Nancy Leveson
Computer Scientist
Who is Nancy Leveson?
Nancy G. Leveson is a leading American expert in system and software safety. She is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States.
Nancy Leveson gained her degrees from UCLA, including her PhD in 1980. Previously she worked at University of California, Irvine and the University of Washington as a faculty member. She has studied safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System for the avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine.
Leveson has been editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. She has held memberships in the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, System Safety Society, and AIAA.
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Employment
- University of California, Irvine
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Washington
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on July 23, 2013
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