Lieggi UCSC OSPO profile

Citation

Open Source Program Office (OSPO), UC Santa Cruz. “Stephanie Lieggi, Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz.” Profile page, publication date unknown (publications to 2025). https://ucsc-ospo.github.io/author/stephanie-lieggi/. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

Stephanie C. Lieggi leads the UC Santa Cruz OSPO and the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS). She “led the effort to create an OSPO Network in the University of California system.”
She was a co-PI on UC Santa Cruz’s first NSF Pathways to Enable Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) grant.
Before CROSS she researched national security and trade controls at the Middlebury Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Background

Her profile on the UC Santa Cruz OSPO site. It has a bio and selected publications.

Key claims

She “started at the UCSC Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) in 2016.” (bio)
She co-chairs “the metrics focused CHAOSS University Working Group”. (bio)
“Stephanie was also a co-PI on UCSC’s first National Science Foundation’s Pathways to Enable Open Source Ecosystem (POSE) grant.” (bio)
Before CROSS, she was “a senior researcher and adjunct professor at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where she researched the intersection of national security and global trade.” (bio)
A forthcoming report: “Securing Open Source: Applying the Logic of Post-9/11 Trade Security to the Software Supply Chain”. (Selected Publications)
A November 2023 response to the Office of the National Cyber Director’s request for information on open-source software security. (Selected Publications)
She co-wrote “Policy recommendations to ensure that research software is openly accessible and reusable”, PLoS Biology 21(7), 2023. (Selected Publications)

Evidence and method

A profile on her office’s site.

Limits

The page gives no amount or dates for the POSE grant.