Mark Poepping is Head IT Architect in the central Computing Services
organization at Carnegie Mellon. His research activities include EDDY
Project co-PI and co-lead of CyDAT, the Cyber-center for Diagnostics,
Analytics, and Telemetry within CyLab at Carnegie Mellon.
Mark joined Carnegie Mellon at the Software Engineering Institute
in 1985 and contributed on the original Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT) efforts in 1988.
As Head IT Architect for Computing Services, Mark is responsible
for leadership in long-range technology and mid-range architecture
to guide designs in the computing infrastructure and environment
for the local and global campus.
Mark is co-PI of EDDY (End-to-end-Diagnostic-DiscoverY), an effort
to establish an architecture and experimental base for orchestration
and analysis of diagnostic and performance data of large distributed
systems (http://www.cmu.edu/eddy).
This effort has expanded into CyDAT, an effort to advance the
quality of tools and methods for situational awareness in
distributed IT-enabled systems, and specifically to help
facilitate safe access to operational data for research purposes.
Mark received his BS in Mathematics in 1980 from St. John's
University in Collegeville, MN, and an MS in Computer Science
in 1982 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He is chair of the Internet2 security advisory committee (Salsa),
a charter member of the Internet2 middleware committee (MACE),
and member of the EduCause IT Architecture constituency group.