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Dr. Stephanie Forrest is a Professor at Arizona State University's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) and serves as Director of the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation, Security and Society. She is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as External Faculty and the ASU-SFI Fellowship.
- Education: B.A. from St. John's College and M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Her research spans the biology of computation and computation in biology, including computational immunology, cybersecurity, automated software repair, evolutionary computation, and complex systems. Recent work focuses on GPU code optimization, malware analysis, and privacy-preserving wastewater epidemiology.
Her publications (15 most recent) reveal trends in evolutionary algorithms for software repair, cybersecurity frameworks inspired by biological systems, and high-performance computing applications in epidemiology and genetics. Awards include IEEE S&P Test of Time (2020), ACM/AAAI Allen Newell (2011), and ICSE Most Influential Paper (2019).
- Cybersecurity: Developed anomaly detection, instruction-set randomization, and CRISPR-inspired DoS mitigation.
- Software Repair: Pioneered biologically inspired methods for bug fixing, vulnerability closure, and energy optimization.
- Biological Modeling: Agent-based simulations of SARS-CoV-2 spread, cancer evolution, and immune system dynamics.
