 Colonel Joseph H. Scherrer |
Colonel Joseph H. Scherrer is Commander, 689th Combat Communications Wing, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. He leads 1,500 duty Airmen in an expeditionary cyber operations mission that deploys combat commmunications and air traffic control and landing systems capabilities in permissive and non-permissive contingency environments. He advises the 24th Air Force commander on combat communications planning; capability development; and tactics, techniques, and procedures. He is the active duty field interface for 22 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units and their 2,200 Airmen. |
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James "Jim" Shelton |
Jim Shelton is currently serving as the Department of Defense (DoD) Computer Network Defense (CND) Architect for the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this capacity, he oversees and guides the development of the operational and technical architectures to support Commander, U.S. Strategic Command and other DoD Components regarding Computer Network Defense. His appointment by the DoD CIO as the CND Architect is directed by the DoD Instruction 8530 for Computer Network Defense. He has led cyber programs while employed with the National Security Agency (NSA) as the Trusted Computing Branch in the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) and currently serves as the IAD Security Education Academic Liaison (SEAL) for The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of North Texas. |
 US Congressman Michael T. McCaul |
Congressman Michael T. McCaul is currently serving his fourth term representing Texas' 10th District in the United States Congress. The 10th Congressional District of Texas stretches from Austin to the Houston suburbs, and includes Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Harris, Lee, Travis, Washington and Waller Counties. |
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Adnan Amjad |
Adnan Amjad leads Deloitte’s US Security and Privacy Practice for the Energy Industry. Deloitte’s Security and Privacy Practice includes cyber security threat management, incident management and critical infrastructure protection. Read more... |
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Brad Garbade |
Brad Garbade is a Security Sales Specialist for Dell SecureWorks focused on selling managed security services and security risk consulting services to government and education customers. He has spoken at numerous security conferences including CEIC, Techno Security and Forensic, and DOD Cyber Command conference regarding the increasing demands on forensic investigation due to electronic data growth. He has held numerous sales, business development, and sales engineering roles at Dell. Before joining Dell, Brad worked as a technical recruiter for TEKsystems in Dallas, Texas. Brad has a BBA in Marketing from Texas State University and resides in Austin, TX. |
 Gregory Ladd |
Gregory Ladd is a Raytheon Engineering Fellow and Chief Engineer for DoD Cyber programs within the Integrated Security Solutions group in Garland, TX. His focus is to bring new technologies and capabilities to counter emerging threats as part of various systems supporting Computer Network Operations (CNO) across the DoD. Mr. Ladd's interests span a wide variety of technologies involving system vulnerability assessments, advanced cyber analytics, and cloud security. His background includes development of real-time signal and image processing for a wide variety of DoD and Intelligence Community programs. He received his BSEE from Virginia Tech in 1985 and his MSEE from USC as a Hughes Fellow in 1988. |
 Brian Wrozek |
Brian Wrozek is IT Security & Privacy Director for Texas Instruments. Since 2001, he has been responsible for all areas of electronic data and system security worldwide. In 2011 he was given the added responsibility of chairing TI's new global privacy committee. He continues to facilitate the company's confidential information protection business council and represent IT services on the corporate acquisitions and divestitures team. |
 Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham |
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center (CySREC) at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is an elected Fellow of IEEE, the AAAS, the British Computer Society, the SPDS (Society for Design and Process Science) and the Society of Information Reuse and Integration (subcommittee of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society). The recipient of numerous awards, she has over 30 years experience in industry, MITRE, NSF and Academia. Her work has resulted in 100+ journal articles, 200+ conference papers, three US patents and 12 books. Under her leadership, CySREC has generated $20 million in research and education funding from AFOSR, NSF, IARPA, NGA, NASA, ONR, NIH, DARPA, Raytheon, Tektronix and others. |
 Dr. Kamil Sarac |
Dr. Kamil Sarac is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is also serving as the director of the information assurance education program at the university. His research interests include computer networks and protocols, network security, network and service monitoring and Internet measurements, overlay networks and their use in network security. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2002. |
 Dr. Kevin Hamlen |
Dr. Kevin Hamlen is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research applies techniques from programming language analysis and compiler design to problems in software security, malware defense, and peer-to-peer network security. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. His current research is funded by a 2008 Young Investigator (CAREER) award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Sponsored Research and a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
 Dr. Zhiqiang Lin |
Dr. Zhiqiang Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2011. His current research focuses on system and software security with an emphasis on developing new binary code analysis and virtualization techniques to find vulnerability in software, analyze malicious software, and protect OS kernels from attacks. |
 Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu |
Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on creating technologies that can efficiently extract useful information from any data without sacrificing privacy or security. Recently his work entails security and privacy issues raised by data mining, privacy issues in social networks, security issues in databases, privacy issues in health care, applied cryptography, risk and incentive issues in assured information sharing, use of data mining for fraud detection, botnet detection and homeland security. His research has been supported by grants from NSF, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ONR, NSA, and NIH. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University. He is also a recipient of NSF Career award. |
 Dr. Yiorgos (Georgios) Makris |
Dr. Yiorgos (Georgios) Makris is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he leads the Trusted and RELiable Architectures (TRELA) research group. Prior to joining UT Dallas in 2011, he spent over 10 years as a faculty of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. Even earlier, he received the Diploma of Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. |
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