Keynote Speakers

Dr. Josiah Dykstra is a Technical Fellow and member of the Senior Executive Service in the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center at the National Security Agency (NSA). He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and previously served at NSA as a cyber operator and researcher. Dykstra is interested in cybersecurity science, especially where humans intersect with technology. In 2017, Dykstra received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from former President Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is the author of numerous research papers and two books.

Dr. O’Reilly leads the ALFA – Anyscale Learning for All, Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dr. O’Reilly and her team conduct research in Artificial Adversarial Intelligence and have specific experience in competitive coevolutionary algorithms, scalable generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep learning in general, cyber security related to coevolving network threats and defenses, threat hunting, exploitation of public security data sources, malware detection, and adversarial model attacks. Dr. O’Reilly led the RIVALs project in the DARPA XD3 program (2016-2018), the CSAIL CyberSecurity Initiative funded project on SDN-based reconnaissance and deception, Lincoln Lab-funded projects on network enclave contagion and cleansing plus software defined perimeter security, and the MITRE-funded STEALTH project on tax non-compliance and auditing. She led the AI/ML side of the CICADA project in the DARPA AIE COMBAT program and the BRON project in the DARPA CHASE program. She leads the NPS/Air Force AI Accelerator project on coevolutionary logistics modeling, and the IBM-MIT malware-code modeling project. She, along with team members, are the founders of the open-source Lipizzaner project which robustly scales GAN training ( https://alfa-group.github.io/lipizzaner-web/). She has co-founded the open-source BRON ( https://github.com/ALFA-group/BRON) project.

Dr. O'Reilly received the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Achievements in Evolutionary Computation in Europe. She is a Fellow of the International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, now ACM SIGEVO. In 2013 she inaugurated the Women in Evolutionary Computation group at GECCO. She is the area editor for Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery for Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer), editor for Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), and area editor for ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization.