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Panel Member Biographical Information

KWANG-CHENG CHEN, Chair, has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, and on the cybersecurity faculty with Cyber Florida after his career with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, HP Labs, COMSAT Corporation, and National Taiwan University and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Chen’s patented technology has been adopted in Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (Wi-Fi), 4G and LTE-A, and 5G mobile communications. His start-up company delivered the world’s first on-chip Advanced Encryption Standard in wireless integrated circuits, and the first low-power broadband wireless solution for smartphones. Dr. Chen is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow and a recipient of the 2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2011 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, and many paper awards for his IEEE journal and conference papers. Dr. Chen served the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2018.

GAIL-JOON AHN is a professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and the founding director of the Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations at Arizona State University. Dr. Ahn’s principal research and teaching interests are in the areas of information and systems security. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Security Agency, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Naval Research, Cisco, GoDaddy, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Samsung, PayPal, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Ahn is currently the information director of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control and has served as the associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, on the editorial board of Computers and Security, and as the associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. He is a recipient of DOE’s Early Career Principal Investigator Award and has published more than 250 articles in reputed journals and conferences, accumulating more than 17,000 citations. He is also the recipient of the Educator of the Year Award given by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association in 2005. Dr. Ahn is a fellow of IEEE and holds 10 U.S. patents in the field of computer science and engineering.

JANDRIA S. ALEXANDER is a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she leads technology and mission solutions for government clients. Ms. Alexander leads the delivery of cybersecurity, software, data science, cyber-physical systems, and research and development (R&D). She is a subject-matter expert on cybersecurity, resilient platforms, operational technology, and multidomain mission systems, with more than 20 years in the field. A nationally recognized cybersecurity expert, Ms. Alexander has participated in National Academies’ studies related to cybersecurity research and new aviation technologies. In 2014, she was appointed by former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve on the bipartisan Virginia Cyber Security Commission to expand the state’s economic footprint in cyber technology and protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats. She led the effort’s unmanned systems cybersecurity industry, government, and academia consortium. Over the length of her career, Ms. Alexander has provided cybersecurity and digital transformation leadership, market strategy, and solution

development for DoD and the intelligence community as well as many civil and commercial organizations. Before joining Booz Allen in 2017, she was a cybersecurity leader in engineering and technology at a federally funded research and development corporation. She served as the chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Diversity and Inclusion Working Group from 2017–2021, a member of the Defense Conference Board, and an advisor on the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for AIAA. She has a BS in computer science from Brandeis University and an MS in technology management from American University.

STEVEN M. BELLOVIN is the Percy K. and Vidal L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, a member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Center of the university’s Data Science Institute, and an affiliate faculty member at Columbia Law School. Dr. Bellowvin does research on security and privacy and on related public policy issues. He received a BA from Columbia University and an MS and a PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bellovin has served as the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission and as the technology scholar at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. In the past, he has been a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Election Assistance Commission.

THOMAS A. BERSON is the founder of Anagram Laboratories, an information security consultancy. He is also the cybersecurity advisor to the chief executive officer and the Board of Directors at Salesforce. Prior to Anagram, Dr. Berson co-founded and was the vice president of research at Sytek, acquired by Hughes Network Systems. He earlier worked at IBM Research, Ford Aerospace, and Xerox PARC. He has experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of cryptosystems, including algorithms and key distribution protocols. While at Sytek, Dr. Berson developed end-to-end encryption, challenge and response authentication, and high-assurance cross-domain products. At Salesforce, he wrote the cloud security policy and mentors executives responsible for establishing, operating, and governing trust worldwide. Dr. Berson is a member of NAE and a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He was an editor of the Journal of Cryptology and served as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. Dr. Berson earned his BS in physics from the State University of New York and his PhD in computer science from the University of London. He was a visiting fellow in mathematics at Clair Hall, Cambridge. He has been a member of relevant past National Academies’ committees, including the Committee to Review DOD C4I Plans and Programs, the Committee on Offensive Information Warfare, and the Committee on Developing a Cybersecurity Primer: Leveraging Two Decades of National Academies Work. He is currently a member of the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience.

CHARLES BLAUNER is an internationally recognized expert independent advisor on cyber resiliency, information security risk management, and data privacy. He is the president of Cyber Aegis, a boutique cyber risk management consultancy. Mr. Blauner is also an operating partner and the chief information security officer (CISO) in residence at Team8 Ventures, an operating advisor at Crosspoint Capital, a venture advisor at the Cyber Mentor Fund, and an executive in residence at the Partnership Fund for New York City’s FinTech Innovation Lab. Previously, he had a distinguished career working on information and cyber security for more than 30 years, in financial services for 25 years, including being the CISO at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, and most recently the global head of information security at Citi. During this time, Mr. Blauner held numerous industry leadership roles, including the chair of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, founding director of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and chair of the OpenGroup’s Security Program. He has worked closely with banking regulators around the world (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board, Bank of England, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Hong Kong Monetary Authority) to help reduce

the risk posed by cyber threats to the financial sector at large. Mr. Blauner is a regular conference speaker and has had the honor of appearing in front of U.S. House and Senate committees. In 2015, he was recognized by his peers, winning the Wasserman Award, which recognizes outstanding career achievement and contribution to the information systems audit, control, security, risk management, and/or governance professions. Mr. Blauner has an MS in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RUSSEL E. CAFLISCH is currently the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU). Prior to this position, he was the director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2008–2017, and he held faculty positions at Stanford University and UCLA. Dr. Caflisch is an applied mathematician whose research is on analysis and numerical methods for physical sciences. He is known for analysis of the fluid dynamic limit in kinetic theory and of vortex sheets in incompressible flow, mathematical modeling of epitaxial growth, and development of Monte Carlo methods for kinetic theory and finance. Dr. Caflisch is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). He graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in mathematics in 1975 and received his PhD in mathematics in 1978 at the Courant Institute, NYU.

KELLY CAINE is a professor in the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. Dr. Caine is the founder and co-director of the Humans and Technology Lab (www.hatlab.org), where she leads research in human factors, cybersecurity, human-centered computing, privacy, usable security, and human–computer interaction. Her work in these areas has been continuously funded by agencies such as NSF for more than a decade. She is the co-author of Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research (2015) and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in venues ranging from ACM CHI to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Caine and her students have received awards for their collaborative research from NAE, the Institute of Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is key faculty in Clemson’s Cybersecurity Center, an associate in the Human Factors Institute, and a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Caine was a principal research scientist in the School of Computing at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and a UX researcher at Google. She holds degrees from the University of South Carolina (BA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (MS and PhD).

RICHARD CHOW is a university research director and scientist in the University Research and Collaboration office within Intel Labs. Dr. Chow guides several of Intel’s academic research centers in the areas of security, networking, autonomous systems, and machine learning. In the past, he has held positions as a research scientist at PARC, a research scientist at Samsung Electronics R&D, and a security architect at Yahoo and Motorola. Dr. Chow has more than 20 U.S. patents and patent applications and more than 30 peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, and book chapters. He was awarded runner-up for the 2010 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Dr. Chow has a PhD in mathematics from UCLA and a BA in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

PAUL ENGLAND is an independent consultant. Previously, he was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft Research working on computer security. Dr. England is best known for foundational work in trusted and confidential computing. This includes various hardware roots-of-trust, such as the Trusted Platform Module, and the secure-enclave technologies that are now implemented in most mainstream microprocessors and supported in most mainstream operating systems. Dr. England has advised governments and regulators on many aspects of cybersecurity and policy. He was elected to NAE in 2019 for these contributions. Dr. England has a PhD in condensed matter physics from Imperial College, London.

ANDRÉ FREITAS is an associate professor (senior lecturer) at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (UK), an AI Group leader at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute and a Research Group leader at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland). He leads the Neuro-Symbolic AI Group. His main research interests are on enabling the development of AI/Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to support complex and controlled expert-level inference, with a particular emphasis on supporting scientific discovery. He is an active contributor to the main conferences and journals in AI/NLP, including the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Neural Information Processing Systems, Association for Computational Linguistics, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Conference on Computational Linguistics, European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Extending Database Technology, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics (with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications).

ALFIO GLIOZZO is currently the principal researcher and technical program manager at IBM Research. Dr. Gliozzo has more than 20 years of research experience in generative AI, with a strong focus on natural language processing and knowledge graphs. He was a member of the Deep QA team that developed Watson, the IBM Question Answering system that defeated the Jeopardy! grand masters in 2011. Dr. Gliozzo leads significant research efforts aimed at providing natural language access to enterprise data lakes at IBM. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications and patents and has received several Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM for his contributions to the R&D of AI capabilities in IBM products. Additionally, he has taught cognitive computing at Columbia University for several years. Dr. Gliozzo is a member of ACM and regularly serves on the program committees of top AI conferences, such as AAAI and the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD in communication technology from the University of Trento in 2005.

GREGORY F. LAWLER is the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics and in Statistics at the University of Chicago. He previously held professorships at Duke University and Cornell University. Dr. Lawler’s expertise is probability and stochastic processes, with a particular interest in models that arise in statistical physics. He is the author of seven books (two co-authored) as well as numerous papers. Dr. Lawler is a member of NAS and AAA&S. His awards include the Wolf Prize in mathematics (2019) and the Polya Prize given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2006), and he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2018). He is a fellow of both the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and the American Mathematical Society. He received a BA from the University of Virginia in 1976 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1979.

ANNA LYSYANSKAYA is the James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. A theme of her academic research is on balancing privacy with accountability, and specifically allowing users to prove that they are authorized even while not revealing any additional information about themselves. Dr. Lysyanskaya is a recipient of numerous awards from NSF, as well as industry grants from IBM, Google, and Facebook. She has served on the board of directors of IACR since 2012 and served as the program co-chair of the annual Crypto conference in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. Dr. Lysyanskaya received an AB from Smith College in 1997, an SM from the Massachusetts of Technology (MIT) in 1999, and a PhD from MIT in 2002.

CHARIF MAHMOUDI is currently a senior security architect at Siemens Technology and an associate researcher at both the Telecommunications and Multimedia Laboratory at the University of Hassan II Casablanca and the Algorithmic Complexity and Logic Laboratory at Paris-Est Créteil University. Previously, he has held various positions in R&D, focusing on emerging networking technologies, mobile cloud computing, and software architecture. Dr. Mahmoudi is an expert in distributed systems,

cybersecurity, AI, and cloud computing, with a particular emphasis on securing cyber-physical systems and intelligent systems design. He has been recognized as a distinguished lecturer at both the University of North Texas and the Hassan II University of Casablanca and was a finalist for the Siemens Excellence Award. Additionally, he has served as an Associate of the Year at NIST. Dr. Mahmoudi obtained his PhD in formal verification of distributed systems from Paris-Est Créteil University, an MS in distributed systems from Paris 12 University, and a BS in computer science from École Supérieure d’Ingénierie en Sciences Appliquées. His doctoral research focused on the orchestration of mobile agents in communities. Notably, Dr. Mahmoudi has contributed to several research and industrial projects funded by organizations like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Siemens and has a robust record of publications in the field of distributed systems and cybersecurity. His professional service includes roles as a co-chair and technical program committee member for various IEEE conferences, and he has an extensive history of invited presentations and lectures at international conferences and universities.

LINDA R. PETZOLD is currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and the director of the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Petzold is a member of NAS and NAE, and a fellow of ACM, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SIAM, and the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was named the UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer for 2011, was awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize for Computational Science and Engineering in 2013, received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 2015, was awarded the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service in 2016, and was awarded the IEEE Sydney Fernbach Prize in 2018. Her current research focuses on modeling, simulation, and data analytics of multiscale systems in biology and medicine.

MANAS N. RACHH is currently a research scientist in the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Mathematics. Before coming to the Flatiron, he was a Gibbs Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics. Dr. Rachh’s research interests include partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in mathematical physics, integral equation methods, robust computation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of elliptic PDEs, and the development of fast algorithms for applications in electrostatics, acoustics, viscous flow, electromagnetics, biomedical imaging, and data visualization. He obtained his BTech and MTech in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2011 and his PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU in 2015. Dr. Rachh is an organizer of a week-long workshop at Flatiron Institute titled “Computational Tools for PDEs with Complicated Geometries and Interfaces.” The workshop is geared toward graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and practitioners, and includes introductory talks on the basic mathematical foundation of integral equation methods, illustrations of their use in applications, and expert-run hands-on tutorials using a set of efficient software tools.

JEYAVIJAYAN (JV) RAJENDRAN is an associate professor and an ASCEND Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He obtained his PhD from NYU in August 2015. Dr. Rajendran’s research interests include hardware security and computer security. His research has won the NSF CAREER Award in 2017, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2022, the IEEE CEDA Ernest Kuh Early Career Award in 2021, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 2019, the Intel Academic Leadership Award, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in 2017, and the Alexander Hessel Award for the Best PhD Dissertation in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NYU in 2016, and several best student paper awards. He organizes and has co-founded Hack@DAC, a student security competition co-located with the Design Automation Conference and Sushi.

DEBORAH SHANDS is currently a senior computer scientist at SRI International. Before joining SRI, Dr. Shands served as a program director for NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program. Prior to NSF, she worked as a senior security engineer for space systems at The Aerospace Corporation. She has expertise in systems security architecture and design, and scalable security administration of identity and access management. Dr. Shands’s current work focuses on cybersecurity and privacy for digital credentials and identities. She is a member of ACM and is a recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Ohio State University College of Engineering and an IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award for exemplary service. Dr. Shands received her BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in computer and information science from Ohio State University in 1994.

EUGENE H. SPAFFORD is currently a professor at Purdue University, as well as the executive director emeritus of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. He has courtesy appointments in electrical and computer engineering, political science, philosophy, and communication. He has been on the faculty at Purdue for 37 years. Dr. Spafford has worked on issues in privacy, public policy, law enforcement, software engineering, education, social networks, operating systems, and cybersecurity. He has been involved in the development of fundamental technologies in intrusion detection, incident response, firewalls, integrity management, and forensic investigation. He is a fellow of AAA&S and AAAS; a Life Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the (ISC)2; a Life Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association; and a member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame—the only person to ever hold all of these distinctions. In 2012, he was named one of Purdue’s inaugural Morrill Professors—the university’s highest award for the combination of scholarship, teaching, and service. In 2016, Dr. Spafford received the state of Indiana’s highest civilian honor by being named as a Sagamore of the Wabash. He received his BS from the State University of New York at Brockport and his MS and PhD from Georgia Tech. Dr. Spafford then spent 18 months as a postdoctoral researcher in software engineering at Georgia Tech before joining the faculty at Purdue. He previously served on the National Academies’ Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2018.

SHENGTAO WANG is currently the head of Quantum Algorithms and Applications at QuEra Computing Inc., which is a leader in commercializing quantum computers using neutral atoms. Dr. Wang is an expert in the development of near-term quantum algorithms and applications, in the areas of quantum optimization, quantum simulation, and quantum machine learning. He has more than 12 years of experience working in the field of quantum computing and quantum simulations. At QuEra, Dr. Wang leads a team of more than 10 senior scientists and engineers and has mentored more than 20 student interns as part of his team in the past 5 years. Prior to his position at QuEra, Dr. Wang was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics at Harvard University, where he made important contributions in developing near-term quantum optimization algorithms implementable on today’s neutral-atom quantum computers. Dr. Wang received his BSc in 2011, with a double major in physics and mathematics, at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and won the Top CN Yang Scholar Award. He received his PhD in physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2017 and won the Wirt and Mary Cornwell Prize. Dr. Wang currently receives funding from DARPA, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Wellcome Leap.

TOLGA YALCIN is currently a CPU Security Architect at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego. He has expertise in embedded and hardware security, applied cryptography, digital signal processing, and application-specific integrated circuit design. Dr. Yalcin received his PhD in microelectronics and microsystems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in 2007. Before joining Qualcomm in 2022, he worked for NXP, Northern Arizona University (as a research professor), and Google. He is a member of IEEE and has served as a program committee member and reviewer for major several conferences and journals in his area of expertise.

SHERALI ZEADALLY is a university research professor and the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Endowed Professor at the University of Kentucky. He authored and co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications, of which 371 papers have appeared in peer-reviewed international journals and magazines. This also includes 40 peer-reviewed book chapters. Dr. Zeadally has authored and co-edited 8 books. He has received 13 best paper awards with 11 of them from well-known peer-reviewed international journals. He was named a highly cited researcher in computer science in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 by Clarivate. He received more than 60 awards, honors, and prestigious fellowships nationally and internationally for his outstanding research, teaching, and service in his career. Dr. Zeadally has received several outstanding research awards from the University of Kentucky, nationally, and internationally. At the University of Kentucky, he won several university-wide awards, including the University Research Professor Award, the Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize, the Alumni Professorship Award, the Global Impact Award for Distinguished Faculty Achievements in International Research and Scholarship, the Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, and the Ken Freedman Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. At the national level, he won the prestigious IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award and the IEEE–USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor. At the international level, he received the prestigious Communications Software Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Communications Society Communications Software Technical Committee in 2015 and the IEEE Smart Computing Special Technical Community Life-Career Award in 2023. He has also received several research mentor and advising awards (all of them nominated by undergraduate and graduate students) from the University of Kentucky for his outstanding mentoring and advising efforts. He has received multiple outstanding teaching awards (two excellence in teaching awards, a President’s award for excellence in teaching, and a Great Teacher Award) at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Zeadally has made numerous service contributions as the editor-in-chief of an international peer-reviewed journal; an associate editor and editorial board member of more than 15 peer-reviewed academic journals; a chair, co-chair, and technical program committee member of several peer-reviewed conferences; and a grant reviewer for more than 40 grant funding agencies nationally and internationally. Dr. Zeadally earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England. He also received a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Buckingham, England, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California. His research interests include cybersecurity, privacy, Internet of Things, and computer networks (vehicular networks and sensor networks).

MARY ELLEN (“MEZ”) ZURKO is a technical staff member at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Ms. Zurko has worked in product development, early product prototyping, and research and has more than 20 patents. She defined the field of user-centered security in 1996 and has worked in cybersecurity for more than 35 years. Ms. Zurko was the security architect of one of IBM’s earliest clouds. She was a founding member of the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience and serves as a Distinguished Expert for the National Security Agency’s Best Scientific Cybersecurity Research Paper competition. Her research interests include unusable security for attackers, Zero Trust architectures for government systems, security development and code security, authorization policies, high-assurance virtual machine monitors, the web, and public key infrastructure. Ms. Zurko received an SB and an SM in computer science from MIT.