Kevin Gary

Associate Professor, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Kevin Gary is an associate professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.He joined ASU in 2004 after working in industry and a prior appointment on the faculty of the Catholic University of America. He serves on the program faculty for the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in software engineering at ASU, and is a former Program Chair for Software Engineering.

His research interests are in software agility and open source software, and applications in healthcare and e-learning. He most recent work examines agile impact on software regression testing, and what lean flow metrics can tell us about open source software. He is also very active in software engineering education research.

In healthcare, in the past he has developed several mobile health (mHealth) applications for chronic pediatric conditions including anxiety, sickle cell disease, asthma, and epilepsy. In this work he has applied principles of agile science and AI to just-in-time adaptive interventions. In eLearning, he has design. built, and reviewed web and mobile platforms for personalized and adaptive assessment and microinterventions, some of which are applied to his software engineering education research.

Dr. Gary is a motivated educator, acting on beliefs that higher education needs to be agile and respond to dynamic changes in educational settings (new technical processes and industry expectations, new pedagogical methods, a changing student population and more). He created the Software Enterprise at ASU, an active learning cycle approach to applied software engineering education. The Software Enterprise forms the core professional spine within the bachelor and master of science degree programs in software engineering at ASU, and in 2011 he was part of team to receive the President's Award for Innovation from ASU President Michael Crow. He is engaged in service to the profession and to ASU, reviewing for several established journals, serving on conference program committees, and spending a year as the Associate Chair of computing programs on the Polytechnic Campus. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and ASEE.