- Associate Professor of Information Technology Management
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Academic Background
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BA, University of California Los Angeles
Research Interests
- Actionable Business Analytics
- Information Technology Engineering
- Strategic, Economic, and Empirical Methods in Software Engineering
- IT Education
Selected Publications
Port, D., Taber, B. & Emkani, P. Investigating effectiveness and compliance to DevOps
policies and practices for managing productivity and quality variability. Journal of Sys-
tems and Software 213, 112030 (2024).
Port, D. & Taber, W. Actionable Analytics for Strategic Maintenance of Critical Software:
An Industry Experience Report. IEEE Software 35, 58–63 (2018).
Hill, E., Johnson, P. M. & Port, D. Is an Athletic Approach the Future of Software Engi-
neering Education? IEEE Software 33, 97–100 (2016).
Panko, R. R. & Port, D. End User Computing: The Dark Matter (and Dark Energy) of Cor-
porate IT. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 25, 1–19 (2013)
Chen, A., Huo, T., Nam, Y., Peruma, A. & Port, D. The Impact of Generative AI-Powered
Code Generation Tools on Software Engineer Hiring: Recruiters’ Experiences, Perceptions,
and Strategies in Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS) (2025), 1–10.
Kuh, A., Port, D., Santhanam, N. P., Thompson, L. & Lee, M. A Novel Multidisciplinary
Graduate Education Program in Data Science in Proceedings of the 2025 International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (2025), 1–8.
Port, D. & Taber, B. Investigating an Industry Practical Model for Confidence in Expert Cost
Estimation of Feature Enhancement Requests in Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (2024), 7770–7779. https://hdl.handle.net/
10125/107320.
Port, D., Taber, W. & Huang, L. Investigating a NASA Cyclomatic Complexity Policy on Main-
tenance Risk of a Critical System in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE-SEIP) (2023), 211–221.
Port, D. & Wilf, J. M. Classifying Risk Uncertainty for Decision Making in Proceedings of the
52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (2019), 1–8. https://
hdl.handle.net/10125/60173.
Awards & Honors
- 2009 - Professor of the Semester - Business Elective
- 2008 - Dennis Ching Teaching Award (Senior faculty)
- 2008 - Professor of the Semester - Major
- 2005 - Dennis Ching Teaching Award (Junior faculty)
- 1989-1993 - National Science Foundation Fellowship
- 1989 - Departmental Honors in Mathematics
- 1989 - Departmental Scholar in Mathematics
- 1989 - Chancellor's Marshal (UCLA)
Grants
- NASA Software Assurance Research Program grant (with A. Nikora, J. Wilf)
- UH College of Business Research grant
- UH College of Business Research grant
- NASA Human & Robotic Technology Research Grant (with R. Kazman)
- National Science Foundation grant (with P. Johnson)
- UH College of Business Research grant
- National Science Foundation grant (with P. Johnson)