Stephanie Forrest
Stephanie Forrest (born ca 1958) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is best known for her work in adaptive systems, including genetic algorithms,[1] computational immunology, biological modeling, automated software repair,[2] and computer security.
Biography
After her BA from St. John's College in 1977, Forrest studied Computer and Communication Sciences at the University of Michigan, where she received her MS in 1982 and in 1985 her PhD with a thesis entitled "A study of parallelism in the classifier system and its application to classification in KL-ONE semantic networks."
After graduation Forrest started worked for Teknowledge Inc. and worked at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1990 she joined the University of New Mexico, where she is appointed Professor of Computer Science and directs the Computer Immune Systems Group, ad the Adaptive Computation Laboratory. From 2006 to 2011 she chaired the Computer Science Department. In the 1990s she is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, where she was Interim Vice President in the year 1999 to 2000.[3]
Forrest was awarded in 1991 the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, in 2009 the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software, and in 2011 the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award.
Work
Forrest's research interests are in the field of "adaptive systems, including genetic algorithms, computational immunology, biological modeling, automated software repair, and computer security."[4]
According to the National Academies her research since the 1990s has included "developing the first practical anomaly intrusion-detection system; designing automated responses to cyberattacks; writing an early influential paper proposing automatic diversity and introducing instruction-set randomization as a particular implementation; developing noncryptographic privacy-enhancing data representations; agent-based modeling of large-scale computational networks; and recently, work on automated repair of security vulnerabilities. She has conducted many computational modeling projects in biology, where her specialties are immunology and evolutionary diseases, such as Influenza and cancer..."[3]
Selected bibliography
Forrest has authored and co-authored many publications in her field of expertise.[5] A selection:
- Forrest, Stephanie, et al. "Self-nonself discrimination in a computer." Research in Security and Privacy, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on. Ieee, 1994.
- Forrest, Stephanie, et al. "A sense of self for unix processes." Security and Privacy, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE Symposium on. IEEE, 1996.
- Hofmeyr, Steven A., Stephanie Forrest, and Anil Somayaji. "Intrusion detection using sequences of system calls." Journal of computer security 6.3 (1998): 151-180.
- Warrender, Christina, Stephanie Forrest, and Barak Pearlmutter. "Detecting intrusions using system calls: Alternative data models." Security and Privacy, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on. IEEE, 1999.
- Hofmeyr, Steven A., and Stephanie Forrest. "Architecture for an artificial immune system." Evolutionary computation 8.4 (2000): 443-473.
A more complete list can be found on Dr. Forrest's website
References
- ↑ Genetic algorithms and artificial life M. Mitchell and S. Forrest. Artificial Life, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1994), pp. 267-289. Reprinted in C. G. Langton (Ed.) Artificial Life: an Overview, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1995)
- ↑ A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 Bugs for $8.00 Each C. Le Goues, M. Dewey-Vogt, S. Forrest, and W. Weimer. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'12) (2012)
- 1 2 Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico, Jefferson Science Fellowship at nationalacademies.org. Accessed 11 November 2013.
- ↑ STEPHANIE FORREST Science Board, External Professor at santafe.edu, 2013.
- ↑ Stephanie Forrest Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of New Mexico at Google Scholar.
External links
- Stephanie Forrest at the University of New Mexico