Brian S. Mitchell received the ME degree (1995) in computer engineering from Widener University and the MS degree (1997) and the PhD degree (2002) in computer science from Drexel University. He has more than 15 years of technical and leadership experience in the software industry. He is currently a research associate and a member of the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at Drexel University. He is also an enterprise architect at CIGNA Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he works as a lead software engineer on enterprise strategic initiatives. His interests include software architecture, reverse engineering, program understanding, software security, and computer architecture. He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society and has served as a program committee member for several IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and industry conferences. He is a member of the organizing committee for the 2006 IEEE ICSM conference.