[1] Originally from England,[2] she works in the US as Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and director of the Software and Requirements Engineering Research Lab.
[3] Cleland-Huang grew up in Southern England, and briefly studied speech–language pathology in university before leaving England to work as an English teacher in Vietnamese refugee camps in Thailand, formed as part of the Indochina refugee crisis of the late 1970s.
She continued her work in Kolkata, India, and married a coworker, an American of Chinese descent.
[4] Cleland-Huang is the coauthor of Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development (with Mark Denne, Prentice-Hall, 2004).
She is the co-editor of Software and Systems Traceability (with Orlena Gotel and Andrea Zisman, Springer, 2012).