Grace A. Lewis

Grace Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) where she conducts applied research on how software engineering and software architecture principles, practices and tools need to evolve in the face of emerging technologies. She is the principal investigator for the Establishing the Practice of Integrated Test and Evaluation for ML Capabilities project, in addition to other projects that are advancing the state of the practice in software engineering for machine learning (SE4ML). Grace is also the lead for the Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems (TAS) applied research and development team at the SEI that is creating and transitioning innovative solutions, principles, and best practices for (1) architecting and developing systems to support teams operating at the tactical edge in resource-constrained environments, (2) engineering AI software systems, and (3) using AI/ML at the edge for improved capabilities and mission support. She is currently President-Elect of the IEEE Computer Society and the Society Representative on the IEEE Future Directions Committee for the AI Coalition. Grace holds a B.Sc. in Software Systems Engineering and a Post-Graduate Specialization in Business Administration from Icesi University in Cali, Colombia; a Master in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

2025 IEEE Computer Society President-Elect, 2025 Executive Committee
2024 First Vice President, 2024 Executive Committee
2023 Second Vice President, 2023 Executive Committee
2023 Vice President, Technical & Conference Activities
2022 Vice President, Technical & Conference Activities, 2022 Executive Committee
2021 Vice President, Technical & Conference Activities, 2021 Executive Committee
2020-2022 Board of Governors
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