Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundation’s CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering. In 2004 she became a CITRIS director emeritus and now she is a full time professor of EECS.

April 2008, Dr. Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world.

Dr. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science.

Dr. Bajcsy received her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, and since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penn’s Department of Computer and Information Science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became chair of the department. Prior to her work at the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has served as advisor to more than 50 Ph.D. recipients. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from Universty of Ljubljana in Slovenia

In 2001 she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award.

Contact Info:
(510) 642-9423
bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

Annie Antón is a Professor of Software Engineering (effective 8/16/2008) in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at NC State University (NCSU), where she is a Senior Research Ethics Fellow for the period of 2006-08 and a member of the NCSU Cyber Defense Lab. This year, she is chairing the NC State Public Policy Task Force. Her research focuses on methods and tools to support the specification of complete, correct behavior of software systems used in environments that pose risks of loss as a consequence of failures and misuse. This includes Web-based and e-commerce systems in which the security of personal and private information is particularly vulnerable. To this end, she has developed a leadership role in research, education and outreach with her three current initiatives.

Antón is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research group of students and faculty at NCSU, Georgia Tech, Purdue Univ. (see our Collaborative NSF CyberTrust Project), and Univ. of Lugano. She is leading this group in the development of technology to assist practitioners and policy makers in meeting the challenge of eliciting and expressing policies (a form of requirements). These tools help ensure that privacy policies are aligned with the software systems that they govern.

Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop systems that are in compliance with security and privacy policies.

Her professional activities include a notable combination of multi-disciplinary research and education. She is co-founder of the Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS), which has bridged the gap between the software engineering and information security research communities. In 2002 she coordinated NC State's successful application for a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, involving the participation of faculty in three Colleges. She is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the cognitive issues subject area editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal, and a member of the International Board of Referees for Computers and Security.

Contact info:
Professor of Computer Science North Carolina State University
College of Engineering /Computer Science Department
(Room 3280 EB II)
890 Oval Drive
Campus Box 8206
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 U.S.A.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aianton/
Email: lastname AT csc.ncsu.edu
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Phone: (+1) 919.515.5764
Fax: (+1) 919.513.1895

Judith Cardell is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Picker Engineering Program and the Department of Computer Science. Her research interests lie in the analysis and design of complex technical systems. She is interested in the engineering aspects of supplying energy to society and the broader social context of meeting society’s energy needs in a sustainable and reliable manner.
Dr. Cardell works in two areas related to the electric power industry: one on the control and integration of distributed technologies into the existing electric power system and future, market driven system. Such technologies include small hydro-electric plants, wind turbines, solar energy systems, fuel cells, traditional gensets and solid-state transmission control technologies referred to as FACTS devices (flexible AC transmission system). The second area is that of industry deregulation and market design. Dr. Cardell studies power system and electricity market reliability and stability in response to these new technologies.
Before coming to Smith, Cardell worked at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and as a consultant to the power industry at TCA (part of Charles River Associates). She was involved in writing federal electricity policy that addressed many aspects of the deregulation of the electric power industry. She has provided expert testimony to the federal government analyzing the California energy crisis of 2000, and power system operations throughout the eastern United States.

Contact info:
Assistant Professor
Picker Engineering Program
Department of Computer Science
Clark Science Center, EGR 105b
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063 (413) 585-4222
email: jcardell{at}smith.edu

Mary Ann Davidson is the Chief Security Officer at Oracle Corporation, responsible for Oracle product security, as well as security evaluations, assessments and incident handling. She represents Oracle on the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Information Security Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), is a member of the Global Chief Security Officer Council and the editorial advisory board of SC Magazine. She was recently named one of Information Security's top five "Women of Vision" and is 2004 Fed100 award recipient from Federal Computer Week. She has served on the Defense Science Board and has recently been named to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Commission.

Ms. Davidson has a B.S.M.E. from the University of Virginia and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, during which she was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.

Contact Info:
Oracle Corporation

I am an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. I also hold a secondary appointment in the Computer Science Department at Rochester. I received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1995 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1997 and 2000, respectively. My current research interests lie in the area of wireless communications and networking, mobile computing, and multimedia communication. I am a member of ACM Sigmobile, SWE, N^2 Women and a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Contact Info:
Associate Professor University of Rochester
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester
Hopeman 307, Box 270126
Rochester, NY 14627
Phone: 585-275-4053
Fax: 585-273-4919
wheinzel@ece.rochester.edu
http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~wheinzel/

Sheila S. Hemami received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. During her last year at Stanford, she was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo, Alto, California. Upon completing her Ph.D., she joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department at Cornell where she currently directs the Visual Communications Lab.

She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Hemami serves on many program committees and organizing committees in the fields of signal and image processing, compression, and perception.

She has held visiting positions at Princeton University and Rice University (TI Distinguished Visiting Professor), and in 2001 she visited the Faculte de Sciences, Rabat, Morocco as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer.

In 1997 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She held the Kodak Term Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University from 1996-1999. In 2000 she received the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (a national award), and she has won numerous teaching awards at Cornell. She was a finalist for the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 2003. In 2005 she received the Alice H. Cook and Constance E. Cook Award at Cornell University for her leadership of the Women in Science and Engineering committee.

Hemami is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.

Contact Info:
Professor of Electrical Engineering
332 Rhodes Hall
(607) 254-5128
hemami@ecs.cornell.edu

Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where she concentrates on the interplay between security and public policy. She is currently working on surveillance issues. Her earlier activities included digital rights management, where she helped establish Sun's stance on DRM, and work on cryptography and export control.

Before joining Sun, Landau was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University, and held visiting positions at Yale, Cornell, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. She also spent many summers teaching at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, a program for high-ability high school students (cf. Supporting a National Treasure).

Landau and Whitfield Diffie have written Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, which won the 1998 Donald McGannon Communication Policy Research Award, and the 1999 IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession (an updated and expanded edition was published in spring 2007.) Landau is also primary author of the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery report ``Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy.'' Prior to her work in policy, Landau did research in symbolic computation and algebraic algorithms, discovering several polynomial-time algorithms for problems that previously only had exponential-time solutions.

Landau is the recipient of the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an ACM Distinguished Engineer. She served for six years on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, as well as a member of the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, has been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Advisory Committee on Privacy and Security and ACM's Committee on Law and Computing Technology as well as an associate editor of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. She has appeared on NPR several times, and has had articles published in the ``Boston Globe,'' ``Chicago Tribune,'' ``Christian Science Monitor,'' ``Scientific American,'' ``Washington Post,'' as well as in numerous scientific journals. Landau received her PhD from MIT (1983), her MS from Cornell (1979), and her BA from Princeton (1976).

Contact Info:
Sun Microsystems

J.P.Ripley Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Christine Shoemaker is the Joseph P. Riley Professor of Engineering. After receiving her doctorate in mathematics, Professor Shoemaker joined the engineering faculty at Cornell. She is a member of the graduate fields in operations research, civil and environmental engineering, applied mathematics, and ecology.

Professor Shoemaker served as chairperson of the Department of Environmental Engineering from 1985 to 1988. She was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2003 and Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) in 2004. Shoemaker received the Humboldt Research Prize in 2001. In 1999, Professor Shoemaker was awarded the Julian Hinds Award, by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) "for her leadership and research in ecosystems management, water resources systems analysis, and groundwater modeling and protection." Professor Shoemaker has also worked to encourage women in Engineering; and for this work and for her research she received the "Distinguished Educator Award" from the national Society of Women Engineers in 1991.

Professor Shoemaker has participated in National Academy of Sciences panels on groundwater contamination and pest management. She has been Chair of an international SCOPE Committee on Groundwater Contamination and has organized workshops throughout the world. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Contact Info:
cas12@cornell.edu

Yuan Xue received her B.S. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1998 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and 2005. Currently she is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include wireless and sensor networks, peer-to-peer and overlay systems, QoS support, and network security. She is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Contact Info:
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vanderbilt University
http://vanets.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~xue/
(615) 322-2926
383 Jacobs Hall, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 351824, Nashville, TN 37235
yuan.xue@vanderbilt.edu