Denise Ecklund received BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from Illinois State University. For 10 years, she worked as a software systems architect at Intel Corporation. During that time, Denise architected numerous parallel and distributed data management tools and applications. Working with other major software companies, she designed the Common Data Security Architecture and led the specification through standardization by the Open Group in 1999. Working with the Intel Foundation, she gave talks at U.S. universities and mentored local university students.
Following Intel, Denise has held two overseas research posts at the University of Oslo and the National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh. She continues to work with postgraduate students and to apply her distributed architecture skills solving data management problems for video and scientific data.
Degrees
Ph.D. Computer Science, 1987