Nancy R. Mead
Nancy Mead | |
|---|---|
| Born | About 1944 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Known for | Security, Software Engineering Education |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science and Software Engineering |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Preiser[1] |
Nancy Mead (Born about 1944) is an American computer scientist. She is known for her contributions to security and software engineering education.
Background and education
Mead spent her childhood in New Jersey, growing up in a 2nd generation Armenian immigrant family. She had an early interest in mathematics, which led to a mathematics major at New York University. She received a BA in mathematics and French (Honors) in 1963, and an MS in mathematics in 1967 from New York University. Mead received her PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering). Her thesis, "Complexity Measures for System Design", was supervised by Stanley Preiser[1].
Career
Mead spent a significant part of her career at IBM [2] (1966-1990), in software development and management of large real-time systems, software engineering technology, and software engineering education. She was named a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in 1988.
Mead’s research at the SEI (1990-2018) was primarily in the study of software engineering and cybersecurity engineering, particularly software and security requirements, and the development of software assurance and software engineering curricula. She was the Principal Investigator and primary developer of the SQUARE method [3] for security requirements engineering, and led the Software Assurance Curriculum Project [4], which included the Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum recognized by IEEE and ACM. At present, her interests are in threat modeling and supply chain risk management.
Awards and Honors
She was named a Fellow of IEEE in 2006 [5], and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM in 2009. The Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education [6] , given by the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T) since 2010, is named for her. She was named a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 2013 [7]. In 2015 she received the Distinguished Education Award from IEEE Computer Society TCSE [8] . In 2019 she was awarded the Parnas Fellowship [2] by Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. In 2020 she was selected for the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program [9] .
Publications
Mead has more than 150 publications. She has co-authored two books: Software Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2008) [10] and Cyber Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2016) [11] .
References
- ^ a b Nancy R. Mead at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Nancy R Mead - Lero The Irish Software Research Centre".
- ^ "Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE)". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "Software Assurance Curriculum Project Volume I: Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows Directory Nancy Mead". Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)". Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "Mead Named SEI Fellow". Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ "2015 IEEE CS TCSE Software Engineering Distinguished Education Award Nancy Mead". Retrieved 27 November 2024.
- ^ {{cite web | title=Nancy Mead 2020–2022 Distinguished Speaker |url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/nancy-mead |accessdate=27 November 2024
- ^ Allen J, Barnum S, Ellison R, McGraw G, Mead, N. Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers. ISBN 9780321509178.
- ^ Mead, Nancy; Woody, Carol. Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance. ISBN 9780134189802.
