Mary Jean Harrold was an American computer scientist noted for her research on software engineering.
Education
Harrold received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1970 and a Master of Surgery in Mathematics in 1975, both from Marshall University. She then attended graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a Master of Surgery in Computer Science in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in 1988, both from University of Pittsburgh.
Career
She was also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was on the boards of both CRA and CRA-West and was Company-Chair of CRA-West from 2003-2006. Harrold taught secondary mathematics in West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania from 1970-1982.
Her dissertation adviser was Professor
Mary Lou Soffa. She stayed at the University of Pittsburgh as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Then in 1990 she started at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995.
In 1996 she started as an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998. In 1999, she moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor in 2003.
Harrold was involved with the SIGSOFT community.
She was General Chair of the conference SIGSOFT in 2008.
Membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.