Nenad Medvidović, PhD

Nenad Medvidović holds the position of Professor and Department Chair in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). Additionally, he contributes as a Professor to the Informatics Program at USC and collaborates with the Institute for Software Research at the University of California, Irvine as a faculty associate.

He founded the SoftArch Laboratory at USC and has held notable administrative roles, including the Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering from 2009 to 2013, the Vice-Chair for Tenure Affairs during 2021-2022, and the Associate Chair for Ph.D. Affairs from 2011 to 2015 within the Computer Science Department at USC.

Currently, Medvidović serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. His leadership roles have included chairing the ACM Software System Award Committee from 2021 to 2022, the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) from 2015 to 2018, and the Steering Committees for both the International Conference on Software Engineering (2013-2015) and the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (2015-2017). He also co-chaired the Program for ICSE 2011.

Medvidović’s research focuses on architecture-based software development, with particular interest in event-based systems, and the maintenance, recovery, and evolution of software architectures. His work also explores middleware solutions for software architecture implementation, domain-specific architectures, and various architectural styles and patterns. Additionally, he studies the architectures of distributed, decentralized, mobile, and resource-constrained systems, including embedded systems. His recent projects involve enhancing mobile application testing through architectural insights.

Summary of Qualifications

Internationally known in the computer science research community for his extensive scientific contributions in the fields of software engineering and distributed systems over the last two decades.
Has been deposed and testified at trial numerous times, primarily in patent infringement cases.
Has authored hundreds of scholarly works, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, magazine articles, and other publications.
Has received millions of dollars in grants from corporations and government agencies for scientific research.
Has taught dozens of software classes and seminars at universities, companies, and government agencies.
Received the National Science Foundation CAREER (2000) award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), and the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010).
Served as Program Co-Chair of the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011).
Co-authored the ICSE 1998 paper titled “Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution,” which was recognized as that conference’s Most Influential Paper.
Co-authored “A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages,” which was the single most-cited journal article in software engineering published in 2000.
Co-authored “Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice,” a widely-used textbook on software architectures, and has edited several other books.
Member of ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.
Received his Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine in 1999.

Areas of Expertise

Software architecture
Architectural styles (client-server, P2P, pub-sub), software connectors (IPC mechanisms, FTP, SOAP), deployment architectures, systems engineering, systems-of-systems, run-time adaptation, self-managing systems, reliability estimation, quality-of-service properties
Engineering and design processes
Requirements engineering (elicitation, specification, evolution), design and development paradigms (waterfall, spiral, agile), COTS integration, component-based development, design patterns, cost estimation, domain-specific software engineering, architecture recovery, model checking, modeling and simulation
Distributed systems
Web applications (Apache, Python, PHP, REST), cloud computing, grid systems, decentralized computing (MapReduce, tile assembly model), email (IMAP, POP, SMTP), encryption (TLS, SSL, SSH), network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP), data distribution and storage (RDBMS, SQL), ultra-large-scale systems
Languages, platforms, and frameworks
Operating systems (UNIX, Linux, Windows, Mac OS), middleware (CORBA, Java EE, .NET), object-oriented languages (Java, C/C++), development frameworks and compilers (Eclipse, Visual Studio), aspect-oriented languages, architecture description languages (UML, AADL, DSLs)
Mobile, handheld, and wireless systems
Smartphones and tablets (Android, iOS, Java ME, Brew), disconnected operation, energy consumption estimation, unmanned autonomous systems, embedded real-time systems, resource-constrained computing

Litigation Consulting

IPA Technologies, Inc v. Microsoft Corp. | Oct 2022–May 2024
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Case Number: 1:18-cv-00001
Counsel: Skiermont Derby LLP
Nature of Suit: Patent
Intellectual Ventures, LLC v. AT&T Mobility, LLC
Intellectual Ventures, LLC v. T-Mobile USA, Inc
Intellectual Ventures, LLC v. Nextel Operations, Inc
Intellectual Ventures, LLC v. United States Cellular Corporation | Oct 2013–May 2015
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Case Number: 1:12-cv-00193, 1:13-cv-01631, 1:13-cv-01636, 1:13-cv-01637,
1:13-cv-01634, 1:13-cv-01635, 1:13-cv-01632, 1:13-cv-01633
Counsel: Dechert LLP
Nature of Suit: Patent
Front Row Technologies, LLC v. NBA Media Ventures, LLC | Oct 2013–July 2016
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
Case Number: 1:13-cv-01153
Counsel: Shore Chan DePumpo LLP
Nature of Suit: Patent
In the Matter of Certain Electronic Imaging Devices | Oct 2012–Mar 2013
Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission
Counsel: Goodwin Procter LLP
Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property–Patent
Flashpoint Technology, Inc v. ZTE Corporation | Aug 2012–Mar 2013
Jurisdiction: U.S District Court for the District of Delaware
Case Number: 12-cv-00649
Counsel: Goodwin Procter LLP
Nature of Suit: Patent
Finjan Inc v. Symantec Corp. | Mar 2012–Dec 2012
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property–Patent
Finjan Inc v. Websense, Inc | Sept 2011–Dec 2012
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property–Patent
j2 Global Communications Inc v.
Easylink Services International Corp. | Apr 2011–Dec 2012
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Counsel: King & Spalding LLP (until 10/12) and Perkins Coie LLP (since 10/12)
Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property–Patent
Gabriel Technologies Corp. and Trace Technologies LLC v.
Qualcomm Inc, Snaptrack Inc, and Norman Krasner | Oct 2010–Sept 2012
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Counsel: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
Inter Partes Reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 7,366,919 | Sept 2011–Dec 2011
Jurisdiction: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property–Patent
Marla Tidenberg v. Bidz.com Inc | Jun 2009–Apr 2010
Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Counsel: Gordon & Rees LLP
Nature of Suit: Class Action

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