Douglas Maughan
Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security
Science & Technology Cyber Security Research & Development Program
Scheduled Place and Time: Monday Morning
Talk Title: National Cyber Security Research Assessment and Roadmap
Program Manager, US Department of Homeland Security
Science & Technology Cyber Security Research & Development Program
Scheduled Place and Time: Monday Morning
Talk Title: National Cyber Security Research Assessment and Roadmap
Dr. Douglas Maughan is a Program Manager in Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Doug is directing the Cyber Security Research and Development activities at HSARPA. Prior to his appointment at DHS, Doug was a Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office (ATO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia. His research interests and related programs were in the areas of networking and information assurance. Prior to his appointment at DARPA, Doug worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a senior computer scientist and led several research teams performing network security research. Doug received bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from Utah State University, a master’s degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Fellow, Infrastructure & Geophysical Division, Science & Technology Directorate , US Department of Homeland Security
Professor of Computers and Information Systems, Rutgers University
Scheduled Place and Time: Monday Afternoon
Talk Title: Cyber-physical Systems Security
Abstract
Dr. Adam is the Founding Director of the Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC); the Director of the recently established information Technology for Emergency mAnageMent (i-TEAM) Research Laboratory at Rutgers; Cofounder and past Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute; and past Chair of the MSIS Department a RBS. Dr. Adam has published over 100 technical papers covering such topics as information management, information security and privacy, data mining, Web services and modeling & simulation. His papers appeared in referred journals and conference proceedings including, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He has co-authored/co-edited ten books. Dr. Adam is the co-founder and the Executive-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. He is also the co-founder and past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Dr. Adam holds a European issued Patent and has two pending patent applications submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; all related to Web services. Dr. Adam’s research work has been supported by over $15 million from various federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Security Agency (NSA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the National Library of Medicine, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, and NASA. Dr. Adam has been invited as a keynote speaker and a lecturer at several national and international institutions/forums/workshops.
Co-Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS),
Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Scheduled Place and Time: Wednesday Afternoon
Talk Title: Spam and Denial of Information Attacks and Defenses
Abstract
Calton Pu was born in Taiwan and grew up in Brazil. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 1986 and served on the faculty of Columbia University and Oregon Graduate Institute. Currently, he is holding the position of Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently working on three areas. First, he is using automated code generation techniques to automate and ensure the correct deployment of large scale N-tier applications in the Elba project. Second, he is investigating software and statistical techniques to defend against Denial of Information attacks in areas such as email and web spam. Third, he is working on the application of specialization and other techniques to ensure the reliability, trust, and security of system and application software. He has been the principal investigator of the Infosphere, Synthetix, and Immunix projects, with technical contributions such as Epsilon Serializability, Reflective Transaction Framework, and Continual Queries over the Internet. His collaborations include applications of these techniques in scientific research on macromolecular structure data, weather data, and environmental data, as well as in industrial settings. He has published more than 60 journal papers and book chapters, 170 refereed workshop and conference papers, and served on more than 100 program committees for more than 50 international conferences and workshops. He served as PC co-chair for SRDS, ICDE, CoopIs, DOA, and general chair for CIKM, ICDE, CEAS, and SCC. "
Director for Cyber Security Research Center and Professor of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Scheduled Place and Time: Wednesday Morning
Talk Title: Assured Information Sharing between Trustworthy, Semi-trustworthy and Untrustworthy Coalition Partners
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. She is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management.” Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington VA, from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme. She worked at MITRE in Bedford, MA between January 1989 and September 2001 first in the Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information Management Dr. Thuraisingham’s work in information security and information management has resulted in over 80 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and workshops, and three US patents. She is the author of eight books in data management, data mining and data security. Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.
Program Director, Network Technology and Systems (NeTS) Cluster, National Science Foundation
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
Scheduled Place and Time: Monday Morning
Talk Title: Pervasively Secured Infrastructures: A Multi-Layer Mathematical Framework
Abstract
Biography
Sajal K. Das is currently a Program Director at NSF in the Computer and Network Systems division. He is also a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Das is a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur; Honorary Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China; and Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Infocom Research, Singapore. He is frequently invited as keynote speakers at various conferences and symposia.
Dr. Das' current research interests include wireless and sensor networks, security, smart environments, mobile and pervasive computing, applied graph theory and game theory. He has published over 400 articles in journals and international conferences, and over 40 invited book chapters. He holds 6 US patents, and coauthored books on "Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications" (Wiley, 2005), and "Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking" (Wiley, 2009). Dr. Das is a recipient of 7 Best Paper Awards such as EWSN'08, IEEE PerCom'06, and ACM MobiCom'99. He is also a recipient of IEEE Computer Society 2009 Technical Achievement Award, Lockheed Martin Award for Teaching Excellence (2009), IEEE Engineer of the Year Award (2007), UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award (2006), University Award for Distinguished Record of Research (2005), and College of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2003).
Dr. Das serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking. He is the (co)founder of IEEE WoWMoM and IEEE PerCom conferences. He has served as General Chair, Program Chair and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences.
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Scheduled Place and Time: Tuesday Afternoon
Talk Title: Polymorphic Shellcode: Content AD and whitelist strategies are important new directions for future research
Salvatore J. Stolfo received his Ph.D. from NYU Courant Institute in 1979 and has been on the faculty of Columbia ever since. He has published extensively in the areas of parallel computing, AI knowledge-based systems, data mining and most recently computer security and intrusion detection systems (see www.cs.columbia.edu/ids). His research has been supported by DARPA, NSF, ONR, NSA, CIA, IARPA, DHS and numerous companies and state agencies over the years while at Columbia. Among his earliest work, Stolfo developed a large-scale expert data analysis system for the nation’s phone system and he built the 1023-processor DADO parallel computer that was the first parallel machine providing large-scale commercial speech recognition services. He has chaired, co-chaired and served on the program committees of numerous workshops and conferences in the areas of parallel processing, data mining, computer security, intrusion detection and digital government. He served as the Chairman of Computer Science and the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology and the Digital Government Research Center at Columbia University. He was also an expert witness in the DOJ versus Microsoft “browser wars” case. He was a member of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, and the Visa 3D Secure Authenticated Internet Payments Vendor Program. He was a consultant to the CTO of Citicorp for several years, and helped organize the Financial Services Technology Consortium, the consortia of the nation’s largest banks dealing with the technical infrastructure of the financial services industry. He has been awarded numerous patents (one joint with Citicorp) in the areas of parallel computing and database inference and computer security. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE S&P and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Professor Stolfo has also served as a consultant to DARPA and other federal agencies. Presently he is a member of the National Academy’s Naval Study Board Committee on IA for Naval Centric Forces. His most recent research has been devoted to distributed data mining systems with applications to fraud and intrusion detection in network information systems. His IDS lab, established in 1996 and sponsored by DARPA, pioneered the use of data analysis and machine learning techniques for the adaptive generation of novel sensors and anomaly detectors for a variety of tasks in computer security. Professor Stolfo has graduated over 25 PhD students and many dozens of Master’s students. The Columbia IDS lab has produced over a dozen patent applications filed by Columbia University for security and privacy technologies some of which have been licensed to commercial enterprises. Professor Stolfo also was founder or co-founder of and advisor to several startups. His most recent research is devoted to payload anomaly detection for zero-day exploits, secure private querying and automatic bait generation to mitigate the insider threat.
Co-Director, Lero ?|The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick
Former Director Software Engineering Laboratory, NASA GSFC
Scheduled Place and Time: Monday Evening Banquet
Talk Title: We Can't Get There From Here! The paradox of developing new classes of complex systems
Abstract
Michael G. Hinchey is an Irish computer scientist and Co-Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland. He studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate, Oxford University for his MSc and Cambridge University for his PhD. Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005. He has held numerous visiting professorships and was at Loyola College in Maryland, USA, before his current post. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IMA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Selected publications: Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. Dean, C.N. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, Teaching and Learning Formal Methods, Academic Press, London, 1996. Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 1-85233-640-4.
CTO, Director of Technology and Strategy, Mission Engineering Business Unit
Northrop Grumman Information Services
Scheduled Place and Time: Tuesday Morning
Talk Title: Security and Complexity ..... Are we on the Wrong Road?
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George Hull is the CTO & Technical Director of the Information Superiority Operating Unit within the Intelligence Group (TASC) of Northrop Grumman. George is a senior engineering leader with substantial expertise in systems engineering, enterprise and systems architecture, information assurance, information sharing, communications and IP network design and military operations. Since joining Northrop Grumman in May 2005, George has supported several customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community including his most recent assignment as a Line of Business Manager in support of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Chief Information Officer. George also serves as a current member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board where he has served on several national-level study panels in recent years including: Networking to Enable Coalition Operations, Space System Survivability; Implications of Cyberwarfare for the U.S. Air Force and Operating and Defending in Contested Cyber Domains. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in May 2005, George completed a 30 year career in the U.S. Army. In his last assignment at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), he served as the Chief Engineer for Strategic Communications with responsibilities for enterprise communications architecture for the White House. Earlier at DISA, George served as a Division Chief for Information Assurance and the Chief Engineer for Multi-National Information Sharing. George developed the proposed Multinational Information Sharing Program and led many of the Department of Defense’s efforts to improve information sharing between secure networks within the U.S. Government and between the U.S. and our multi-national partners. While at DISA, George was also part of the senior leadership team that developed DISA’s standard systems engineering process.George’s Army career began in 1974, when he enlisted in the Infantry and joined the 101st Airborne Division. After serving as an Infantry Squad Leader, George obtained a Regular Army Commission in 1983 and served in a variety of company grade assignments including time with the 3d Armored Division in Germany during the Cold War. In other Army assignments, George taught Systems Engineering as a member of the Faculty of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was later selected to attend the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies. As a Field Grade Officer, George returned to Germany in 1997, serving with the 1st Infantry Division as an Army planner and Infantry Battalion Executive Officer before joining the personal staff of General Montgomery Meigs, Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe, as a Special Assistant. George’s education includes a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Military Arts and Science in Strategy from the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Physiology from Louisiana State University.
Robert J. Stratton III
Director, Government Research
Symantec Research Labs
Scheduled Place and Time: Tuesday Afternoon
Talk Title: Internet Security Threat Landscape: Scaling to Meet the Threat
Robert Stratton is Director, Government Research within Symantec Research Labs, leading all U.S. Government-sponsored research and development within Symantec. Symantec Government Research is charged with the responsibility of developing technology for future Symantec products and services emerging from federally-sponsored research into nationally critical problems. Symantec pursues much of this research in partnership with world-renowned universities in areas including security and availability, storage, and distributed/mobile computing. Mr. Stratton has worked for 25 years in the commercial development of networking, information security and software reliability technologies. Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Stratton was CTO and co-founder of StackSafe, developing a virtualization platform for testing multi-tier business applications. At In-Q-Tel, a private venture firm investing in early-stage technology R&D for the benefit of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Stratton vetted technologies and structured and negotiated investments in early-stage companies and university research. Mr. Stratton has participated in the establishment of a number of technology companies including WheelGroup, Security Design International, and UUNET Technologies, where he established the security organization at one of the earliest tier-1 Internet service providers.