professional service

Professional Service

Working Groups

  • Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) Working Group
  • NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) Digital Evidence Subcommittee
  • NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group
  • Cloud Security Alliance Working Group on Cloud Forensics
  • IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics

Reviewer, Editorial, & Advisory Boards

  • Committee Member, Study on Cyber Hard Problems, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Academies, 2024
  • Editorial Board, Computers and Security (Elsevier), 2020-present
  • Editorial Board, Digital Threats: Research and Practice (ACM), 2020-present
  • Cybersecurity Advisory Board, Bowie State University
  • Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Review Panel
  • Reviewer, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Reviewer, Computers and Security
  • Reviewer, Digital Investigation
  • Reviewer, Journal of Cybersecurity
  • Reviewer, Journal of Forensic Sciences

Program and Organizing Committees

  • Workshop on SOC Operations and Construction (WOSOC), 2023-present
  • Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), Cybersecurity Technical Group, 2019-present
  • Workshop on Cybersecurity Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2019-present
  • Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), 2022
  • New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), Publications Chair, 2021
  • Digital Forensics Research Workshop, Organizing Committee, 2013-2020
  • Malware Technical Exchange Meeting, Organizing Committee, 2011-2015
  • USENIX Enigma Conference, 2017
  • USENIX Security, Program Committee, 2015

Professional Societies

  • AAFS Awards Committee 2016Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Fellow
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Member
  • Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, Member
  • Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Member
  • Sigma Xi
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Academic Advising

  • Margaret Gratian, University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. Committee Member
  • Steven Snyder, National Intelligence University, M.S. Committee Member
  • Sruthi Bandi, University of Maryland, College Park, M.S. Committee Member

Community Service

Honors and Awards

  • 2022 UMBC, Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in Engineering & Information Technology
  • 2018 Scholarship For Service (SFS) Hall of Fame
  • 2017 Daily Record’s Innovator of the Year
  • 2017 Iowa State University, Young Alumni Award
  • 2017 Hope College, Young Alumni Award
  • 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • 2016 Daily Record’s VIP List: Successful Before 40
  • 2016 Director of National Intelligence, JSCoRE Best Paper Award
  • 2014 2nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2013 Director of National Intelligence, Galileo Award
  • 2013 Department of Defense, David O. Cooke Excellence in Public Administration Award
  • 2013 Global Cyberlympics, North American Regional Champion
  • 2012 American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Outstanding Case Study Award
  • 2012 UMBC Department of Computer Science, Best Research by a PhD Student
  • 2011 Maryland Cyber Challenge, Runner Up
  • 2002-2004 National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarship for Service (SFS)