Raymond Madachy

Raymond Madachy is an American professor of systems engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. In 2016 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Southern California (USC) Center for Systems and Software Engineering. In 2025 he received the Jeff Grady Award for Advancing Systems Engineering Knowledge from the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) San Diego Chapter for contributions to systems engineering education and research .

Education Madachy received a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton in 1981, a master's in system science from the University of California, San Diego in 1983, and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from USC in 1994.

Career After working in private industry Madachy worked as a research assistant professor and research scientist at USC from 2005 through 2008. In 2008 he became an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and in 2018 a professor.

Recognition

2017 - Best Paper, IEEE Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) conference 2016 - USC CSSE Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Southern California Center for Systems and Software Engineering 2015 - Best Paper: Software Estimating Track, International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association

Selected publications

(with Marc Kellner and David Raffo) (With Boehm, Egyed, Kwan, Port, Shah)