Panel: Community Engagement

D. Massey, R. Hutchins, Y. Tian, C. Ellis, K. Claffy

Panel: Community Engagement focusing on community engagement strategies and successes.

Dan Massey

Dr. Dan Massey is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure where he leads efforts on cybersecurity and networking. Prior to joining NSF, he also served as a Program Director at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Research and Engineering where he led the DoD Operate Through 5G Initiative aims to ensure DoD can securely operate through commercial 5G networks across the globe. As a Program Manager in the Cyber Security Division, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he developed and managed programs that focused on cyber security for automobiles and other systems that combine the cyber and physical worlds. He participates on several cybersecurity educational advisory boards. Dr. Massey is the author over 100 peer reviewed publications on networking and cyber security including co-editor of the DNS Security Standard (RFCs 4033, 4034, and 4035) and early work on Named Data Networking. He has served as the Principal Investigator on research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and industry. He earned his doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ron Hutchins

Ron began his career at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, building one of the first networking laboratories in the College of Computing and teaching data communications. In 1991 he became Director of Campus Networks at Georgia Tech, where he led the deployment of the institution’s first IP routers and modernized the campus network infrastructure. During that same period, Ron founded and led Southern Crossroads (SoX), a regional initiative that established an aggregation point in Atlanta connecting Southeastern universities to Internet2 and to each other. In 2001, having earned his PhD in computer networks, he became Chief Technology Officer for Georgia Tech. In 2015 he joined the University of Virginia as Vice President of Information Technology supporting research computing infrastructure for the campus and the state. Ron is now research faculty in UVA’s Computer Science department and a recipient of an NSF CICI award, with current work focused on building and sustaining community infrastructure for the research computing ecosystem.

Yuan Tian

Yuan Tian is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and the Institute for Technology, Law and Policy (ITLP) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on security and privacy, with an emphasis on trustworthy machine learning and machine learning for security. Her research has real-world impact: her countermeasures and design changes have been integrated into widely used platforms (such as Android, Chrome, Azure, and iOS), and her findings have informed security recommendations by standard organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Carolyn Ellis

Carolyn Ellis is Co-PI of Trusted CI, founder and lead of the Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) and a director at Arizona State University with the cybersecurity team. She works at the intersection of research security, compliance, and community coordination, building national-scale programs that strengthen institutional readiness and culture changes required to engage in regulated research.

Kimberly C. Claffy

Kimberly C. Claffy (“kc claffy”) leads the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) in its scientific research and infrastructure activities. CAIDA’s research activities focus on independent (third-party) assessments of the security, stability, and resilience of the Internet’s underlying infrastructure, including its addressing, routing, and naming systems. As the Internet infrastructure has matured, these research areas require interdisciplinary effort, including expertise in economics and policy as well as legal and ethical use of data. kc leads CAIDA’s infrastructure activities, including software development, and data collection, management, curation, and sharing to support Internet research around the world, with focus on the health and integrity of the global Internet ecosystem.

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