Jim Ning's Ph.D. research was in the area of Knowledge-Based Program Analysis. During the last five years with Andesen Consulting, he worked mainly on Software Re-engineering and Reusable Component Recovery. He and his colleagues developed two workbench environments (BAL/SRW and COBOL/SRE) and published a number of journal articles and conference papers in these areas. He is currently leading a research project in the area of Module Interface Specification and Analysis.