Bio: Dr. Nancy R. Mead is a Fellow at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on security requirements engineering and software assurance curricula. She previously served as SEI’s director of education (1991–1994). With over 150 publications, her research interests span software security and requirements engineering. Before SEI, Mead was a senior technical staff member at IBM Federal Systems, working on large real-time systems and managing IBM’s software engineering education. She has developed and taught software engineering courses for both academic and professional audiences. Mead serves on editorial boards for the International Journal of Systems and Software Security and Protection and the Requirements Engineering Journal, and holds memberships on the IEEE TCSE Executive Committee and the Open University Advisory Board. A Fellow of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM, she has received the IEEE Distinguished Education Award (2015) and was named a Parnas Fellow at Lero in 2019.