Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis

Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis has led Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute INI) since 2004. Under her leadership, the INI has graduated over 1,500 students from master’s degree programs in information networking, information security and IoT engineering. To address the unique challenges faced by women in STEM, she co-founded the student organization, Women@INI. Dena serves on the EWF Board of Advisors and received the Women of Influence Award presented by CSO Magazine and EWF in 2008. In 2017, Dena received the endowed Barbara Lazarus Professorship in Information Networking.