THAW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Technical Director
- Professor
Avi Rubin (JHU): Professor of Computer Science, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute, and PI of one of the first NSF CyberTrust centers (on e-voting).
Carl Gunter is a professor in the Computer Science Department and a professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as the director of Illinois Security Lab, the Health Information Technology Center (HITC), and the Strategic Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS). He has made research contributions in the semantics of programming languages, formal analysis of networks and security, and privacy. His contributions to the semantics of programming languages include the interpretation of subtypes using implicit coercions, type inference for continuations and prompts, the use of Grothendieck fibrations as a model of parametric polymorphism, the mixed powerdomain, and the use of Petri nets as a model of linear logic. His 1992 textbook and his chapter in the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science are standard references on the semantics of programming languages. He has also served extensively as research consultant and expert witness on programming languages and software. Professor Gunter's contributions to the formal analysis of networks and security include the Packet Language for Active Networks (PLAN), the WRSPM reference model for requirements and specifications, the first formal analyses of Internet and ad hoc routing protocols, the Verisim system for analyzing network simulations, and exploiting bandwidth contention as a DoS countermeasure. His work on privacy includes the first research on certificate retrieval for trust management and the formal analysis of regulatory privacy rules.
Carl Landwehr had a 23-year career leading cybersecurity research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He spent the past twelve years funding, managing, and guiding cybersecurity research programs for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and its predecessor organizations, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has served on two National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine study committees on electronic health records and networking technology for health applications. Dr. Landwehr has also served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, as a member of several studies for the National Academy of Sciences, and of DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. He has received numerous awards for research and service to the professional community. Read more.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the University of Illinois
Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Her research interests are directed toward distributed multimedia systems and networking, quality of service (QoS) and resource management in Internet and mobile systems, real-time multimedia processing over wired and wireless communication networks, real-time security in wireless networks for trustworthy power grid, and 3D tele-immersive systems. She served as the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, associate editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2006, general chair of ACM NOSSDAV 2007, general chair of IEEE PerCom 2009,. In 2007, she was elected to serve as the chair of the ACM SIG Multimedia. She has received numerous awards for research and service she is IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow. Read more.
Job Titles:
- Medical Director of the Child Health Informatics Center for the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Professor for Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University
Dr. Lehmann is Professor for Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He conceived and launched the journal Applied Medical Informatics, devoted to original research and commentary on the use of computer automation in the day-to-day practice of medicine and he served as the Editor-in-Chief since its inception. In 2009, he co-edited Pediatric Informatics, the first textbook on this subject.
Dr. Lehmann has served on the board of the American Medical Informatics Association since 2008 and currently serves as the organizations secretary. In 2010, he was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Medical Informatics and in 2012 he became a Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association in 2012 in charge of the IMIA Yearbook.
In 2010, Dr. Lehmann was appointed Medical Director of the Child Health Informatics Center for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Lehmann serves on the Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, Subcommittee for Clinical Informatics.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Security Officer and Director of IT Compliance for the Johns Hopkins University
- Chief Information Security Officer and Director of IT Compliance for the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine
Darren Lacey is Chief Information Security Officer and Director of IT Compliance for the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine. He was the first Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. He is an Adjunct Instructor in the Whiting School of Engineering. He has worked in the technology sector as a developer, attorney, consultant, and executive for twenty years. Currently, he chairs the subcommittee on Cyber Security for the Department of Homeland Security's National Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council. He received his Bachelor's degree from Baylor University and holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School.
Darren Lacey (JHU): Chief Information Security Officer and Director of IT Compliance for the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science
- Provost
David Kotz is the Provost, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and the Director of Emerging Technologies and Data Analytics in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, all at Dartmouth College. He previously served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Sciences and as the Executive Director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies. His research interests include security and privacy in smart homes, pervasive computing for healthcare, and wireless networks. He has published over 240 refereed papers, obtained $89m in grant funding, and mentored nearly 100 research students. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a 2008 Fulbright Fellow to India, a 2019 Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich, and an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his AB in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Technical Director of the Information Security Institute
Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research scientist at AT&T Labs. Rubin has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on multiple occasions, and he is author of several books including Brave New Ballot (Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Associate Editor of Communications of the ACM (CACM), and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security and Cryptography Book Series. Dr. Rubin spent the 2010-2011 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at Tel Aviv University. In January, 2004 Baltimore Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, ('89), M.S.E ('91), and Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Kevin Kornegay is the IoT Security Professor, the Director of the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy and the (CAP) Center, and the Center for Reverse Engineering and Assured Microelectronics (CREAM) Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. His research interests include cybersecurity, hardware assurance, reverse engineering, secure embedded system design, trusted platform module design, side-channel analysis, fault injection, radio-frequency, and millimeter-wave integrated circuit and system design. Dr. Kornegay currently serves on the technical program committees of the IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), and the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Hardware and System Security. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, National Semiconductor Faculty Development Award, and the General Motors Faculty Fellowship Award.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Center for Technology
- Director of the NIH
Dr. Lisa A. Marsch is the Director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College and a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth College. The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health is a P30 "Center of Excellence" supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), composed of an interdisciplinary research and development group focused on the systematic application of cutting-edge technologies to the delivery of behavior change interventions targeting behavioral health.
With funding from NIH, Dr. Marsch has led a line of research focused on the development and evaluation of state of the art, technology-based (mobile-, and Internet-delivered) interventions targeting substance abuse, mental health, and disease management. These technology-based therapeutic tools reflect an integration of science-based behavioral interventions with evidence-based informational technologies. This work has been conducted in a variety of settings, including physician offices, substance abuse treatment programs, criminal justice settings, educational settings and via the Internet. This research has provided novel empirical information regarding the role that technology may play in improving the prevention and treatment of behavioral health issues in a manner that is cost-effective, ensures fidelity and enables the rapid diffusion and widespread adoption of science-based interventions.
Dr. Marsch has served/serves as Principal Investigator (PI) on 21 research grants, largely funded by NIH, as Co-Investigator on 20 NIH-funded grants, and as a Consultant on numerous other grants. She publishes and presents at both national and international scientific meetings focused on this area of research and mentors an array of junior investigators within the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health in this area of research. She is also Chairing the development of a Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) on technology-based therapeutic tools as applied to behavioral health issues, to be published by SAMHSA. Additionally, she participates in numerous media activities in the U.S. and internationally about this research (e.g., Fox News, Associated Press, ABC Australia news). Dr. Marsch also serves as a scientific peer reviewer to the NIDA, NIAAA and NIMH and as a consultant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization (WHO).
Job Titles:
- Director of the Laboratory for Advanced RF / Microwave Measurement and Electronic Design
Dr. Michel Kornegay currently serves as the interim Chairperson and the director of the laboratory for Advanced RF/Microwave Measurement and Electronic Design (ARMMED) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU). Her research interests include wireless signal characterization and device authentication of IoT devices, high frequency device characterization and modeling for III-V semiconductors, RF/ MMIC circuit design, adaptable electronic components for software defined radio applications and most recently power amplifier development for THz mobile communication applications. She received her B.S from Morgan State in 1995 and her M.S.E.E. from Penn State in 1997, both in Electrical Engineering. She became the first female recipient at MSU to obtain her doctorate degree in Engineering in 2003. Previously, she served as a post- doctoral researcher of the Microwave Systems Section of the RF Engineering Group at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Space Department. She has a passion for education where she has developed curriculum for the RF Microwave Engineering concentration offered at MSU, one out of a few HBCUs to have a dedicated program in this area. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University Engineering Professionals Program.
M. Eric Johnson is dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Bruce Henderson Professor of Strategy. Johnson's teaching and research focuses on the impact of information technology on the extended enterprise. Through grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Johnson studies how information technology improves process execution, but also how security failures create friction throughout the extended enterprise. His recent book, The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft (Springer 2012) examines the security failures and economic incentives that drive identity theft. He is currently focused on the role of information technology to improve healthcare quality and reduce cost. He has authored patents on interface design and has testified before the U.S. Congress on information security. He holds a B.S. in Engineering, B.S. in Economics, an M.S. in Engineering and Operations Research from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Stanford University.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in EECS at the University of Michigan
Jenna Wiens is an Assistant Professor in EECS at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2014, she joined the CSE division after completing her PhD at MIT.
Professor Wiens primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and medicine. She especially enjoys solving the technical challenges that arise when considering the practical application of machine learning in clinical settings. Currently, she is focused on developing accurate patient risk stratification approaches that leverage data across time and space, with the ultimate goal of reducing the rate of healthcare-associated infections among patients admitted to hospitals in the US.
In addition to this work, Professor Wiens had the privilege of working with a unique dataset from the NBA. Recently, Professor Wiens had a lot of fun applying many of the same techniques we use in the medical work to the world of sports analytics. In general, she enjoys tackling the challenges that develop when working with large complex datasets.
Jenna Wiens (UM): Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Professor Wiens research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and medicine.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jonathan Weiner is a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is also a professor of health informatics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the director of the newly formed Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health Information Technology.
Dr. Weiner is an internationally regarded researcher, consultant and lecturer. He has consulted with government and private agencies around the globe.
Professor Weiner's current work focuses on the application of electronic health records (EHRs) and Health IT for population based applications within communities and integrated delivery systems.
He is the co-developer of the Johns Hopkins ACG case-mix / predictive modeling tool now widely used in more than 18 nations to measures health status of populations and to identify high risk persons in need of care management interventions.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Kevin Fu is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His security research focuses on medical devices and health care. Prior to joining Michigan, Prof. Fu served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prof. Fu serves as a member of the NIST Information Security and Privacy AdvisoryBoard and as an ORISE Fellow at the Food & Drug Administration. He has testified on cybersecurity in U.S. Congress House subcommittee on Health, and was previously a visiting researcher at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School, Microsoft Research, and MIT CSAIL. Prof. Fu received a Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, best paper awards from top computing conferences, and the distinction of MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year. Prof. Fu earned his Ph.D. in EECS at MIT for research on secure storage and web authentication.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science, With Expertise in Security, Cloud Computing, and Multimedia
Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC): Professor of Computer Science, with expertise in security, cloud computing, and multimedia.
Job Titles:
- Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, With Expertise in Storage, Security, and Distributed Systems
As an experimental computer scientist, Peter Honeyman studies middleware for storage, security, and distributed systems. He has been instrumental in software projects such as Honey DanBer UUCP, PathAlias, Disconnected AFS, WebCard (the first TCP/IP smart card), and the Linux-based reference implementation of NFSv4 and pNFS. Prof. Honeyman served on the USENIX Association Board of Directors from 1996 to 2004. In 2007, he was awarded the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award "for his work as a mentor to so many leaders in our field." Prof. Honeyman is the author of over 60 journal and conference papers and has chaired nine doctoral committees. He holds the B.G.S. (with distinction) from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Peter Honeyman (UM): Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with expertise in storage, security, and distributed systems.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science, With Expertise in Security, Cloud Computing, and Ubiquitous Computing
Roy Campbell (UIUC): Professor of Computer Science, with expertise in security, cloud computing, and ubiquitous computing.
Job Titles:
- Research Investigator at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stephen Checkoway has left THaW and JHU for a faculty position at UI Chicago. He was an assistant research professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) where he develops and teaches graduate-level computer security courses. Checkoway's research has focused on traditional systems security and embedded systems security including publishing the first comprehensive security analysis of modern automobiles. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, San Diego under Professor Hovav Shacham.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer, Dartmouth College
Sara Rampazzi (UM): Research Investigator at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Michel Reece (JHU): Associate Professor, interim Chairperson and the director of the laboratory for Advanced RF/Microwave Measurement and Electronic Design (ARMMED) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.