Kevin J. Sullivan
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Kevin J. Sullivan is an American
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 associate professor of computer science
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 at the University of Virginia
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 in Charlottesville, Virginia
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, United States
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. He also holds the title of Virginia Engineering Foundation (VEF) Endowed Faculty Fellow in computer science at the University of Virginia. He is best known for his work with ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems.

He received a bachelor's degree from Tufts University
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 in 1987, and received MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington
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 in 1994. He has been at the University of Virginia since 1994.

His best known work is on Mediator-based Design Style with David Notkin, on the Galileo: Fault Tree Analysis Tool with Joanne Bechta Dugan. He has also contributed to the design of the Eos (programming language) along with Hridesh Rajan, and is one of many co-authors of the report Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future

His most cited papers as shown in Scopus
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are:
  • "Software reflexion models: Bridging the gap between source and high-level models ",by Murphy, Gail C., Notkin, David, Sullivan, Kevin, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering 1995 , pp. 18–27., cited 105 times
  • "Software reflexion models: Bridging the gap between design and implementation " by Murphy, G.C., Notkin, D., Sullivan, K.J. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.. 27 (4), 2001, pp. 364–380, cited 99 times.
  • "Modular software design with crosscutting interfaces " by Griswold, W.G., Shonle, M., Sullivan, K., Song, Y., Tewari, N., Cai, Y., Rajan, H IEEE Software 23 (1), pp. 51–60, 2006, cited 66 times.

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