Professional Organization Leadership Promotes National Defense 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 2024, many SEI researchers held leadership positions in professional organizations.

Professional Society Leadership

• Anita Carleton, elected chair of the IEEE Software advisory board
• Grace Lewis, elected 2026 president of the IEEE Computer Society

Conference Committee Leadership

• Bjorn Andersson, journal track co-chair and keynote session chair, 2024 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
• Linda Parker Gates, conference chair, International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP) 2024
• Anandi Hira, general chair, 2023 Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering COCOMO & Practical Software and Systems Measurement Forum
• Grace Lewis, program co-chair, 2024 Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN)
• Michael Mattarock, AI session chair, 2024 Aerospace TechWeek Americas
• Leigh Metcalf, practitioner session program chair, 2023 IEEE Secure Development Conference
• Jasmine Ratchford, co-chair, Nonlinear Dynamics II session at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
• Carol Smith, keynote chair, 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2024)
• Hasan Yasar, general chair, 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024)
• Robin Yeman, conference track chair, 2023 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering, Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs & Teams (ADAPT)
• Mark T. Zajicek, co-chair, conference program committee of the 2024 Open Cyber Security Conference

Standards Bodies and Other Organizational Leadership

• Tracy Bills, chair, Board of Directors of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
• Roman Danyliw, chair, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); director, board of the IETF Administration LLC; General Area director, IETF Internet Engineering Steering Group
• Jason Hawk, chair, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and University Affiliated Research Centers (FFRDC/UARC) Security Council
• Angel Hueca, vice chair, Information Technology Security Community Steering Committee, American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International
• Craig Lewis, co-chair, DoD Defense Industrial Base Small Business Working Group
• Dan Plakosh, secretariat, ISO/IEC C standards committee
• Greg Touhill, board of directors, Internet Security Alliance
• Laurie Tyzenhaus, co-chair, Standards Special Interest Group, FIRST Standards Committee
• Hasan Yasar, elected vice-chair of the Open Group Security Forum; chair, FFRDC Advanced Technology Academic Research Center DevSecOps Working Group; co-chair, IEEE 2675 DevOps Standard Development Working Group

Editorships

• Angel Hueca, Sharon Mudd, Tim Shimeall, guest editors, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Threats: Research and Practice, December 2023
• Marisa Midler, guest editor, SANS OUCH! newsletter, June 2024
• Gabe Moreno, associate editor, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
• Destiney Plaza, guest editor, SANS OUCH! newsletter, July 2024

Professional Awards

• Linda Parker Gates, International Association for Strategy Professionals’ Janice Laureen Award for Outstanding Service
• Greg Touhill, Air Force Cyberspace Operations & Support Hall of Fame, Air Force Cyberspace and Air Traffic Control Association
• Carol Woody and the IEEE P2933 working group, IEEE Standards Association’s Emerging Technology Award for Standard on Clinical Internet of Things Data and Device Interoperability with Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security