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2023 Year in Review

Professional Organization Participation Boosts SEI Staff and Mission

The active participation of SEI staff members in professional societies and organizations helps the SEI serve its Department of Defense (DoD) sponsor, external customers, and the nation. In 2023, many SEI researchers held leadership positions or attained special honors in professional organizations.

Conference Committees

  • Bjorn Andersson was a program chair for the IEEE Explainability of Real-Time Systems and their Analysis (ERSA) 2023 workshop. Dionisio de Niz, Mark Klein, Carol Smith, and Violet Turri were on the conference program committee.
  • Linda Parker Gates was the co-chair of the International Association for Strategic Planning (IASP) Global Conference 2023.

Society Leadership and Memberships

  • Grace Lewis was elected first vice president of the IEEE Computer Society for 2024. She was also second vice president and vice president for technical and conference activities in 2023.
  • Rick Kazman was elected to the IEEE Computer Society board of governors for 2023-2025.
  • Andrew Kotov, Brigid O’Hearn, and Scott Sinclair were promoted to senior members of IEEE.
  • Eric Ferguson and Sam Procter were promoted to senior members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
  • Jonathan Frederick was the vice president of the (ISC)2 Pittsburgh chapter.

Editorships

  • Leigh Metcalf was co-editor-in-chief of the ACM journal Digital Threats: Research and Practice.
  • Ipek Ozkaya completed five years as IEEE Software magazine editor-in-chief.
  • Anita Carleton became the chair of the IEEE Software magazine advisory board.
  • Bill Claycomb was an associate editor for the journal Counter-Insider Threat Research and Practice.

Standards Development

  • Jérôme Hugues was the technical lead for the SAE AS-2C Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) committee working on the definition of the language and co-chair of the Systems Modeling Community on Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems (AADL V2 for SysML V2).
  • Carol Smith was a member of the IEEE P7008 Standard for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic, Intelligent, and Autonomous Systems working group. Smith also joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology Generative Artificial Intelligence Public working group.
  • Hasan Yasar chaired or co-chaired the committees for the IEEE DevOps, IEEE Software Configuration Management, and Open Group Zero Trust Implementation standards development.
  • Robin Yeman was the vice chair of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs and Team (ADAPT) and co-chair of the Agile and systems engineering working group of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
  • Roman Danyliw was a security area director in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
  • Chris Inacio co-chaired the IETF network file systems (NFS) working group.

Other Honors

  • Carol Smith was a member of the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program.
  • Alexis Presti-Simpson was appointed a University Fellow on the Norwich University Board of Fellows on the College of Sciences and Mathematics committee to advise on academic programs in coordination with the Dean of the Faculty of the Office of the President.