NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science, expected May 2009

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Science with Honors, December 2003

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology, May 1999

Research and Teaching Experience

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Computer Science
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

• (08/2006-Present) Research Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón: Project funded by the IBM PhD Fellowship award by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Research Triangle Park, NC;
  Papers: TSE'08, TOSEM'09, ASE'07, RHAS-6
  
  
• (08/2005-Present) Research Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón: Project funded by NSF ITR Encoding Rights, Permissions and Obligations: Privacy Policy Specification and Compliance (NSF #032-5269);
  Papers: POLICY'06, RE'06
  
  
• (01/2008-05/2008) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón: Assisted teaching the graduate course Requirements Engineering (CSC 591e/ 791e)
  
  
• (02/19/2008) Guest Lecturer: Taught software formal methods lesson in graduate course Software Engineering (CSC 510)
  
  
• (09/19/2008) Guest Lecturer: Taught software requirements engineering lesson in graduate course Software Engineering (CSC 510)
  
  
• (01/2005-05/2005) Research Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón: Project funded by NSF ITR CyberTrust Policy-Driven Framework for Online Privacy Protection (NSF #043-0166)
  Papers: POLICY'05, RE'05, WPES'05
  
  
• (09/2005-12/2005) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón: Assisted teaching the graduate course Software Engineering (CSC-510)

PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

• (05/2006-08/2006) Research Assistant to Dr. Annie Antón and Dr. Eugene Spafford: Project funded by NSF ITR CyberTrust Policy-Driven Framework for Online Privacy Protection (NSF #043-0166);

IBM TJ WATSON RESEARCH CENTER
Privacy Enabling Technology Group
Hawthorne, New York, USA

• (05/2005-08/2005) Research Assistant to Dr. John Karat: Analyzed three organizational security policies from finance, government and technology to identify elements for formal modeling;
  Papers: POLICY'06

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Applied Software Engineering Research Group
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

• (04/2004-08/2004) Research Assistant to Dr. Robert Patton: Preliminary research on terrorist attack scenario prediction from sparse intelligence; Identified and formalized methods for reducing polysemy in place name geo-location.
  
  
• (05/2003-08/2003): Research Assistant to Dr. Thomas E. Potok: Applied computational ontology to hierarchical clustering on semi-structured data.
  Papers: HICCS-38

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Department of Computer Science
Eugene, Oregon, USA

• (04/2004-08/2004) Teaching Assistant to Michael Hennessy: Led discussion sessions for Information Architecture and Intranets (CIT 382)

UNITED STATES PEACE CORPS
Bayanhongor, Mongolia

• (06/2000-07/2001) Peace Corp Volunteer assisting Ch. Battogtokh: Provided computer training to local teachers, students, and business professionals; Designed and implemented project plans with community and business leaders; Established the first Internet dial-up service in Bayan-Khongor, Mongolia.

(03/31/2008) North Carolina OPT-ED Mentoring and Diversity Workshop: The workshop presented issues affecting recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

(02/25/2008) CRA Academic Careers Mentoring Workshop: The workshop invites senior students and new faculty in the U.S. to learn effective mentoring, networking, grant writing and other strategies necessary to be a successful candidate for academic tenure (Travel Award).

(11/06/2006) Doctoral Symposium: Presenter, ACM/SIGSOFT 14th Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering.

(05/23/2006) Doctoral Symposium: Invited Guest, IEEE 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (Travel Award).

(2006-2009) IBM Ph.D. Fellowship: The fellowship program is an annual, worldwide competitive program that honors exceptional Ph.D. students in an a variety of focus areas including computer science. The 2006-2007 competition cycle had over 500 student nominations and only 52 award recipients.

(2008-2009) Preparing the Professoriate: The program is an annual, university-wide competition that pairs exceptional Ph.D. students with distinguished faculty mentors, combining hands-on teaching and evaluation with nine seminars on teaching and academic career-related topics.

(2006-2007) Walter H. Wilkinson Research Ethics Fellowship: The fellowship is a university-wide competition that requires fellows to conduct an in-depth study of research ethics for one academic year, exploring guidelines for professional conduct and ethical decision-making.

(2005-2006) CISCO Systems Information Assurance Scholarship: The scholarship is awarded to students who make a significant contribution to Information Security and Assurance.

(2004-2005) President of the Computer Science Graduate Student Association: Elected President for the academic year 2004-2005; in that year, the association represented the interests of 384 graduates students (127 Doctoral, 257 Masters) in the Department of Computer Science at NCSU.

(2003-2004) Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholars: CSEM scholars are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), receive mentoring from department faculty and participate in a regular lecture series.

(2000-2001) Peace Corps Volunteer Representative: Elected in August 2000; in that year, eight representatives represented the interests of 81 volunteers from across Mongolia to the local Peace Corps administration.

Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), since Aug. 2003
Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), since Aug. 2006
Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since Jan. 2004
Member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE Computer), since Jan. 2006
Member of The Privacy Place (TPP), a CERIAS Affiliate, since Sep. 2004
Member of the IBM Data Governance Council, from Feb. 2005-2006
Member of the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM (USACM), since Jun. 2006

Program Committee Co-chair, 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW'08), co-located with RE'08, Barcelona, Spain, September 8th, 2008.

Program Committee Member, Workshop on Privacy and Security in Wireless Mobility (SecPri_WiMob), co-located with 4th IEEE WiMob, Avignon, France, October 12th, 2008.

Program Committee Member, Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS'08), Co-located with ARES'08, Barcelona, Spain, March 4-7th, 2008.

Ph.D. Student Panelist, ACM/SIGSOFT 14th Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-14), Inspirations Program, Portland, OR, USA, November 5th 2006.

Organizing Committee Member, Preparing the Faculty Candidate: Recruiter and New Faculty Perspectives, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 13th 2007.

Steering Committee Member, Land Grant University Research Ethics (LANGURE) Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 2006-2007.

Student Volunteer, ACM/IEEE 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'08), Leipzig, Germany, May 10th-18th, 2008.

Student Volunteer, ACM/SIGSOFT 14th Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-14), Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5th-11th, 2006.

Student Volunteer, IEEE 13th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'03), Monterrey, California, USA, September 8th-12th, 2003.

Reviewer, Elsevier Computer Standards and Interfaces, since 2008.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, since 2007.
Reviewer, Elsevier Computers and Security, since 2007.
Reviewer, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, 2006.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, since 2005.

See the separate publications page.

Legal Requirements: From Theory to Practice [ PDF ]
(29 February 2008) IFIP WG 2.9 on Requirements Engineering
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Beliefs, Determinations and Agreements: Contextualizing Privacy in Practice [ PDF ]
(29 January 2008) Carolina Privacy Official's Network
Raleigh, NC, USA

Ethics in Computer Science: Technologists and Value-free Technology [ PDF ]
(8 December 2006) Annual Fall NCSU Computer Science Seminar Series
Raleigh, NC, USA

What Do Organizational Security Policies Say About Security? [ PDF ]
(28 July 2005) IBM TJ Watson Research Center (TJW)
Hawthorne, New York, USA

Information Analysis Techniques Using Upper Ontology Languages [ HTML ]
(6 August 2003) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

A Systematic Method for Acquiring Regulatory Requirements: A Frame-Based Approach [ PDF ]
(15 October 2007) 6th Int'l Workshop on Requirements for High Assurance Systems (RHAS-6)
Delhi, India

The Frame-Based Requirements Analysis Methodology (FBRAM)
(17 August 2007) Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Raleigh, NC, USA

Compliance Engineering: Aligning Software Requirements with Policies and Regulations
(6 November 2006) ACM/SIGSOFT 14th Symp. on Foundations of Soft. Engr. (FSE-14), Doctoral Symposium
Portland, OR, USA

Towards Compliance: Extracting Rights and Obligations to Align Requirements with Regulations [ PDF ]
(13 September 2006) IEEE 14th Int'l Conf. on Requirements Engineering (RE'06)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Enforceability vs. Accountability in Electronic Policies [ PDF ]
(8 June 2006) IEEE 7th Int'l Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'06)
London, Ontario, Canada

Mining Rule Semantics to Understand Legislative Compliance [ PDF ]
(7 November 2005) 2005 ACM Workshop on Privacy In Electronic Society (WPES'05)
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Analyzing Goal Semantics for Rights, Permissions and Obligations [ PDF ]
(1 September 2005) IEEE 13th Int'l Conf. on Requirements Engineering (RE'05)
Paris, France

Deriving Semantic Models from Privacy Policies [ PDF ]
(6 June 2005) IEEE 6th Int'l Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'05)
Stockholm, Sweden

Rights, Obligations and Suggestions: Encoding Rules from Privacy Law [ PDF ]
(14 March 2004) The Privacy Place Spring 2005 Workshop (TTP-S05)
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Semantic Parameterization of Privacy Goals [ PDF ]
(19 October 2004) The Privacy Place Fall 2004 Workshop (TTP-F04)
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

The Effect of Ambiguity on Legal Conformance in Information Systems
(19 March 2008) NCSU 3rd Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC, USA

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance: Aligning Software Systems with Regulatory Models
(27 October 2006) IBM University Day, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Open Seminar: Open Courseware in Privacy and Security
(23 March 2005) CERIAS 6th Annual Information Security Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA