Professional Leadership Enhances National Security Mission

Professional Society Leadership

• Linda Parker Gates, elected director at large of the International Association for Strategy Professional (IASP); lead, IASP Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Committee
• Angel Hueca, chair, Information Technology Security Community (ITSC) Steering Committee, American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International
• Craig Lewis, Industry Co-Chair for the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Security program (DIB CS) Small Business Working Group
• Grace Lewis, 2025 president-elect of IEEE Computer Society
• Chad Moye, technical programs director for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) for 2025
• Paul Nielsen, Board Member, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International
• Gregory Touhill, advisory board member, Military Cyber Professionals Association; Board of Directors member, Air and Space Forces Association

Conference Committee Leadership

• Anita Carleton, advisory board member, Aerospace Ground System Architectures Workshop
• Tim Chick, chair, 2025 SEI Secure Software by Design conference
• Eric Heim, co-chair, 2025 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Engineering Safety Critical AI Systems
• Jérôme Hugues, workshop chair, 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC); co-chair, 2025 SEI Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) In Practice Conference
• Ryan Karl, co-chair for two mini-tracks, The Impact of AI on Software Engineering and Human-Centered Approaches to Medical Wearable Devices for Population Health, 58th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
• Grace Lewis, general co-chair, 2025 International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN); demonstrations co-chair, 2026 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
• Scott McMillan, session co-chair, GraphBLAS Birds of a Feather session, 2025 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference
• Gabe Moreno, doctoral symposium chair, 2025 International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS)
• Ipek Ozkaya, Software Engineering for AI area chair, 2026 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
• Jasmine Ratchford, session co-chair, Nonlinear Dynamics II Session, 2024 IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CDC)
• Mark Sherman, track chair, Use of LLMs for Program Analysis and Generation, 58th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
• Natasha Shevchenko, chair, 2025 SEI MBSE In Practice Conference
• Hasan Yasar, general chair, 2024 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2024); general co-chair, Advances in Secure Software Deployments (ASoD) Workshop, 2025 International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES)

Standards Bodies Leadership

• Ryan Karl, co-chair, WG14 Memory Safety Study Group; member, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 Working Group (C Programming Language)
• Scott McMillan, member, ISO C++ Standards Committee
• Toby Meyer, contributing author/editor, IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC)
• Dan Plakosh, secretariat and member, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 Working Group (C Programming Language)
• Mark Sherman, member, IEEE Computer Society Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee (C/AISC) and associated working groups on AI Large Model Evaluation and Large Language Model Application and Agent Interface
• Natasha Shevchenko, voting member, Object Management Group (OMG) Risk Analysis and Assessment Modeling Language Revision Task Force and Unified Architecture Framework Standard Submission Team working groups
• David Svoboda, representative, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 (C Programming Language); lead, Undefined Behaviors Study Group (UBSG)
• Laurie Tyzenhaus, selected as lead editor for updating ISO/IEC 29147:2018, Vulnerability Disclosure
• Hasan Yasar, co-chair of the IEEE 2675 Family of DevOps Standards Development Working Group

Other Organizational Leadership

• Tracy Bills, chair, Board of Directors of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
• Anna Burkholder, advisory board member, Global Information Assurance Certification
• Taylor Caldron, advisory board member, Global Information Assurance Certification
• Anne Connell, advisory board member, Adobe Privacy by Design
• Roman Danyliw, chair, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); director on the board of the IETF Administration LLC
• Matt Gaston, member, National Academies Study: Using Machine Learning in Safety-Critical Systems
• Linda Parker Gates, examiner, Communities of Excellence Assessment and Recognition Program 2026
• Jérôme Hugues, co-chair, Systems Modeling Community on Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems Working Group (AADL V2 for SysML V2)
• Chris Inacio, chair, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Network File System V4 and Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust working groups
• Tim Morrow, co-academic lead, Advanced Technology Advanced Research Center (ATARC) DevSecOps/Zero Trust working group
• Sharon Mudd, co-author and co-facilitator, The Open Group Security Forum, Integrating Information Risk Management with Enterprise Risk Management
• Paul Nielsen, co-chair, National Academies study on Digital Transformation for the Department of the Air Force
• Justin Novak, contributing member, Security Operations Center (SOC) Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Cyber Policy SIG for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
• Mark Sherman, member, Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute Partners Program Committee
• Gregory Touhill, board of directors member, Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
• Hasan Yasar, vice-chair, Open Group Security Forum; board member and federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) chair of the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC)

Editorships and Publication Leadership

• Anita Carleton, advisory board chair, IEEE Software
• Paul Nielsen, editorial advisory board member, IEEE Spectrum
• Sam Perl, guest editor, ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) journal in FY25
• Michael Theis, advisory board member, CSO Magazine
• Carol Woody, editorial board member, International Journal of Systems and Software Security and Protection (IJSSSP)
• Eileen Wrubel, editorial board member, CrossTalk: Journal of Defense Engineering

Professional Awards

• Harold Ennulat, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) associate fellow, class of 2026
• Matt Hale, award by AAAI for Educational AI Videos for General Audiences
• Dan Plakosh, AIAA associate fellow, class of 2026
• Gregory Touhill, Order of Thor Gold Medal for leadership in the profession from the Military Cyber Professional Association; inductee, U.S. Air Force Command, Control, Communications and Cyber Systems Hall of Fame