Adriaan W. van der Hoek
Biography
Adriaan W. van der Hoek, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on software design and software engineering tools, with particular attention to how developers think, collaborate, and create during the design process. He is the author of Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think (MIT Press, 2016), co-authored with Marian Petre, and has co-edited two additional volumes on software design and collaborative software engineering.
Van der Hoek has served in a range of leadership roles in his field, including as Program Chair of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2010) and Program Co-Chair of the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014). He served on the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Software Engineering from 2012 to 2017 and as Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal on Software Engineering Research and Development from 2012 to 2020. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001.
Van der Hoek has been the principal investigator or lead principal investigator on numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and industry partners, with total funding exceeding several million dollars. He has supervised more than a dozen Ph.D. students to completion at UC Irvine and has served on dissertation committees at institutions across North America, Europe, and beyond. He served as Chair of the Department of Informatics from 2011 to 2021.
Return to topEducation
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1999
- Master and Bachelor of Science in Business-Oriented Computer Science, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1994
Distinctions
- NSF CAREER Award – Continuous Configuration Management of Component-Based Software, 2001
- ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2013
- Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, 2009
- UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Dean's Award for Graduate Mentoring, 2010
- UCI Division of Undergraduate Education Professor of the Year, 2005
- UCI Division of Undergraduate Education Award for Teaching Excellence, 2005
- UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Outstanding Graduate Mentor, 2004
- UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 2002
- UCI Division of Undergraduate Education Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
- UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Faculty Mentor of the Month, 2013
Areas of Expertise
- Software Engineering
- Software Architecture Design
- Configuration Management Systems
- Educational Simulation Games
- Generative AI Developer Creativity
- Remote Team Collaboration Tools
- Developer Mental Wellbeing
Recent Publications
- De Souza Campos H., De Menezes G.G.L., De Oliveira Barros M., Van der Hoek A., Gresta Paulino Murta L., “Towards a Feasible Evaluation Function for Search-Based Merge Conflict Resolution” (opens in new tab), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 35, 2026.
- V. Jackson, B. Vasilescu, D. Russo, P. Ralph, R. Prikladnicki, M. Izadi, S. D'Angelo, S. Inman, A. Andrade, A. van der Hoek, “The Impact of Generative AI on Creativity in Software Development: A Research Agenda” (opens in new tab), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1–28, 2025.
- H. Freedman, A. Agha Kouchak, A.J. Rigden, A. van der Hoek, Bill Tomlinson, “Disparities in the Impact of Drought on Agriculture across Countries”, Scientific Reports, vol. 15, pp. article 13465, 2025.
- A. Deshpande, A. van der Hoek, “Visualizing Team Progress and Contributions in Student Projects with TeamCAST” (opens in new tab), Software Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, pp. 382–393, 2025. Presented at International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, April 2025.
- Y. Lu, A. van der Hoek, “Visualizing Frequent Peer Assessment Results to Uncover Problems in Team Dynamics” (opens in new tab), Software Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, pp. 365–375, 2025. Presented at International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, April 2025.
- V. Jackson, A. van der Hoek, R. Prikladnicki, Kuldeep Singh, “Introduction to the Special Issue on Creativity in Software Engineering” (opens in new tab), IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 27–32, 2025.
- Freedman H., Rigden A.J., van der Hoek A., Tomlinson B., “The climate econometrics toolkit” (opens in new tab), Ecological Informatics, vol. 92, 2025.
- A. de Andrade, V. Jackson, R. Prikladnicki, A. van der Hoek, “On Meetings Involving Remote Software Teams: A Systematic Literature Review” (opens in new tab), Information and Software Technology, vol. 175, 2024.
- H. de Campos, G. Ghiotto, M. Barros, A. van der Hoek, L. Murta, “How Code Composition Strategies Affect Merge Resolution?”, Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2024.
- Y. Cai, M. Chaudron, E. Kang, A. van der Hoek, “Report on the 1st International Workshop on Designing Software (Designing 2024)”, Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM International Workshop on Designing Software Designing 2024, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 32–34, 2024.
- V. Jackson, B. Vasilescu, D. Russo, P. Ralph, M. Izadi, R. Prikladnicki, S. D'Angelo, S. Inman, A. Lisboa, A. van der Hoek, “Creativity, Generative AI, and Software Development”, pp. 8, 2024. Presented at Software Engineering in 2030 Workshop, July 2024.
- E. Almeida, I. Ahmed, A. van der Hoek, “Let's Go to the Whiteboard (Again): Perceptions from Software Architects on Whiteboard Architecture Meetings” (opens in new tab), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 4773–4795, 2023.
- V. Jackson, R. Prikladnicki, A. van der Hoek, L. Marshall, “Team Creativity in a Hybrid Software Development World: Eight Approaches” (opens in new tab), IEEE Software, vol. 40, no. 02, pp. 60–69, 2023.
- V. Jackson, A. van der Hoek, R. Prikladnicki, C. Ebert, “Collaboration Tools for Developers” (opens in new tab), IEEE Software, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 7–15, 2022.
- H. Freedman, D. Schaefer, A. van der Hoek, B. Tomlinson, “Node Position in a Group-Constructed Knowledge Network as an Indicator of Contributor Accuracy”, 2022. Presented at Forty-second International Social Network Conference, July 2022.
- H. Freedman, A. van der Hoek, B. Tomlinson, “Student-Generated Knowledge Graphs about Sustainability”, pp. 1, 2021. Presented at International Symposium for Sustainable Systems and Technology, June 2021.
Most Cited Publications
- A. Baker, E. Oh Navarro, A. van der Hoek, “An Experimental Card Game for Teaching Software Engineering Processes” (opens in new tab), Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 75, no. 1-2, pp. 3–16, 2005.
- E. Dashofy, A. van der Hoek, R.N. Taylor, “A Comprehensive Approach for the Development of XML-Based Software Architecture Description Languages” (opens in new tab), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 199–245, 2005.
- T.D. LaToza, A. van der Hoek, “Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering”, IEEE Software, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 74–80, 2016.
- A. Sarma, D. Redmiles, A. van der Hoek, “Palantír: Early Detection of Development Conflicts Arising from Parallel Code Changes” (opens in new tab), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 889–908, 2012.
- R. Roshandel, A. van der Hoek, M. Mikic-Rakic, N. Medvidovic, “Mae – A System Model and Environment for Managing Architectural Evolution” (opens in new tab), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 240–276, 2004.
- A. van der Hoek, “Design-Time Product Line Architectures for Any-Time Variability” (opens in new tab), Science of Computer Programming, vol. 53, no. 30, pp. 285–304, 2004.
- G. Ghiotto, L. Murta, M. Barros, A. van der Hoek, “On the Nature of Software Merge Conflicts: a Study of 2,731 Open Source Java Projects Hosted by GitHub” (opens in new tab), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 892–915, 2020.
- A. Sarma, D. Redmiles, A. van der Hoek, “Empirical Evidence of the Benefits of Workspace Awareness in Software Configuration Management” (opens in new tab), Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 113–123, 2008. Presented at Sixteenth ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, November 2008.
- Mistrik I., Grundy J., Van Der Hoek A., Whitehead J., “Collaborative software engineering: Challenges and prospects” (opens in new tab), Collaborative Software Engineering, pp. 389-403, 2010.
- A. Rastogi, N. Nagappan, G. Gousios, A. van der Hoek, “Relationship between Geographical Location and Evaluation of Developer Contributions in GitHub” (opens in new tab), International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, pp. 1–8, 2018. Presented at Twelfth ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, October 2018.
Contact Information
Email: andre@uci.edu
Phone: (949) 824-6326
Address: 2426 Samueli Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering
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Last updated on 9/10/2026.