Nancy R. Mead is a senior member of the technical staff in the Survivable Systems Engineering Group, which is part of the CERT Program. Mead is also a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering and Master of Information Systems Management programs at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently involved in the study of secure systems engineering and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. She also served as director of education for the SEI from 1991 to 1994. Her research interests are in the areas of information security, software requirements engineering, and software architectures. Prior to joining the SEI, Mead was a senior technical staff member at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her career in the development and management of large real-time systems. She also worked in IBM’s software engineering technology area and managed IBM Federal Systems’ software engineering education department. She has developed and taught numerous courses on software engineering topics, both at universities and in professional education courses.

Mead has more than 100 publications and invited presentations, and has a biographical citation in Who’s Who in America. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the ACM. Mead serves on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Security and Privacy and the Requirements Engineering Journal, and is a member of numerous advisory boards and committees. Mead received her PhD in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a BA and an MS in mathematics from New York University.

Mead's research interests are in the areas of software requirements engineering, software architectures, and software metrics.

recent publications

Mead, N. R. & Hough, E. D. Security Requirements Engineering for Software Systems: Case Studies in Support of Software Engineering Education, 149-156. 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training. Turtle Bay, HI, April 19-21, 2006. New York, NY: IEEE Computer Society, 2006.

Mead, N. R.; Davis, N.; Dougherty, C.; & Mead, R. Ch. 8, Recommended Practices, 275-308. Secure Coding in C and C++. Robert Seacord. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison Wesley, 2005.

Mead, N. R. Ch. 3, Identifying Security Requirements Using the SQUARE Method, 44-69. Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Visions, H. Mouratidis & P. Giorgini. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2006, (ISBN: 1-59904-147-2).

Mead, N. R.; Hough, E.; & Stehney, T. Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Methodology (CMU/SEI-2005-TR-009). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/05.reports/05tr009.html

Chen, P., Mead, N. R., Dean, M., Lopez, L., Ojoko-Adams, D., Osman, H. Xie, N. SQUARE Methodology: Case Study on Asset Management System (CMU/SEI-2004-SR-015). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.

Industrial Input to the Computing Curriculum, Book Chapter, Effective Learning & Teaching in Computing, Editors Alastair Irons & Sylvia Alexander, Routledge Falmer, New York, N.Y. pp. 123-135, 2004.

links

• CERT/CC research