BIOGRAPHY:

Carla E. Brodley is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst in 1994. From 1994-2004, she was on the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Professor Brodley's research interests include machine learning, knowledge discovery in databases and computer security. She has worked in the areas of intrusion detection, anomaly detection in networks, hardware support for security, classifier formation, unsupervised learning and applications of machine learning to remote sensing, computer security, digital libraries, astrophysics, content-based image retrieval of medical images, computational biology, saliva diagnostics, and chemistry.

In 2004-2005 she was a member of the Defense Science Study Group. She served as acting chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts during the 2005/2006 academic year. In 2001 she served as program co-chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and in 2004, she served as the general chair for ICML. Currently she is on the editorial boards of the Journal for Machine Learning Research, Computers and Security, and the Machine Learning Journal. She is a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W).