Anandi Hira leads research to advance the state of the art in software cost estimation and supports programs with the resulting estimation and measurement processes in her current role at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Her most recent research objective is to develop a new, innovative, capability-based software cost estimation model. Anandi received her PhD in software cost estimation under Dr. Barry Boehm at the University of Southern California (USC), where she collected software development data and calibrated the COCOMO® II software cost estimation model for functional size metrics.