George Cybenko [webpage] is the Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth. Professor Cybenko has made key research contributions in signal processing, neural computing, parallel processing and computational behavioral analysis. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering, IEEE Security & Privacy and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. He has served on the Defense Science Board and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board in the past and is an advisor to the Army Cyber Institute at West Point. Professor Cybenko is a Fellow of the IEEE and SIAM. He received his BS (University of Toronto) and PhD (Princeton) degrees in mathematics. Cybenko was a co-founder of Flowtraq Inc, which was acquired by Riverbed Technology in 2017.
Ludmilla Huntsman [email] is an independent consultant specializing in cognitive security, cybersecurity, business advisory, and linguistics operations management services, with regional expertise and foreign policy experience in eastern Europe and Eurasia. She was a finalist for the 2023 Fulbright US Scholar Program in Ukraine until the recent cancellation of the program due to the security situation there; her research focuses on counter-disinformation strategies that involve machine learning technology deployments. Previously, she led Equilibrium Networks and designed a multi-faceted cybersecurity risk management program to support the Department of State’s implementation of the Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act. While she was chief of operations, Equilibrium performed sponsored research for DARPA on network security. During 2013-4, she took leave from Equilibrium to serve as the 152nd Franklin Fellow at the US Department of State. At DoS, she served as an advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and was detailed to support the Secretary's special initiative to combat Russian disinformation. In this capacity, Ms. Huntsman helped launch the Ukraine Communications Task Force, a first-ever prototype for rapid-response communications and the first interagency group in the US government to focus on understanding Russian computational propaganda techniques, including manipulation of social media and digital news through the use of AI. She authored the Department’s policy guide for public-private partnerships while advising for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at DoS. She has held positions at the International Finance Corporation and at Voice of America, as well as in asset management and at a NGO focusing on human rights. She obtained a MBA from Waynesburg University under a full scholarship award from the US Entrepreneurship Support Fund, and a MS in linguistics from Cherkasy National University (Ukraine).
Steve Huntsman [Google Scholar] is a principal scientist at Systems and Technology Research. His work focuses on the application of mathematics to cybersecurity and the development of algorithms, some of which have recently been published at ICML and AISTATS. Before STR, he was at BAE Systems FAST Labs, where he was a section lead and PI in the cyber technology division. Previously, he stood up a data science capability for a government organization after conducting independent research in network security and statistical physics. He began his career at the Institute for Defense Analyses' Science and Technology Division, and was on the research faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School Department of Physics before leaving to work as co-PI and technical lead on a DARPA network security program.
Paul Vines [webpage] is a principal research engineer at Two Six Technologies. His research focuses on cybersecurity, especially network security. Previously, he was at BAE Systems FAST Labs, where he was co-PI on the DARPA SafeDocs program. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington, where he was a member of the Security and Privacy Research Lab: his dissertation focused on digital surveillance methods and countermeasures, and was featured in Wired.
Katherine Dearstyne, University of Notre Dame
Trenton W. Ford, University of Notre Dame
Yi Ren Fung, University of Illinois
Ruthanna Gordon, University of Maryland
Cody Krug, Two Six Technologies
Oleksandr Makarenko, National Technical University of Ukraine / Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Cem Sahin, Systems and Technology Research
Kai Shu, Illinois Institute of Technology
Michael Wang, Systems and Technology Research
Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame