Grace Lewis

Grace Lewis is a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), where she conducts applied research on how software engineering principles, practices, and tools need to evolve in the face of emerging technologies. She is the principal investigator for the Establishing the Practice of Integrated Test and Evaluation for ML Capabilities project, in addition to other projects that are advancing the state of the practice of software engineering for AI-enabled systems.

Grace is also the lead for the Enabling Edge Intelligence (E2I) applied research and development team at the SEI that is creating and transitioning innovative solutions, principles, and best practices for

• agentic AI for edge intelligence
• software engineering to support edge missions
• resource management for edge systems
• adaptive systems for mission resilience

She is also the 2026 President of the IEEE Computer Society. Grace holds a B.Sc. in Software Systems Engineering and a Post-Graduate Specialization in Business Administration from Icesi University in Cali, Colombia; a Master in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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