Shang-Wen Cheng (鄭上玟)

Greetings and welcome to my homepage!

I am currently an Engineering Applications Software Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with the flight software team on the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) low-earth orbiter satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in 2015. The SMAP mission satellite will monitor soil moisture around the globe to improve weather, climate, and flood predictions.

The decade spanning 2000--2009 marks my apprenticeship as a software engineer, in which I worked under the tutelage of Professor David Garlan in his Architecture Based Languages and Environments (ABLE) research group in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). I started the Ph.D. program at CMU in 2000, proposed my thesis in June 2004, defended my thesis on April 18, 2008, and graduated in May 2008. Here's my thesis document. During those years, I worked closely with Bradley Schmerl. Along the way, My housemate and good friend George Fairbanks helped me tremendously and set a great example for me and fellow SE-PhDers. In the final lap to the finish line, Vahe Poladian and I spent countless thesis-writing hours together for mutual support. After earning my Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the SCS Institute for Software Research (ISR), I spent another year as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Garlan.

My general computing interests have spanned architecture, design, and infrastructure management, and I have done research in self-healing systems, software architecture, design tools, and integration of security in architectural designs.

This Wiki was put in place to simplify management, but some contents remained on my old Drupal site. Site index links appear on the right, and also featured are

• Crystal Cheng's blog site, the Gourmet Scientist

• The RainbowWiki I maintain about my research on self-adaptive systems

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