Nancy R. Mead
Senior Member of Technical Staff
CERT Program

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

responsibilities

Current responsibilities include technical leadership in survivable systems engineering, research in security requirements engineering, and faculty member at CMU.

Teams

Survivable Systems Engineering 

Professional Background

Nancy R. Mead is a senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The CERT Coordination Center is a part of this program. Mead is also a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering and Master of Information Systems Management programs at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently involved in the study of secure systems engineering and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. She also served as director of education for the SEI from 1991 to 1994. Her research interests are in the areas of information security, software requirements engineering, and software architectures. 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 100 publications and invited presentations, and has a biographical citation in Whos Who in America. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and the IEEE Computer Society and is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Mead is a member of numerous advisory boards and committees. Dr. Mead received her PhD in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and received a BA and an MS in mathematics from New York University.

Publications (recent or significant)

• Who is Liable for Insecure Systems, IEEE Computer, July 2004, pp. 27-34.
• Industrial Input to the Computing Curriculum, Book Chapter, Effective Learning & Teaching in Computing, Editors Alastair Irons & Sylvia Alexander, Routledge Falmer, New York, N.Y. pp. 123-135, 2004.
• Requirements Engineering for Survivable Systems, Software Engineering Institute, CMU/SEI-2003-TN-013, September 2003
• International Liability Issues for Software Quality, Software Engineering Institute, CMU/SEI-2003-SR-001, June 2003
• Mead, N.R., Hough, E., Stehney, T. Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Methodology, (CMU/SEI-2005-TR-009). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/05.reports/05tr009.html.

Education

• BA in Mathematics and French, New York University
• MS in Mathematics, New York University
• PhD in Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of New York

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• IEEE Security & Privacy Editorial Board
• Requirements Engineering Journal Editorial Board