Kari Nies is a Research Programmer/Analyst in the Institute for Software Research affiliated with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She works with faculty and students on government and industry funded research grants. Her current interests are in the areas of architecture-based software development - in particular, in dyamic architecture-based adaptation, self-adapting software, and software architectures that support security - as well as in security awareness and visualizations for system security.