Cécile Péraire
Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Room 105
- 650-335-2851
Silicon Valley
Building 23
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Bio
Dr. Cécile Péraire has over 25 years of software engineering experience working in both industry and academia. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland). Following a postdoctoral research fellowship at SRI International and Hewlett Packard, she worked at Rational and IBM where she played different roles covering the many facets of software development. She has contributed significantly to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and IBM's internal methods.
Dr. Péraire is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She is a recipient of CMU College of Engineering Dean’s Early Career Fellowship Award, as well as CMU College of Engineering Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award for her contribution to the development of ECE’s unique and distinctive Software Engineering Master program offered in Silicon Valley, California. She has published and taught extensively in her areas of specialization. She has a passion for innovation in practices and tools that enable teams to more effectively develop and deliver software-intensive systems.
Teaching
Throughout her career, Dr. Péraire taught 16 different undergraduate, graduate, and industry courses (most of them several times) at EPFL, HP, Rational, IBM and CMU. She has contributed to the design of many of these courses. Here are the courses that she is currently teaching at CMU:
18-652: Foundations of Software Engineering
18-658: Software Requirements and Interaction Design
18-659: Software Engineering Methods
Education
Ph.D.
Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology