Barber, Suzanne

Biography:

Dr. Suzanne Barber is Director of the Center for Excellence in Distributed Global Environments (EDGE http://www.edge.utexas.edu ). EDGE is a cross-disciplinary center where departments throughout The University of Texas are working together to revolutionize how distributed engineering teams, distributed computation, and distributed information exchange insure the effective and efficient use, delivery and security of software systems. Dr. Barber holds the Southwestern Bell Professorship and is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin. As Director of The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems, she pursues her personal research interests with her students addressing (1) in-depth, iterative, and coordinated design and analysis of software systems among distributed teams as well as (2) information assurance and coordination for distributed agent-based software systems.

Dr. Barber has published over 200 articles in refereed conference proceedings, journals, and book chapters, and holds copyrights for innovated software engineering analysis and design environments as well as an agent-based design, experimentation and simulation environment. Dr. Barber’s research has been supported by a range of sponsors from federal government, commercial companies and foundations such as DARPA, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Labs, National Cancer Institute, U.S. Congress, Motorola, Schlumberger, and ScenPro. Professionally, Dr. Barber has served on numerous conference and government committees (Defense Science Study Group, Army Science Board, Multi-Agent Survivability and Security Conference, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems). As Director of Software Engineering academic programs at The University of Texas, Dr. Barber leads educational initiatives for undergraduates, full-time graduate students, and working professionals. As an example, Dr. Barber directs the Executive M.S. Degree Program in Software Engineering program offering an advanced software engineering education with scheduling to allow professionals to obtain a Master's Degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering while working full-time.