Interests and Research lines:

Research Group:

• TICSw-Tecnologías de Información y Construcción de Software

 

Education

Degree	Discipline	Institution	Year
Ph.D	Software Engineering	Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France	1996
Specialist Information Systems	Software Engineering	Universidad de los Andes	1987
B.Sc	Systems and Computing Engineering	Universidad de los Andes	1985

 

Academic experience

Institution	Rank	Tittle (chair, coordinator, etc.)	When (ex. 1995-1997)	Full time or part-time
Universidad de los Andes	Full Professor	Coordinator Software Engineering Master	2012-Present	FT
Universidad de los Andes	Associate Professor	Vicedean of graduate studies and research of the School of Engineering	2010-2012	FT
Universidad de los Andes	Associate Professor	Coordinator Software Engineering Specialization	2002-2010	FT
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA	Assistant Professor	—	2000-2002	FT
Universidad de los Andes	Associate Professor	Coordinator Software Engineering Specialization	1998-2000	FT

 

Non-academic experience

Company or entity	Title	Brief description of position	When (ex. 1995-1997)	Full time or part-time
LSR Laboratory, Grenoble	Researcher at the Adele Team	—	1990-1996	FT
IC Ingenieros Consultores, Bogotá	Software Developer	—	1985-1987	FT

 

Certifications or professional registrations

Colombia, Professional Card

 

Current membership in professional organizations

1. ACM member
2. Computation Colombian Society

 

Honors and awards

1. Project CUPI2 – Informatics Colombian Award, Colombian Association of Systems Engineers – 2007

 

Service activities (within and outside of the institutions)

 

Member of the Program committee of the following International Conferences:

#        Acronym        Name

1          BigMDE 2017  5th BigMDE Workshop

2          12CCC 12mo Congreso Colombiano de Computación

3          TTC 2017        10th Transformation Tool Contest

4          ICWE2017       17th International Conference on Web Engineering

5          ICMT 2017      10th International Conference on Model Transformation

6          ICSME – Industry ’16    32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution — Industry Track

7          11CCC 11 Congreso Colombiano de Computación

8          BigMDE16       4st Workshop on Scalable Model Driven Engineering

9          SCTC 2016      IV Simposio Científico y Tecnológico en Computación

10        ICMT 2016      9th International Conference on Model Transformation

11        10CCC 10 Congreso Colombiano de Computación

12        bigmde15         3rd Workshop on Scalable Model Driven Engineering (BigMDE)

13        ICMT 2015      8th International Conference on Model Transformation

14        TTC 2015        8th Transformation Tool Contest

15        SER&IP2015   2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practices

16        REVASOFT 2014        1er Foro de Gestión de la Reutilización y la Variabilidad en la Industria de Software

17        9ccc     Noveno Congreso Colombiano de Computación

18        MultiPLE 2014 Second International Workshop on Multi Product Line Engineering

19        CLEI 2014       XL Conferencia Latinoamericana en Informática

20        TTC 2014        7th Transformation Tool Contest

21        DSM’13           The 13th Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling

22        MultiPLE2013 Multi Product Line Engineering

 

List of the most important publications and presentations from the past five years

[1] Jaime Chavarriaga, Carlos Noguera, Rubby Casallas, and Viviane Jonckers. Managing tradeoffs among architectural tactics using feature models and feature-solution graphs. In Computing Colombian Conference (10CCC), 2015 10th, pages 124–132. IEEE, 2015.

[2] Jaime Chavarriaga, Carlos Rangel, Carlos Noguera, Rubby Casallas, and Viviane Jonckers. Using multiple feature models to specify configuration options for electrical transformers: an experience report. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Product Line, pages 216–224. ACM, 2015.

[3] Daniel Escobar, Diana Cárdenas, Rolando Amarillo, Eddie Castro, Kelly Garcés, Carlos Parra, and Rubby Casallas. Towards the understanding and evolution of monolithic applications as microservices. In Computing Conference (CLEI), 2016 XLII Latin American, pages 1–11. IEEE, 2016.

[4] Kelly Garcés, Rubby Casallas, Camilo Alvarez, Edgar Sandoval, Alejandro Salamanca, Fabi´an ´ Melo, and Juan Manuel Soto. White-box modernization of legacy applications. In International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, pages 274–287. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

[5] Kelly Garces, Edgar Sandoval, Rubby Casallas, Camilo Alvarez, Alejandro Salamanca, Sandra Pinto, and Fabian Melo. Aiming towards modernization: visualization to assist structural understanding of oracle forms applications, 2015.

[6] Paola Gómez, Rubby Casallas, and Claudia Roncancio. Data schema does matter, even in nosql systems! In Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2016 IEEE Tenth International Conference on, pages 1–6. IEEE, 2016.

[7] Rubby Casalla Camil´o Alvarez Alejandro Salamanca Sandra Pinto Fabian Melo Kelly Garcés, Edgar Sandoval. Aiming towards modernization: Visualization to assist structural understanding of oracle forms applications. In The Tenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances ICSEA 2015, 2015.

[8] Kevin S´anchez, Kelly Garcés, and Rubby Casallas. A dsl for rapid prototyping of crossplatform tower defense games. In Computing Colombian Conference (10CCC), 2015 10th, pages 93–99. IEEE, 2015.

[9] Mauricio Verano, Lorena Salamanca, Mario Villamizar, Oscar Garces, Angee Zambrano, Carlos Valencia, Rubby Casallas, Lina Ochoa, Harold Castro, and Santiago Gil. Re-architecting a jee on-premise web application to deploy it in the cloud. In Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2015 IEEE, pages 1–7. IEEE, 2015.

[10] Mario Villamizar, Oscar Garcés, Harold Castro, Mauricio Verano, Lorena Salamanca, Rubby Casallas, and Santiago Gil. Evaluating the monolithic and the microservice architecture pattern to deploy web applications in the cloud. In Computing Colombian Conference (10CCC), 2015 10th, pages 583–590. IEEE, 2015.

[11] Mario Villamizar, Oscar Garcés, Lina Ochoa, Harold Castro, Lorena Salamanca, Mauricio Verano, Rubby Casallas, Santiago Gil, Carlos Valencia, Angee Zambrano, et al. Infrastructure cost comparison of running web applications in the cloud using aws lambda and monolithic and microservice architectures. In Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on, pages 179–182. IEEE, 2016.

[12] Mario Villamizar, Oscar Garcés, Lina Ochoa, Harold Castro, Lorena Salamanca, Mauricio Verano, Rubby Casallas, Santiago Gil, Carlos Valencia, Angee Zambrano, et al. Cost comparison of running web applications in the cloud using monolithic, microservice, and a

 

List the most recent professional development activities

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[1] “Design and Implementation of a Data warehouse to manage the information of the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia.”. José Abásolo, Rubby Casallas, Cesar Forero, Cindy Hernandez. Unidad de Víctimas. 2015-2017

 

Percentage of time available for research or scholarly activities

Teaching 40%, Research 30% and Curricular Committee 30%.

 

Percentage of time committed to the program

100% (Full Time)