Carol is a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where she is the director of the Scientific Solutions group. She leads the group in developing cyberinfrastructure to support scientific research and educational needs through collaboration with faculty and researchers at Purdue, elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally. Most recently, she leads a number of NSF funded projects, including the NSF TeraGrid project at Purdue and the DRINET data interoperability project as the principal investigator. Prior to joining Purdue, she worked in industry for eight years leading development of software products and standards for network medical imaging technologies, and publishing and storage solutions. She also founded and ran her own software company at Purdue Research Park, funded by NSF SBIR and Indiana 21st Century grants, developing mobile computing software solutions. She worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC when the center was first created and developed one of the first scientific visualization tools used in academic. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. in computer science in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion for her study of the temporary consistency problem in real-time systems.