# Suzanne Barber **Domain:** Austin Research / People **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. **K. Suzanne Barber** is the UT researcher whose documented funding history connects distributed-agent systems, chemical-biological incident response, IED prediction, terrorism detection, [[wiki/Biosurveillance|biosurveillance]] [[wiki/Source Trust Tuple|source trust]], and biometric identity. This research continuity makes her a central person node in the DHS addendum. ## Grant-record sequence - **2005–2008:** ONR’s [[wiki/Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks|Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks]] (SPIED). - **2006–2008:** ONR’s [[wiki/REBIT|REBIT]] work on beliefs, intentions, and threats in maritime-domain awareness. - **2009:** DHS’s [[wiki/Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks|Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks]]. - **2014–2017:** the CV’s performance period for [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|DTRA]]’s [[wiki/Surety BioEvent App|Surety BioEvent App]], with Meyers and Ellington. - **2017–2018:** DHS OBIM’s Biometrics Opportunity Architecture work. The UT CV gives the 2009 DHS project as **September 1–November 30, 2009, $40,000**. It records BioEvent at **$2,771,939**. These are specific grant-record facts; the titles alone do not establish the deployment history or effectiveness of each project. [UT CV, p. 29](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29). ## Computational continuity The connection is the treatment of heterogeneous observations as evidence for a decision. A system must identify sources, assess reliability, maintain beliefs, infer threat or biological state, and select an action. In BioEvent this becomes an explicit six-dimensional source-trust representation and goal-dependent optimization. The same researcher moving across these sponsored domains provides a firmer research genealogy than shared terminology alone. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks|Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks]] · [[wiki/Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks|Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks]] · [[wiki/REBIT|REBIT]] · [[wiki/Surety BioEvent App|Surety BioEvent App]] · [[wiki/Source Trust Tuple|Source Trust Tuple]] · [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] · [[wiki/Andy Ellington|Andy Ellington]] · [[wiki/Office of Biometric Identity Management|Office of Biometric Identity Management]] · [[wiki/National Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program|National Biological and Chemical Countermeasures Program]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]] · [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|Defense Threat Reduction Agency]] · [[wiki/Epidemiological and Threat Network Analysis|Epidemiological and Threat Network Analysis]] · [[wiki/Office of Naval Research|Office of Naval Research]] · [[wiki/United States Department of Homeland Security|United States Department of Homeland Security]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [[research/Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism|Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism]] - [K. Suzanne Barber — UT curriculum vitae, p. 29](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29) - [Prof. Suzanne Barber Awarded DTRA Grant for Work on Surety BioEvent App](https://ece.utexas.edu/news/prof-suzanne-barber-awarded-dtra-grant-work-surety-bioevent-app) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]] <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD --> ## The surveillance-field genealogy The new essay follows the migration of the trust problem from distributed agents and chem-bio response through IED prediction, sensor/social-network terrorism detection, biosurveillance, and identity. The exact **2009 DHS title** remains a central junction. BioEvent asks which sources should shape a changing estimate, while police-sharing systems raise related questions about source provenance, stale records, and the authority to act. [[wiki/Observation and Human-Subject Research|The observation/research distinction]] and [[wiki/Fusion Center Oversight|the oversight record]] preserve the relevant project and evidence boundaries. A documented research genealogy is assessed independently of a proposed operational use involving particular people. **Follow:** [[wiki/Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks|Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks]] · [[wiki/Population State Estimation|Population State Estimation]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] **Source:** [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]]; [UT — Suzanne Barber CV, grant history](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29); [UT ECE — Surety BioEvent grant announcement, September 3, 2013](https://ece.utexas.edu/news/prof-suzanne-barber-awarded-dtra-grant-work-surety-bioevent-app). <!-- END AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD -->