Grace Lewis
Software Engineering Institute
Grace Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) where she conducts applied research on how software engineering and software architecture principles, practices and tools need to evolve in the face of emerging technologies. She is the principal investigator for the Establishing the Practice of Integrated Test and Evaluation for ML Capabilities project, in addition to other projects that are advancing the state of the practice in software engineering for machine learning (SE4ML) and edge software systems.
Grace is also the lead for the Tactical Edge and AI-Enabled Systems (TAS) applied research and development team at the SEI that is creating and transitioning innovative solutions, principles, and best practices for
- architecting and developing systems to support teams operating at the tactical edge in resource-constrained environments
- engineering AI software systems
- using AI/ML at the edge for improved capabilities and mission support.
She is also the 2026 President of the IEEE Computer Society. Grace holds a B.Sc. in Software Systems Engineering and a Post-Graduate Specialization in Business Administration from Icesi University in Cali, Colombia; a Master in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
