Rate My Professor Devon Simmonds

Dr. Devon M. Simmonds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, having advanced to this position in August 2013 after serving as Assistant Professor from August 2006 to July 2013. His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado State University in 2007, with a dissertation titled "Transforming UML Class Models"; a Master of Science in Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1995; a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Technology, Jamaica, in 1999; and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Studies from the University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica, in 1989. Prior to his role at UNCW, Dr. Simmonds was a Lecturer in the School of Computing & Information Technology at the University of Technology, Jamaica, from 1989 to 2000, a part-time Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of the West Indies (Mona) in 1999, and an Instructor and Teaching Assistant in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University from 2000 to 2005.

Dr. Simmonds' research focuses on software engineering, particularly the analysis and evaluation of software architectures, the development, testing, and evaluation of aspect-oriented software systems, the application of aspect-oriented techniques to distributed systems, model-driven software engineering, model transformations, and code generation from design models. He has led the Software Lab at UNCW, a facility designed to support the engineering of real software for clients beyond the university community. His publications include over twenty peer-reviewed papers and his doctoral dissertation. Key works are "Principles of Programming Paradigm Evolution" in IEEE Computer (2012), "Developing Distributed Services Using an Aspect Oriented Model Driven Framework" in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (2006), "A Directive-Based Transformation Approach for UML Class Diagrams" and "Metrics for Migrating Distributed Applications" (both SERP 2015), "Complexity and the Engineering of Bug-Free Software" (FECS 2018), "A Case Study in the Model-Driven Development of CorkBoard" (SERP 2013), "Exploring Model-Based Design" (ITNG 2012), "ClipBits - A Case Study in Model-Driven Software Engineering" (SERP 2012), and "BIOBase: An Adaptable Biometric Tool and Database" (BIOCOMP 2014). These contributions appear in conferences with acceptance rates of 25-40%, highlighting his influence in model-driven and aspect-oriented software development.