Jessie Jamieson

Dr. Jessie Jamieson is a Senior Cyber Risk Engineer with the CERT Division at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. Jamieson is a research mathematician with almost seven years of experience applying mathematical techniques to cybersecurity and decision making. She received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow specializing in functional analysis and PDE theory applied to the mechanics of structural beams. During her graduate studies, she was an intern at NASA Goddard and a DHS-STEM intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for one year, which served as her introduction to cybersecurity.

Upon graduation, she spent four years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where she worked across multiple mission areas and sponsor spaces, primarily supporting a number of DoD cyber initiatives. She has experience working with multiple unified combatant commands, OUSD A&S, and service cyber components.

Prior to joining the SEI, Jamieson worked as a staff research engineer for two years at Tenable, where she was the founding member of the new decision science operations capability. This capability provided time-critical data support to vulnerability analysis efforts by the security response team.