Dr. Ipek Ozkaya is a principal researcher and the technical director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the Software Engineering Institute. Her areas of work include software architecture, software design automation, and managing technical debt in software-reliant and AI-enabled systems. At the SEI she has worked with several government and industry organizations in domains including avionics, power and automation, IoT, healthcare, and IT. Ozkaya is the co-author of a practitioner book titled Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development.