Mike Barker

Mike Barker has over 40 years of experience, first in industry with companies such as RCA and BBN, then nine years at MIT leading the Athena group and developing the first LMS for the MIT community. In 2003, he moved to Japan and joined Nara Institute of Science and Technology, where he teaches software engineering, project management, and research methods. In 2015, he was a visiting professor at the University of Information Science and Technology in Ohrid, Macedonia where he taught a 3 week intensive course on research methods in science and technology. He was also the steering committee chair for CSEE&T from 2012 to 2017, and a long time member of ACM, IEEE, and a PMP-certified member of PMI.