Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundation’s CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering. In 2004 she became a CITRIS director emeritus and now she is a full time professor of EECS.

April 2008, Dr. Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world.

Dr. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science.

Dr. Bajcsy received her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, and since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penn’s Department of Computer and Information Science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became chair of the department. Prior to her work at the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has served as advisor to more than 50 Ph.D. recipients. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from Universty of Ljubljana in Slovenia. In 2001 she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award.

Contact Info:
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy
(510) 642-9423
bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu

Becky Bace is an internationally recognized expert in network security and intrusion detection. In 2007, Information Security Magazine named her one of the ten most influential people in the information security industry today; in 2005 she was named one of the five most influential women in information security and privacy. Becky has worked in security since the 1980s, leading the first major intrusion detection research program at the National Security Agency, where she received the Distinguished Leadership Award, serving as the Deputy Security Officer for the Computing Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and, since 1997, working as a strategic consultant. She is currently President of Infidel, Inc., a security consulting firm, and a venture consultant for Trident Capital, where she is responsible for overseeing Trident’s security-related investment portfolio. Ms. Bace has served as a technical advisor to many successful startups, including Tricipher, Hytrust, Vantos, Airtight, Security Focus, Sygate, Tripwire, Arxan, Qualys, SecureWorks, @Stake, and Intruvert Networks. Her publication credits include the books Intrusion Detection (Macmillan, 2000), A Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as An Expert Technical Witness, (Addison-Wesley, October, 2002) and the chapters on intrusion detection and vulnerability analysis for the Computer Security Handbook, 4th Edition (Wiley, April, 2002) and Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition (Wiley, February, 2009).

Contact info:
Rebecca Base, President and CEO
INFIDEL, Inc.
104 Kelsey Court
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 438-6378
infomom@infidel.net
URL: www.infidel.net

KC Claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. KC's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. kc received her PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in 1994.

Contact info:
KC Claffy, Ph.D.
kc@ucsd.edu
La Jolla, California 92093-0505
University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
La Jolla, CA 92093

Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU.

She is heavily involved with the The Privacy Place, the Institute for Advanced Analytics and various IT policy initiatives both on and off campus. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research has gained international recognition through best paper awards at international conferences and workshops, and through publication in outlets such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Security and Privacy and Communications of the ACM.

Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop appropriate security and privacy policies as well as systems that are in compliance with those policies.

She has also been a leader in developing the Information Technology curriculum under the Business Management degree at NCSU. She has initiated, designed, and taught several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Contact Info:
Julie Earp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Technology
North Carolina State University
Department of Business Management
1344 Nelson Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695-7229 U.S.A.

Email: Julie_Earp@ncsu.edu

Phone: (+1) 919.513.1707
Fax: (+1) 919.515.6943

Brianna Gamp is Sr. Manager of Security Architecture for eBay Marketplaces. In this role, she works with the business and technology organizations to design and implement security technologies and ensure that product changes are pursued in accordance with a risk-based approach to security. Brianna responsible for many programs including researching new technologies for secure authentication, implementing a Secure Development Lifecycle, and ensuring eBay's current and future platforms have a strong security foundation. During her six year tenure at eBay, Brianna has managed teams responsible for Security Policy, Compliance, Awareness, Audit, as well as Site Speed and Availability in China.

Contact Info:
Brianna Gamp
2211 North Firat Street
San Jose, CA 95131
Email: bgamp@ebay.com

Fran Maier is the Chief Executive Officer of TRUSTe, the leading trustmark and recognized authority on Internet trust and privacy. Fran brings 15 years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust online.

Since Fran joined TRUSTe in 2001, the company has grown to certify more than 3000 web sites, including Microsoft, eBay, Facebook, Apple, the NFL, and AT&T. Under her leadership, TRUSTe has expanded its services from Web site privacy certification to email and downloadable software, and strengthened its compliance-monitoring services and dispute-resolution platforms. In 2008, she led TRUSTe’s board and management through the transition from non-profit industry association to for-profit, raising significant capital from Accel Partners.

As a co-founder of Match.com, she established credibility, safety, and trust in online dating, making Match.com the leading online dating service. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart’s BlueLight.com subsidiary, Fran both established new start-up online brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet.

Fran speaks widely on the issues of privacy, security, and trust. She’s appeared before the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Commerce, and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection.

She holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University and lives in Alameda, CA with her husband and two sons.

Contact Info:
Fran Maier
President and CEO
TRUSTe
fran@truste.org

Brad Malin is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and is the Director of the Vanderbilt Health Information Privacy Laboratory. Among his sponsored research, he directs a data privacy research and consultation team for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) project, a consortium sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute. He has edited several volumes for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, a special issue for the journal Data and Knowledge Engineering, and is currently on the editorial board of the journal Transactions on Data Privacy. He received a bachelor’s in biology (2000), master’s in machine learning (2002), master’s in public policy & management (2003), and a doctorate in computer science (2006), all from Carnegie Mellon University.  Further details can be found at http://www.hiplab.org/people/malin.

Contact Info:
Bradley Malin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Health Information Privacy Lab
Dept of Biomedical Informatics
School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Email: b.malin@vanderbilt.edu
URL: www.hiplab.org/people/malin

Jelena Mirkovic received her BSc in Computer Science and Engineering
from University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. She received MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UCLA in 2001 and 2003. She then joined the University of Delaware as an assistant professor 2003-2007 and moved with her family in 2007 to California. She is currently a researcher at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

Jelena is an expert on distributed denial of service attacks. She proposed the first source-end DDoS defense in her PhD thesis, created the first taxonomy of DDoS attacks and defenses and co-wrote the first book on the topic (“Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms,” by Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich and Peter Reiher, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-147573-8). Her other research interests include security experimentation, worm simulation, IP spoofing defenses and privacy-safe data sharing.

Contact Info:
Jelena Mirkovic, Ph.D.
Computer Scientist
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
310-448-9170

Deirdre K. Mulligan comes to the I School from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was a clinical professor of law and the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. She served previously as staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington.

Professor Mulligan’s current research agenda focuses on information privacy and security. Current projects include qualitative interviews to understand the institutionalization and management of privacy within corporate America, and role of law in corporate information security policy and practice. Other areas of current research include digital rights management technology and privacy and security issues in sensor networks and visual surveillance systems, and alternative legal strategies to advance network security.

Recent publications include: “Privacy Decision Making in Administrative Agencies”, Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre K. Mulligan, 75 U. CHI. L. REV. 75 (2008; “The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident”, Deirdre K. Mulligan & Aaron K. Perzanowski, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22, p. 1157, (2007); . “Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport”, Marci Meingast, Jennifer King and Deirdre K. Mulligan, IEEE International Conference on RFID, March, 2007; “Transactional Confidentiality in Sensor Networks," Sameer Pai, Marci Meingast, Tanya Roosta, Sergio Bermudez, Stephen B. Wicker, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Shankar Sastry, IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 28-35, Jul/Aug, 2008; “Noticing Notice: A large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements”, Nathan Good, Jens Grossklags, Deirdre K. Mulligan and Joe Konstan, In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'07), San Jose, CA, April 28 - May 3, 2007, pp. 607-616.

Mulligan is currently participating in a multi-stakeholder initiative, the Global Network Initiative, to advance and preserve freedom of expression and privacy through collaborative efforts aimed to resist government efforts that seek to enlist companies in acts of censorship and surveillance in violation of international human rights standards.

During the summer of 2007 Mulligan was a member of an expert team charged by the California Secretary of State to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the voting systems certified for use in California elections. This review investigated the security, accuracy, reliability and accessibility of electronic voting systems used in CA.

The reports can be found at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm

Mulligan was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Authentication Technology and Its Privacy Implications; the Federal Trade Commission’s Federal Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and the National Task Force on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information. She was a vice-chair of the California Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices and chaired the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) Conference in 2004. She is currently a member of the California Office of Privacy Protection’s Advisory Council and a co-chair of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. She serves on the board of the California Voter Foundation and on the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Contact Info:

Deirdre K. Mulligan, Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of California
212 South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

Email: dkm@ischool.berkeley.edu
Telephone: (510) 642-0499