Orso currently serves as a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and as director of Georgia Tech’s Scientific Software Engineering Center. He previously served as associate dean for off-campus and special initiatives in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech from 2020 to 2025 and was interim dean of the college during the 2023-2024 academic year.
An expert in software engineering, Orso’s research focuses on software testing, program analysis and debugging. His work includes the development of techniques for improving software reliability, security and trustworthiness and the validation of those techniques on real-world systems. His research has attracted funding from a variety of government agencies and industry partners including Google, IBM and Microsoft.
Orso earned his doctorate in computer science and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
