Dr. Nancy Mead is currently leading a research effort in Survivable Network Architectures at the software Engineering Institute, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently involved in the study of survivable systems architectures, and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. She has also served as Director of Education for the SEI from 1991-1994. Her research interests are in the areas of software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics, and real-time systems.

Prior to joining the SEI, Dr. Mead was a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her career in 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. She has a BA and MS in Mathematics from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, a member of ACM, and is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America. She has served on numerous professional boards and committees, and is an international speaker.