Dr. Annie I. Anton
Professor
3280 EB II Phone: 919-515-5764
Fax: 919-513-1895
Email: aianton AT ncsu.edu
Web Site: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aianton/
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Dr. Antón's research focuses on methods and tools to support the specification of complete, correct behavior of software systems used in environments that pose risks of loss as a consequence of failures and misuse. This includes Web-based and e-commerce systems in which the security of personal and private information is particularly vulnerable. To this end, she has developed a leadership role in research, education and outreach with her three current initiatives.
Antón is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research group of students and faculty at NCSU and Georgia Tech. She is leading this group in the development of technology to assist practitioners and policy makers in meeting the challenge of eliciting and expressing policies (a form of requirements). These tools help ensure that privacy policies are aligned with the software systems that they govern. One such tool to support the discovery, elaboration and management of system use scenarios for the validation of software requirements and policies, is SMaRT (Scenario Management and Requirements Tool).
Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop systems that are in compliance with security and privacy policies.
Her professional activities include a notable combination of multi-disciplinary research and education. She is co-founder of the Annual Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS), which has bridged the gap between the software engineering and information security research communities. She also coordinated NC State's successful application for a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, involving the participation of faculty in three Colleges. She is the cognitive issues subject area editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal.
Research
Interests
Software engineering, requirements engineering, information privacy and security, policy, software processes, web-based software applications and management information systems.
Education
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, Georgia
Ph.D. in Computer Science, June 1997
Minor in Management & Public Policy
M.S. in Information and Computer Science, June 1992
B.S. in Information and Computer Science, June 1990
Minor in Technical and Business Communication
Awards
NSF CAREER Award (2000)
CRA Digital Government Fellow (2002)
Public Sector Women of Influence Award-- Sponsored by CSO Magazine & Executive Womens Forum (2005)
Elected member of IFIP Working Group 2.9 - Software Requirements Engineering (2001)
Defense Science Study Group (2004-2005)
IEEE Senior Member (2003)
NCSU Pride of the Wolfpack Award (2003)
Publications
Link to Dr. Anton's Publications
