Viterbi Faculty Directory

Biography

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Dr. Jae Young Bang is a computer scientist with over a decade of experience in software engineering. His background includes academic research in software architecture, leading‑edge software development practice, and serving as a testifying expert in software-related litigation, including patent/copyright infringement and breach-of-contract matters.

He currently holds the title of Senior Computer Scientist and Director of Software Development at Quandary Peak Research, a software analysis company headquartered in Los Angeles. As a Senior Computer Scientist, he performs software analysis on behalf of clients. He has reverse-engineered and analyzed the hardware and software designs of a broad variety of complex, real-world systems. He has conducted many investigations of the design and implementation of these systems for various companies concerning copyright infringement claims and other intellectual property considerations, such as patent infringement and trade secret theft. As the Director of Software Development, he leads Quandary Peak Research's internal software research and development to advance technologies in software source code analysis, quality evaluation, design comparison, reverse engineering, cost estimation, and failure investigation.

He also teaches software engineering classes at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The current and past classes include the graduate-level Software Architectures class at USC and the undergraduate-level Software Design: Structure and Implementation class at UCI.