Dr. Chris F. Kemerer is the David M. Roderick Professor of Information Systems at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.  Previously, he was an Associate Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. 

He received the B.S. degree magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation topic was “Measurement of Software Development Productivity”.

His current research interests include management and measurement issues in information systems and software engineering, and he has published more than fifty articles on these topics in a number of professional and academic journals, including Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, and others, as well as editing two books.  He has been invited to address audiences in a dozen different countries and numerous cities throughout the United States. 

He is a former Principal of American Management Systems Inc., the Washington, DC area-based software development and consulting firm where he designed, developed and managed software projects for a variety of public and private sector clients.  He continues to serve industry in a variety of roles, including consulting, executive education, and expert testimony. 

Dr. Kemerer serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Annals of Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, the Journal of Software Quality, and MIS Quarterly, and is a member of INFORMS, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society.  He is a past Departmental Editor for Information Systems at Management Science, and the immediate past Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research.