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Dr. Greg Conti

Greg Conti
General Chair

US Military Academy at West Point

Dr. Conti is an Academy Professor and Director of West Point's Cyber Security Research Center. He is the author of Security Data Visualization (No Starch Press) and Googling Security (Addison-Wesley) as well as over 40 articles covering security visualization, online privacy, and cyber warfare. He is a frequent speaker at leading security conferences including Defcon, Black Hat, and RSA. He recently returned from a deployment as Officer in Charge of Cyber Command's Expeditionary Cyber Support Element in Iraq.

Ms. Tamara Yu

Tamara Yu
Program Chair

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Ms. Yu is an Associate Technical Staff member in the Cyber Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her research interests lie in user interface design and data visualization as applied to computer security, network operations testing, and data mining. She helped build the Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT), a network emulation platform. More recently, she developed systems for monitoring cyber threats, including EMBER, which displays geographic regions where malicious activity differs from what is expected based on local factors.

Dr. Anita D'Amico

Anita D'Amico
Publicity Chair

Secure Decisions

Dr. D'Amico is the Director of Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. She is a human factors psychologist and specialist in information security situational awareness. Her current work focuses on information visualization for network defense, cyber attack mission impact, and wireless risk analysis. She holds a U.S. Patent and has authored numerous papers on security visualization. Dr. D’Amico recently testified on cyber security R&D before the Congressional Subcommittee on Science and Technology.

Marc Abbott

Marc Abbott
Publications Chair

US Military Academy at West Point

Mr. Abbott is a special projects developer for the USMA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a US Army officer with experience in systems administration and penetration testing. His research interests include high-dimension data visualization, visual data mining, signals analysis and cryptography.

John Gerth

John Gerth
Emeritus Chair

Stanford University

John Gerth is manager of the Computer Graphics Lab and Information Security Officer for the EE and CS Departments at Stanford University. His research interests in visual analytics and high performance databases have led to practical network forensic tools. He currently has grants from DHS and IARPA for research in visualization for network security.

Program Committee Members

  • Richard Bejtlich, General Electric
  • David Barrera, Carleton University
  • Carter Bullard, QoSient, LLC
  • Bill Cheswick, AT&T Research
  • Michael Collins, Redjack
  • Ron Dilley, Warner Bros.
  • David Ebert, Purdue University
  • Alex Endert, Virginia Tech
  • Rob Erbacher, Utah State University
  • Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Carrie Gates, CA Labs
  • John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Warren Harrop, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Florian Mansmann, University of Konstanz
  • Raffael Marty, Loggly
  • Jan Monsch, Google
  • Stephen North, AT&T
  • Danny Quist, Offensive Computing
  • Mark Shaneck, Liberty University
  • Dennis Schweitzer, United States Air Force Academy
  • Teryl Taylor, University of North Carolina
  • Olivier Thonnard, Symantec Research Labs
  • Joanne Treurniet, Defense Research and Development, Canada
  • Seth Webster, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Kirsten Whitley, Department of Defense
  • Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory