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Committee Member Biographical Information

CHARLES ISBELL, Co-Chair, is the chancellor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Previously, he was the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before that, he was the John P. Imlay Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech University. Dr. Isbell has played a prominent role in educational initiatives, holding leadership positions at both Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, where he was the senior associate dean for academic affairs, and on a national scale, co-chairing the Subcommittee on Education for the Computing Research Association. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Isbell was one of the co-leaders of the Threads reform of the undergraduate computing curriculum. Threads was a successful, comprehensive restructuring of the computing curriculum that provided a cohesive, coordinated set of contexts—or threads—for teaching and learning computing skills. The goal of the redesign was to make computing more inclusive, relevant, and exciting for a much broader student audience. Dr. Isbell has won numerous teaching awards and served on the Georgia Tech Human Resources Diversity Council Steering Committee, the Advisory Board for the Alliance for the Advancement of African American Researchers in Computing, and the Executive Committee of the Coalition to Diversify Computing (sponsored by the Computing Research Association, the Association for Computing Machinery [ACM], and the Association of Computer and Information Sciences Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions). He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Institute for African American e-Culture, a panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on Increasing the Participation of Minorities in the Computing Disciplines, and a speaker at the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. Dr. Isbell received his BS in information and computer science from Georgia Tech and his MSc and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) AI Lab.

MARIA KLAWE, Co-Chair, joined Math for America as the president in late 2023 after a 17-year term as Harvey Mudd College’s (HMC’s) fifth president. Prior to joining HMC, she served as the dean of engineering and a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Dr. Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she served in various roles from 1988 to 2002. Before her time at UBC, she spent 8 years with IBM Research in California and 2 years at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD (1977) and BSc (1973) in mathematics from the University of Alberta. Dr. Klawe is a member of the boards of Phenome Health and the nonprofits EdReports and the Museum of Mathematics. She has also served as a founding advisory board member of Parity.org, as a fellow for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a trustee for the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. Dr. Klawe was ranked 17 on Fortune’s 2014 list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

DAVID W. AUCSMITH is a senior principal research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. He has worked in a variety of security technology areas including secure computer systems, secure communications systems, security architecture, random number generation, cryptography and cryptographic systems, steganography, and network intrusion detection. Mr. Aucsmith is a former officer in the U.S. Navy and has written extensively on cybercrime, cyber espionage, and cyber warfare. He has been a representative to numerous international, government, and academic organizations including the National Academy of Sciences advisory board on Survivability and Lethality Analysis and the Directorate Advisory Council for the National Security Directorate of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is the co-chair of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Information Technology Study Group, a member of the President’s Task Force on National Defense and Computer Technology, and a member of the Department of Defense’s Global Information Grid Senior Industry Review Group. Mr. Aucsmith was also the U.S. industry representative to the G8 Committee on Organized, Transnational, and Technological Crime where he participated directly in the G8 summits in Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo.

M. BRIAN BLAKE is the president of Georgia State University, having been appointed to the position in June 2021. In this role, he oversees the State of Georgia’s largest university spanning 6 campuses and a community of more than 52,000 students (with more than 3,200 computer science majors). Georgia State is one of the most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse R1 universities in the nation. As an academic, Dr. Blake is a professor of computer science who has authored or co-authored more than 250 scholarly papers. He is most known for his contributions to the areas of interorganizational

workflow web-based software engineering. Dr. Blake has served on five National Academies’ studies or committees and on NSF’s Advisory Committee for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). He was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing and served as the vice president for publications for the IEEE Computer Society. Dr. Blake’s scholarly activities have been funded by more than $12 million in sponsored research awards from various government and commercial organizations. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a Fellow of the IEEE. Dr. Blake received his PhD in software engineering from George Mason University, MS in electrical engineering from Mercer University, and BS in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.

CARLA E. BRODLEY is the dean of inclusive computing and the founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University. Previously, she served as the dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and as the sole dean appointed to the Northeastern University Presidential Cabinet, serving as a senior advisor to President Aoun. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a professor of the Department of Computer Science and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Tufts Medical Center, and the chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Dr. Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning (ML) research led to advances not only in computer science but also in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, digital libraries, astrophysics, content-based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, chemistry, evidence-based medicine, and predictive medicine. Some of Dr. Brodley’s leadership positions include serving as the program co-chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning, the co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and serving as the associate editor of Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Dr. Brodley received her PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

AARON CLAUSET is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Clauset is an internationally recognized expert on network science, data science, and ML for complex systems. His research program is around two general themes: identifying fundamental principles of the organization and behavior of complex social and biological systems and developing approaches for using data and computation to illuminate those ideas. A major focus of this work has been on the “science of science,” where he studies the shape, origins, and consequences of social and epistemic inequalities on scientific careers, productivity, the spread of ideas, and the composition of the scientific workforce. He was awarded the 2016 Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science,

and since 2017, he has been a deputy editor responsible for the Social, Computing, and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Science Advances. He received a PhD in computer science, with distinction, from the University of New Mexico; a BS in physics, with honors, from Haverford College; and was an Omidyar Fellow at the prestigious Santa Fe Institute.

MARIAN R. CROAK (NAE) is the vice president of Responsible AI and Human Centered Technologies at Google. She was formerly a vice president for Site Reliability Engineering for Ads, Corporate Engineering, and YouTube at Google. Dr. Croak joined Google in late 2014 after retiring from AT&T as a senior vice president responsible for advanced research and innovation and designing and developing one of the world’s largest wireless and broadband networks. She managed more than 2,000 world class engineers and computer scientists. Dr. Croak holds more than 200 patents mostly focused on intellectual property technology. She has received numerous awards, including the 2013 and 2014 Edison Patent Awards, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International’s Hall of Fame in 2013. Dr. Croak is a strong supporter of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, served on many boards including the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and Catalyst, and personally mentors many individuals in STEM. She is currently a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the University of Southern California School of Engineering and the Schwartz Reisman Institute Advisory Board. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. Dr. Croak attended Princeton University and the University of Southern California where she received her PhD in quantitative analysis and social psychology.

ANN Q. GATES is the senior advisor to the provost for Strategic STEM Initiatives and the past senior vice provost of faculty affairs at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she holds the AT&T Distinguished Professorship. She also served as the chair of the Computer Science Department and associate vice president of research and sponsored projects. Dr. Gates is the executive director of the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, one of NSF’s National INCLUDES Alliances, a nationally recognized network focused on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Hispanics in computing. Dr. Gates serves on the NSF Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering. She was a founding member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure, served on the Board of Governors of IEEE-Computer Society, and was a member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Gates received the 2021 Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award, Great Minds in STEM’s 2015 Education Award, CRA’s 2015 A. Nico Habermann Award, 2010 Anita Borg Institute Social

Impact Award, and 2009 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing. She was named to Hispanic Business magazine’s 100 Influential Hispanics in 2006 for her work on the Affinity Research Group model. Dr. Gates received her PhD in computer science from New Mexico State University.

SUSANNE HAMBRUSCH is a professor of computer science at Purdue University. She served as the head of the Department of Computer Science from 2002–2007 and 2018–2019. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the director of the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division in CISE at NSF. Her research interests are in analysis of algorithms, computer science education, and parallel computation. Dr. Hambrusch is currently a board member of CRA’s Education committee where she served as the co-chair until 2022. She is a past CRA Board member, and she served as CRA’s vice chair 2015–2019. Dr. Hambrusch played a leading role in two computer science undergraduate enrollment efforts addressing the drivers of the recent surge enrollments: the National Academies consensus study report Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments, which she co-chaired, and the CRA study “Generation CS: CS Undergraduate Enrollments Surge Since 2006.” Currently, she is a member of the CSGrad4US Fellowship Mentoring team that developed and delivers the mentoring program for recipients of NSF’s CSGrad4US Graduate PhD Fellowships. She holds a Diplom Ingenieur in computer science from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in computer science from Penn State. She is a Fellow of the ACM.

DAVE LEVIN is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. Prior to this, he was a researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs. His research focuses on measuring and improving the security of the Internet, with particular focus on Internet censorship, online authentication, and mismanagement of cryptographic keys. Dr. Levin is also the chair of his department’s undergraduate honors program, through which he has introduced hundreds of undergraduate students to computer science research. Through his research laboratory, Breakerspace, he has advised nearly 80 undergraduate and high school students’ research, many of whom have published and continued on to graduate school. Dr. Levin’s work has resulted in multiple best paper awards, an IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Innovation, and his research mentorship has earned multiple awards, including an NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. He also serves on the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience. Dr. Levin earned his PhD from the University of Maryland.

SATHYA NARAYANAN is a professor of computer science at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and leads the institute of Computing Talent Initiative (CTI) as its founding director. His work, along with a team of educators, focuses on developing, testing, and refining a cohort-based bachelor’s degree model, which has resulted in significant increases in retention, transfer, graduation, and internship/job placement for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students. The state of California provided $10 million funding to establish CTI to unbundle and scale the impact of this model to serve students across the state. This work won an award for innovation in higher education from the state of California, as well as multiple NSF grants. A paper describing the model, “Upward Mobility for Underrepresented Students: A Model for a Cohort-Based Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science” won a best paper award at Special Interest Group Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2018 and was nominated for the SIGCSE Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time award. Dr. Narayanan received his master’s degree in computer applications from the College of Engineering, Guindy, India, in 1994, his MS in computer science from Temple University in 1998, and his PhD in computer science from New York University-Polytechnic University in 2006.

JENNIFER REXFORD (NAE, NAS) is the provost and Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, and professor of computer science at Princeton University. She served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton from 2015 to 2022. Before joining Princeton in 2005, Dr. Rexford worked for 8 years at AT&T Labs—Research. Dr. Rexford’s research focuses on computer networking with the goal of making future networks worthy of the trust society increasingly places in them. She is the co-author of the book Web Protocols and Practice (2001) and the co-editor of the book She’s an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect (1993). She received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, the ACM SIGCOMM award for lifetime contributions, and the IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Rexford is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. She received her BSE in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991 and her PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 1996.

MICHAEL ROACH is an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Gies College of Business at UIUC. Prior to UIUC, he was on the faculty at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Roach’s research investigates questions at the intersection of technology entrepreneurship and scientific labor markets,

with implications for both academic scholarship and policy. The primary focus of his research examines the early-career choices of STEM doctorates, especially as employees in technology start-ups and the impact of U.S. immigration policies on foreign-born doctorates. He also investigates the commercialization of university research discoveries through start-ups, with a focus on the composition of academic founding teams and the impact of university start-ups on regional economic development. Dr. Roach has published his research in leading management and science journals including Management Science, Research Policy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science. He was awarded the Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research and his research has been funded by grants from NSF. Dr. Roach received his PhD in strategy from Duke University and a bachelor of business administration in decision sciences from Georgia State University.

ROB A. RUTENBAR is the senior vice chancellor for research and a Distinguished Professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Abel Bliss Professor and head of computer science at UIUC, and before that, on the faculty in engineering at Carnegie Mellon University for 25 years. His research has focused on software tools for custom chip design, methods to model the statistics of nanoscale circuits, and computer architectures for ML and artificial intelligence tasks. At Illinois, he launched the successful CS+X interdisciplinary degree programs to educate students seeking pathways into not only computing but also the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other STEM disciplines. He received the 2001 Semiconductor Research Corporation Aristotle Award for his contributions to education and the 2021 ACM SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award for his work on chip design. He is an elected Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Rutenbar served on the National Academies’ Committee on Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective in 2018, focusing on how to prepare undergraduates for a data-driven future. He received his PhD in computer information and control engineering from the University of Michigan in 1984.

KELLY SHAW is a professor of computer science at Williams College. Prior to moving to Williams College in 2019, she was an assistant professor (2004) and associate professor (2010) of computer science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Richmond. Dr. Shaw’s primary research interests are in computer architecture, particularly parallel architectures. She has long been involved in efforts to support and encourage participation of undergraduate students in computer science

research and is currently the co-chair of CRA’s Committee on Education (CRA-E), including serving as a program leader for CRA’s mentoring program for the NSF CSGrad4US Fellowship. Dr. Shaw is also committed to making the computing field more diverse and inclusive and has served in a variety of organizer and speaker roles for efforts to broaden participation in computing, including for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and for CRA’s Committee on Widening Participation’s workshops. Dr. Shaw is a senior member of the ACM. She received her BS in computer science from Duke University in 1997 and her MS and PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2001 and 2005, respectively.

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