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Nancy R. Mead

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, United States.

Research field: Security Requirements Engineering; Software Assurance Curricula; Software Engineering Education.

Dr. Nancy R. Mead is a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), and an Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Parnas Fellow at Lero, the Irish Software Research Institute. Her research areas are security requirements engineering, software assurance curricula, and software engineering education. The Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education is named for her.

Prior to joining the SEI, Mead was a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her career in the development and management of large real-time systems. She also worked in IBM's software engineering technology area and managed IBM Federal Systems' software engineering education department. She has developed and taught numerous courses on software engineering topics, both at universities and in professional education courses.

Mead has more than 200 publications and invited presentations. She is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. She received the 2015 IEEE TCSE Distinguished Educator award and the 2024 IEEE TCSVC Women in Services Computing Award. Dr. Mead received her PhD in mathematics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.