Cristina Lopes

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Cristina Videira Lopes is a professor of informatics and computer science at the University of California, Irvine. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1998, advised by Karl Lieberherr and Gregor Kiczales.

Before becoming a professor, she worked as a research scientist at Xerox PARC. There she helped found the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org. Her later research focuses on ubiquitous computing, aiming to create communication methods that are pervasive, secure, and intuitive for people to use. She is an ACM Distinguished Member. Her website is www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/