Prof. Mark Harman is a British computer scientist. Since 2010, he has been a professor at University College London (UCL)[4] and since 2017 he has been at Facebook London. He was founder of the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and Testing (CREST) initially at King's College London in 2006, latterly at UCL, and was the Director until 2017.[5] Harman has received both of the major research awards for software engineering (both awarded in 2019): the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award, for "fundamental contributions throughout software engineering, including seminal contributions in establishing search-based software engineering, reigniting research in slicing and testing, and founding genetic improvement";[1] and the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award[2][3]
In September 2016, Harman co-founded Majicke Limited,[6] creator of the Sapienz bug finding app. The company was acquired by Facebook[8] and in February 2017 Harman joined Facebook London as a full-time Engineering Manager. He remains as a part-time professor of Software Engineering in CREST and the Computer Science department at University College London. He organizes the annual Facebook Testing & Verification (TAV) Symposium.[9]