, 341-351.
  • Older drivers and accidents: A meta analysis and data mining application on traffic accident data (2005) (with E. Bayam and J. Liebowitz). Expert Systems with Applications, 29(3), 598-629.
  • Discovery informatics (2003). Communications of the ACM, 46(8), 25-28.
  • Knowledge management (2000). Advances in Computers, 53, 171-283.
  • Projecting software defects from analyzing Ada designs (1992) (with W. Evanco). IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 18(11), 988-997.

Works in Progress

  • Kohonen network data mining for severity patterns in work zone traffic accidents

Teaching Interests

  • Project Management for Information Systems
  • Data Mining and Discovery Informatics
  • Economics of Information Security