Steve Easterbrook
Steve Easterbrook is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College in London (UK), in 1991, on the topic of requirements negotiation for complex socio-technical systems analysis. His first faculty position was at the School of Cognitive and Computing Science, University of Sussex, where he co-designed and was the first course director for a new degree program in Human-Centered Software Design. In 1995 he moved to the US to lead the research team at NASA´s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in West Virginia, where he investigated software verification on the Space Shuttle Flight Software, the International Space Station, the Earth Observation System, and several planetary probes. He moved to the University of Toronto in 1999, where he now teaches courses in empirical research methods, software engineering, and requirements analysis.

Steve's research interests range from modelling and analysis of complex software software systems to the socio-cognitive aspects of team interaction, including communication, coordination, and shared understanding in large software teams. His research contributions include formal modeling of disagreement and inconsistency, including work on non-classical logics for reasoning about inconsistency; conceptual modeling of multiple viewpoints, and empirical research methodology in software engineering, including the role of replication, mixed method research and benchmarking. Since 2006, he has been developing a new research program in Climate Change Informatics, to explore how ideas from systems analysis and computational thinking can be applied to meet the many challenges posed by global warming.

Steve has served on the program committees for many conferences and workshops in Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering. He was general chair for the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering in 2001, and program chair for IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering in 2006. In the summer of 2008, he was a visiting scientist at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.