Below are the ICCWS Biographies of the Conference and Programme Chairs, Key Note Speakers and Mini-Track Chairs.
Dr. Stephanie J. Blackmon is an associate professor, higher education leader, and technology researcher whose work focuses on privacy and technology integration; technology integration in college and university teaching and learning; technology integration in training; educational technology such as learning management systems (LMSs) and various course types such as massive open online courses (MOOCs); ethical integration of technology such as learning analytics and artificial intelligence; and leadership and experiential learning in technology and cybersecurity workforce development. Dr. Blackmon’s research often involves working with interdisciplinary teams, and she has been a lead PI on several grants related to trust, privacy, and experiential learning in technology and co-PI on grants related to AI and workforce development, and cyber-clinic design and delivery. Dr. Blackmon’s work also involves policy and framework development designed to support ethical technology integration, as well as ethical technological development.
Dr. Saltuk Karahan is the Undergraduate Program Director of the School of Cybersecurity at Old Dominion University (ODU). He is also the Cybersecurity Education Research Director for COVA CCI (Commonwealth Cyber Initiative). He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, including Cyber War, Leadership and Management in Cybersecurity, and Advanced Cyber Law and Policy at ODU. He is a Co-PI on the NSF-funded CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Project that aims to increase the federal, state, local, and tribal workforce in cybersecurity. Before joining ODU, Dr. Karahan assumed leadership positions at NATO's Allied Command Transformation. Dr. Karahan’s research interests and projects focus on the central themes of the interdisciplinary approach to cybersecurity education and how the developments in information security technology impact international security.
Key Note Speakers
Sandy J. Radesky serves as the Associate Director for Vulnerability Management at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, she leads CISA’s Vulnerability Management mission most known for its sponsorship of globally valuable cybersecurity efforts such as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, CISA’s central high-confidence tracker of vulnerabilities known to be exploited by adversaries. She also leads CISA teams who execute the nation’s most illuminating penetration, risk, red team, and operational technology assessments. Her expert experience has enabled recent optimizations to scale attack surface management and assessment services to tens of thousands of critical infrastructure stakeholders. Her strategic vision and outcome-focused leadership has enabled cyber awareness and risk reduction, proactively strengthening the nation’s critical infrastructure. Prior to this, Sandy served as the Deputy Command Information Officer (CIO) for US Fleet Cyber Command and US TENTH Fleet. She managed the cyber portfolio to enable full spectrum Cyberspace Operations. Her efforts improved, integrated, and directly supported joint warfighters, national-level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across global cyberspace operations. Notably, Sandy was selected by the Joint Staff for a Senior Executive assignment as the Director of Information and Technology and Analytics supporting the National COVID-19 response effort in the Countermeasures Acceleration Group (CAG) formerly known as Operation Warp Speed. She led a team of data scientists, logisticians and technologists who developed capabilities to streamline the distribution of over 400M vaccines and therapeutics to the American people during the rise of omicron variant. Sandy is a veteran of the United States Air Force, in total, dedicating over 27 years of service to the Nation.
Jeffrey Reynolds has worked for two decades in the area of defence transformation to help NATO forces prepare for the inevitable crises of the future with the fewest regrets possible. He help security institutions see the macro perspective through political advice, strategy formulation, geopolitical analysis, and future forecasting. The scope of his work is broad covering engagement with senior civilian and military officials to development of NATO military policy and strategy. In 2017, Jeffrey received a Meritorious Service Commendation for his work with NATO’s Partners. Currently, he serves as Political Military Advisor at NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk Virginia. His current assignments include serving as the liaison officer to the Pentagon and multi-domain strategy development. Jeffrey is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Founding Fellow with the Policy Insights Forum in Ottawa, Canada. His interest areas include North American security and the implications of the emerging Eurasian Axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea for NATO and Allies. He has degrees and certifications from the University of British Columbia, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, Harvard Business School, and the NATO Executive Development Program (Ashridge Hult Business School). Prior to joining NATO, he served in the Royal Canadian Navy and was an assistant to the Premier of British Columbia.
Mini Track Chairs
Dr. Joe Adams is the Founder and President of Cyber By Design, LLC. Retiring as a Colonel in the US Army Signal Corps, his career included postings as an Associate Professor at the US Military Academy and as the Chief Information Officer of the National Defense University. He created the Michigan Cyber Range and, most recently, took a position as an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. Joe earned a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a M.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His Ph.D. is in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Dipl.-Phys. Jan Herbst graduated with the diploma of physics at the University of Kaiserslautern. There he worked in the fields of molecular beam epitaxy, quantum dot growth and control programming. As a Researcher and Ph.D. candidate he is working at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. His fields of research are in Human-Physically Unclonable Functions (HPUFs), entity authentication, Artificial Intelligence, network and cyber security.
Christoph Lipps, graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, where he meanwhile lectures as well. He is a Senior Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, heading the Cyber Resilience & Security Team of the Intelligent Networks Research Department. He is not only a member of the committee of the ICCWS and ECCWS, but also scientific committee member of various international conferences, and reviewer of several journals. His research focuses on Physical Layer Security (PhySec), Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biometrics, Security for Medical applications, as well as entity authentication, Security in the Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Systems and all aspects of network and cyber security.
Arun Mamgai has over 20 years of experience in cloud-native cybersecurity, application modernization, open-source secure supply chain, AI/machine learning, and digital transformation, including balanced scorecard, while working with Fortune 1000 customers across industries. He has published many articles highlighting the use of Generative AI for cybersecurity and developing secure cloud applications. He has also developed a Balanced Scorecard based framework for CISOs, and has been invited to speak at international conferences and universities on various topics like “digital transformation”, “Application-level attack in connected vehicle ”, "Generative AI and Cybersecurity", in addition to being a judge in industry-leading events. He mentors start-ups and actively engages with a nonprofit institution that enables middle school girls to become future technology leaders.
Prof Nolu Mpekoa is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and also adjunct professor at the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Informatics, at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and an NRF Y-rated researcher. She has more than sixteen years of lecturing experience and has taught modules such as Computer Systems, Computer Security and Networking. She currently teaches Informatics and Information Security. Prof Mpekoa has a driven robust passion in the area of Mobile Technologies, M-Services (e-Government and M-Government), and mobile security.
Dr. Aunshul Rege is an Associate Professor and Director of the Cybersecurity in Application, Research, and Education (CARE) Lab at Temple university. Her research efforts focus on the human behavioral aspects of cyberattacks and cybersecurity, which has been funded by several National Science Foundation grants. She created the (inter)national Social Engineering (SE) Competition and she serves as the research lead for the SE Community at DefCon. Aunshul has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. in Criminology from Saint Mary’s University, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.
Dr. Char Sample is an assistant professor of cybersecurity at Marshall University. Dr. Sample has 40 years of industry experience beginning in software development, through product test and integration, and finally as a researcher (both applied and academic). Dr. Sample’s research areas are all cybersecurity related with an interest toward decision-making in cybersecurity.