Eric Yu

Biography

Eric Yu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and was appointed to the Faculty of Information in 1995. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previous to his career in academia he held positions in hardware, software, and services development at Bell and Nortel laboratories in Ottawa. Professor Yu is co-editor for the MIT Press monograph series on Information Systems. He serves on the editorial boards of Requirements Engineering journal, the International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering, IET Software, and the Journal of Data Semantics. He is an associate editor for the International Journal of Information Systems Modeling and Design. He was Program Co-chair for the 27th and 33rd International Conferences on Conceptual Modeling (ER’08, ER’14). Eric Yu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and was appointed to the Faculty of Information in 1995. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previous to his career in academia he held positions in hardware, software, and services development at Bell and Nortel laboratories in Ottawa. Professor Yu is co-editor for the MIT Press monograph series on Information Systems. He serves on the editorial boards of Requirements Engineering journal, the International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering, IET Software, and the Journal of Data Semantics. He is an associate editor for the International Journal of Information Systems Modeling and Design. He was Program Co-chair for the 27th and 33rd International Conferences on Conceptual Modeling (ER’08, ER’14).

Research Interest

Professor Yu’s research interests lie in the areas of information systems analysis and design, software requirements engineering, knowledge management, and in particular the modelling of technology systems and their social contexts. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers and several books. His article “Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering” in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Int. Symposium on Requirements Engineering (1997) received the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2007 Requirements Engineering Conference. His doctoral dissertation, which introduced the ‘i*’ framework for modeling and analyzing strategic actor relationships was published in Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering (MIT Press, 2011). That volume includes eighteen chapters authored by researchers from around the world who have applied, adapted, or extended the i* framework in various ways, and for diverse application contexts, ranging from business processes to knowledge management to air traffic control and from information security to software development. The i* framework is the basis for GRL, the Goal-oriented Requirements Language, which together with the scenario-modeling notation UCM, constitute the international standard ITU-T Z.151. Professor Yu’s research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.