My name is Tudor Girba. Actually, it's Gîrba. People call me Doru. I am Romanian. I received my PhD from the University of Bern in 2005 and since then I am a postdoctoral researcher at Software Composition Group. I also work as a consultant through Sw-eng. Software engineering Gmbh.

I am concerned with communicating and modeling information in general, and I blog about it. My latest entries:

• Whitespace
  Whitespace is an all too often overlooked graphical design resource. Perhaps it is natural to be so,...
• The slides mirage
  If you stare at the slides while talking, the audience will also tend to do so. If you continuously ...
• How much time?
  “How much time do I have?“ asks the presenter and 5 seconds are wasted. An unintelligible respon...

My research area is software engineering with focus on software assessment and reengineering. Since 2003, I am one of the main developers and architects of Moose. During my PhD I have built the Hismo meta-model for software evolution analysis. I am the co-author of the Mondrian visualization engine. I have recently started a research project that targets the analysis of J2EE systems.