Nancy R. Mead

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

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

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 software security 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 software 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 150 publications and invited presentations, and has a biographical citation in Who's Who in America. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and the IEEE Computer Society and is a Distinguished 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)

Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers, Addison Wesley, 2008.
Identifying Security Requirements Using the SQUARE Method, Book Chapter, Integrating Security and Software Engineering, Editors Mouratidis and Giorgini, IGI Global, pp. 44-69, 2007.
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.
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.
International Liability Issues for Software Quality, Software Engineering Institute, CMU/SEI-2003-SR-001, June 2003