Porter Appointed Executive Director of Fraunhofer CESE

Tue Jun 23, 2015

Adam Porter, a professor of computer science with an appointment in UMIACS, has been named executive director of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software and Engineering (CESE), effective July 1.

He has previously served as Acting Director for Public Relations and University Projects at Fraunhofer CESE, a UMD affiliated applied research center that focuses on helping its customers build and maintain the software that increasingly underlies most innovation, and as a research fellow for the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Germany.

Porter was also recently honored with the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Board of Visitors’ (BOV) Creative Educator award in recognition of his innovations in education.