Associate Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering and Polymer Science
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
- ACM Author Bibliometrics