Nancy Davis Griffeth

Who is Nancy Davis Griffeth?

Dr. Nancy D. Griffeth is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College of The City University of New York. She did seminal work in defining the feature interaction problem and organizing a community of researchers around the Feature Interaction Workshops to study the problem. Also, she was an author of the most frequently-cited paper on feature interactions

Her current research interests include testing networks to determine whether they interoperate correctly; modeling network protocols for test case generation; and management of interactions between network protocols. Her previous work in the Next Generation Networking Lab at Lucent Technologies included interoperability testing of Voice over IP networks.

She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, lived in Laurel, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee as a child, and attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, Michigan State University for her master's, and the University of Chicago for her doctorate.

In 1995, Dr. Griffeth was chosen one of the Top 100 Women in Computing by McGraw-Hill's Women in Computing Newsletter for her work in feature interactions in telecommunications systems, distributed systems, and databases