Bran Selic

Research Director, Zeligsoft, Canada

Bran Selic is currently President of Malina Software Corp. and also Director of Advanced Technology at Zeligsoft Limited. In 2007, Bran retired from IBM Canada, where he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the strategic direction of IBM’s software development tools. In addition, Bran is an adjunct professor of computer science at both the University of Toronto and at Carleton University in Canada. He has over 38 years of practical industrial experience in designing and implementing large-scale software systems and has pioneered the application of model-based methods in real-time and embedded applications. In the past decade, Bran has led several international standards efforts related to modeling technologies, including the widely used UML 2 modeling language standard. A frequent keynote speaker at various technical events, he is on the editorial board of two major scientific journals and has served as general and technical program chair of a number of technical conferences.