Past Profiles of Women in Research Labs

Nina Taft is a senior research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley.
Her research has focused on networking problems such as routing, protocol design, capacity
planning for ISP networks, and network reliability.
Nina's approach has centered on collecting Internet traffic measurements, characterizing the data, and using the information to better design networks. As such she has studied the application of both optimization and data mining to develop methodologies for data-driven network design. Nina is considered one of the pioneers of the field of Internet traffic matrix estimation, having contributed both first and second generation techniques as well as having developed applications for traffic matrix datasets, in the areas of security and routing. More
recently, Nina is working on security problems for enterprise networks, with an emphasis on end-host based techniques.

Prior to joining Intel, Nina was a researcher at Sprint Labs in Burlingame, CA. From 1994-1999, Nina worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. She received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. She is actively involved on various program and organizing committees. Nina was was the PC co-chair for the ACM SIGCOMM conference, held in Kyoto, Japan in 2007. She served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN) journal for 4 years , and is a member of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference steering committee. She has published over 50 technical papers, served on over 20 program and executive conference committees, and holds 10 patents.

Nina is the mother of twins that are in elementary school. She is passionate about her hobbies which include music (she plays both piano and violin), languages, cooking and traveling. She is a strong believer in the importance of work/life balance and feels that it is especially important for women not to be afraid to set an example in the corporate workplace. Accordingly, she makes sure that there is time in her busy life for her family and interests.

Sadaf Alam is a member of Scientific Computing group at the National
Center for Computational Sciences, the leadership supercomputing
facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she is a
primary liaison for computational biology groups that have won U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Science awards to perform breakthrough
science simulations in bio-energy and drug discovery fields. Dr Alam is
also a researcher in the Future Technologies group (Computer Science and
Mathematics Division at ORNL) that explores, investigates, and evaluates
next-generation computing, networking and storage technologies for
mission critical applications. Her research interests include
programming languages and models, and architecture for emerging high
performance computing (HPC) systems and performance studies of
supercomputing platforms and scientific HPC applications. She has
published and has served as a program committee member and reviewer for
international computer and computational science conferences and
journals. She earned her PhD in computer science degree from the
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2004. She is a member of
IEEE and IEEE Women in Engineering.

Carrie Gates is a Research Staff Member with CA Labs, where she is
responsible for identifying opportunities within the business units at CA
that can be transformed into research relationships performed in
collaboration with university, government and industry partners. Prior to
joining CA, Dr. Gates was an analyst with CERT, Carnegie Mellon University.
Before starting her PhD, Dr. Gates managed a systems administration team for
the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, where she gained
operational experience in security deployment, intrusion response, and
collaboration with law enforcement.

Dr. Gates' primary research focus within CA is on enterprise-level security.
In particular, her recent focus has been on insider threat, policy
discovery, network traffic visualization and usability / usable security.
In the past she has done work in network security, large scale traffic
analysis, and testing methodologies for security algorithms. She has
written over thirty published articles and technical reports, and given
several invited talks.

Dr. Gates is actively involved on various program and organizing committees.
She was the general co-chair for the First International Symposium on Global
Information Governance, held in Pisa, Italy, in 2008. She is currently on
the program committees for the Annual Computer Security Applications
Conference (ACSAC), New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), and the Workshop
on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec). To maintain an operational
perspective, she has been a member of the security team for the
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage
and Analysis (SuperComputing) since 2005.

Dr. Gates received her PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada, in 2006.

Deborah Frincke joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2004 as Chief Scientist for CyberSecu
rity. Prior to joining PNNL, Dr. Frincke was a (Full) Professor at the University of Idaho, and co-founde
r/co-director of the U Idaho Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, one of the first such institution
s to receive NSAs designation of a national Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. She
is an enthusiastic charter member of the Department of Energys cyber security grass roots community.

Dr. Frinckes research spans a broad cross section of computer security, both open and classified, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure defense and computer security education. She co-founded TriGeo Network Systems, which was recently positioned by Garner in the Leaders Quadrant for security information and event management. She has written over eighty published articles and technical reports.

Dr. Frincke is an active member of several editorial boards, including: Journal of Computer Security, the Elsevier International Journal of Computer Networks, and the International Journal of Information and Computer Security. She co-edits the Security Education Board column for IEEE Security and Privacy, along with Matt Bishop. She is a steering committee member for Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) and Systematic Advances in Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE). She is a member of numerous advisory boards, including the University of Washingtons Governing Board for the I-Schools Center for Cyber Security an
d Information Assurance and the State of Idahos NASA/EPSCOR Technical Advisory Committee.

Dr. Frincke received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in 1992.

Carolyn Talcott is a Program Manager in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI
International, where she leads the Symbolic Systems Technology group and the
Pathway Logic Project. Prior to coming to SRI, she was a Senior Research
Associate in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. At SRI
Carolyn is leading research in symbolic systems biology, security protocol
analysis, and formal analysis applied to embedded systems and next-generation
networks. Symbolic systems biology involves using logical formalisms to
represent knowledge and theories about biological system and using formal
methods tools to analyze the resulting models and compare predictions to
experimental observations.

Carolyn is co-editor-in-chief the International Journal Higher-Order and
Symbolic Computation. She regularly serves on program committees of
international conferences, and co-organized several DARPA and NSF workshops. She
has given invited lectures at universities and research institutions in the US,
Europe, Australia, Japan, and Korea.

Carolyn holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1985) and a
Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1966). She has
over 20 years experience in formal modeling and analysis. For the last 6 years
she has also been working in symbolic systems biology. She is the (co) author of
more than 100 papers on topics including mathematics, theoretical chemistry,
semantics, actors, networks, and computational biology. She enjoys swimming and
playing the flute. She has one son who is now attending San Francisco State
University.