Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology
The overall goal of Dr. Harrold’s research is to develop efficient techniques and tools that will automate, or partially automate, development, testing, and maintenance tasks. Her research to date has involved program analysis based software engineering, with an emphasis on regression testing, analysis and testing of imperative and object-oriented software, development of software tools, and investigation of the scalability issues of these techniques, through algorithm development and empirical evaluation.
Carla Ellis, Duke University
Carla Ellis is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1979. Before coming to Duke as an Associate Professor in 1986, she was a member of the Computer Science faculties at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, from 1980 to 1986. She is on the board of the Computing Research Association (CRA), a member of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), Co-Chair of the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT), and is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computing Systems. Her research interests are in operating systems, mobile computing, and sensor networks.