Dirk has joined The Research Center Formerly Known as Xerox PARC in 2001 after graduating from Princeton University, where he worked on mobile-code and distributed-systems security. Whilst at PARC, he has mostly worked on usable security, i.e. security mechanisms that users would actually use, as opposed to security mechanisms users find confusing or annoying.

Steven M. Bellovin received a B.A. degree from Columbia University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While a graduate student, he helped create netnews; for this, he and the other perpetrators were awarded the 1995 Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1982. Despite the fact that he has not changed jobs, he is now at AT&T Labs Research, working on networks, security, and why the two don't get along. He is an AT&T Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Bellovin is the co-author of ``Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker'', and holds several patents on cryptographic and network protocols. He served on National Research Council study committees on information systems trustworthiness and the privacy implications of authentication technologies; he was also a member of the information technology subcommittee of an NRC study group on science versus terrorism. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996-2002; he is currently the co-director of the Security Area of the IETF. He also works on public policy questions relating to cryptography, Internet security, and the Internet in general.

Brian is a faculty member at the University of Washington. His research interests are distributed systems, operating systems, and computer architecture. Recently, he's been focused on trying to make systems that are a little bit easier to use, and break a little bit less often than the ones he's used to.

Christian Collberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining Arizona he spent five years on the faculty at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and before that he received his Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden.

His main research interest is in how to apply techniques from the compilers and programming languages area to other areas and how to bring ideas from other areas into compilers and programming languages. He is currently developing the SandMark tool for the study of software protection techniques. It will eventually implement every published software watermarking, code obfuscation, and tamperproofing algorithm as well as tools for attacking and analyzing these algorithms.

In the past Christian has developed a tool for the automatic retargeting of compilers and the AlgoVista search engine for programmers. AlgoVista allows you to draw the query "What if I have this graph A and I want to turn it into this other graph B, what problem am I looking for?" to which AlgoVista might answer "It looks like you're shrinking the biconnected components of the underlying graph, and here are some links to information about this problem." Having recently discovered several cases of self-plagiarism, he is currently developing the Self-Plagiarism Tool SPlaT. Currently, SPlaT is a web spider that visits Computer Science Professors' web sites to search for research papers where the concept of "reuse" has been taken too far. Future versions will be used as a refereeing aid to help determine how close a submitted paper is to papers previously published by the same author.

In his copious spare time Christian sings, plays lead guitar, and writes songs for the Computer Science Department's band, The Undecidables. He also likes to tinker with the recording studio he is building in his living room.

John DeTreville is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he currently studies platforms and technologies for security, privacy, and authorization. He has also worked at DEC’s Systems Research Center, AT&T’s Bell Labs, and elsewhere. His work is much discussed on the Internet as leading to, for example, “a Digital Dark Age: a period of innovative stagnation where the majority of the world's computing population will become unwitting subjects and indentured servants to the profiteering desires of the new corporate ruling class.”

Li Gong is Managing Director of Sun Microsystems's Engineering and Research Institute based in Beijing, China. Prior to this assignment, he served as Chief Architect and Engineering Director for Java Security and Networking, Java Embedded Server, and JXTA, for which he has a dozen or so patents issued or pending and authored or coauthored three books. Prior to Sun, he worked at SRI and ORA. He served as both Program Chair and General Chair for IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, and IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop. He received BS and MS from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and PhD from University of Cambridge. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet Computing, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security, and a Guest Chair Professor at Tsinghua.

Steven D. Gribble joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in November of 2000, after receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under Professor Eric Brewer. Steve's research interests include the design and operation of robust, scalable Internet infrastructure and services, applications of virtual machines, mobile computing, distributed systems, and operating systems. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Physics from the University of British Columbia, and his M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He is an ACM and USENIX member, and was a co-founder of ProxiNet, Inc. (now a division of PumaTech).

Matthias Jacob is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Princeton University under supervision of Ed Felten. He received an M.A. in Computer Science from Princeton in 2000 and a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1997. His research interests include systems security, software protection, tamper-resistant software, and code obfuscation. At the moment he is working with the security group at Stanford.

Dick Kemmerer is a Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UCSB. His research interests are in computer and network security and reliability, privacy issues, the specification and verification of systems, specification language design, and software engineering.  Dick is a past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has served as a member of several National Academy of Science committees on Computer Security. He has also served as a member of the National Computer Security Center's Formal Verification Working Group and was a member of the NIST's Computer and Telecommunications Security Council. Dick is also a past Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and a past member of the Advisory Board for the ACM's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control, and a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. He has written numerous papers on the subjects of computer security, and he is the author of the book "Formal Specification and Verification of an Operating System Security Kernel" and a co-author of "Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age." He is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Angelos Keromytis has been an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University since 2001. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania (2001), and his B.Sc. from the University of Crete, Greece (1996). His research revolves around end-point security mechanisms, cryptographic protocols, and operating system support for security.

Darko Kirovski received his Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at the University of California in Los Angeles in January 2001. He joined Microsoft Research in April 2000. His research interests include: secure systems, software delivery, multimedia processing and applications, intellectual property protection, and embedded system design. He has been awarded the 1998-2000 Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship, the 1999-2000 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Graduate Scholarship, and the 2001 ACM Outstanding PhD dissertation in Electronic Design Automation Award. He has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia 2002.

Jim Larus is a Senior Research at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Software Productivity Tools group. He’s been a professor (at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) and has worked in a variety of areas, all of which have some tenuous connection to programming languages or compilers (parallel programming, computer architecture, performance measurement, and most recently software tools). He blames this on his advisor in graduate school, whose plan file contained the line: “Apply compiler technology to everything: when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Steve Lipner has worked in computer and network security since 1970. His career spans the roles of researcher, consultant, development manager, technologist and business unit manager. Steve has also experienced the evolution of security from a research and government backwater to the stuff of newspaper headlines. At Microsoft, Steve has served as manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, leader of the Secure Windows Initiative team, and manager of the Security Business Unit’s strategy team. He was one of the leaders of the Microsoft Windows Division “security push” and the development of Microsoft’s secure product development lifecycle. His goal is to see the Security Response Center become as unnecessary as the Maytag repairman. Steve holds S.B. and S.M. degrees in civil engineering from M.I.T. and attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.

Dr. Tom Longstaff is currently leading research in network security for the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). As a member of the CERT® Coordination Center (an incident handling team at the SEI), Tom has daily access to the most up-to-date information on Internet security, product vulnerabilities, and intruder profiles in existence. Since 1992, Tom has been using real-world issues and problems to drive a research agenda that includes Internet architectures, security tool development, intruder modeling, and other basic research areas. In his active collaboration with researchers in other areas of software engineering, Tom's research brings a real-world focus to the abstract area of security engineering.

Since 1997, Tom has been investigating topics related to information survivability and critical national infrastructure protection. Publication areas include an overview of information survivability, survivability requirements, survivability in trade-off analysis, and coming attractions in information survivability. Tom has supervised Ph.D. work on information survivability and critical national infrastructures. His Survivable Network Technology project sponsors an annual workshop on information survivability that brings together computer science experts from around the world to focus on survivability issues.

Prior to coming to the Software Engineering Institute, Tom was the technical director at the Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. He completed a Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of California, Davis in software environments. His dissertation topic concerned automatic software connectivity based on a constraint-based system of data attributes. Tom received a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Boston University in 1983, and an M.S. in computer science from the University of California, Davis in 1986.

Udi Manber is Vice President and Chief Algorithms Officer at Amazon.com. Before joining Amazon in 2002, he was Chief Scientist at Yahoo!, and before that he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona where he worked on software tools, in particular for search. He is the author of over 50 technical articles, a best-selling algorithms book, and several popular software packages. He received three best-paper awards, a teaching award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, and the USENIX Software Tools User Group Award in 1999.

John Manferdelli has worked as a senior researcher, software architect, product unit manager and general manager at Microsoft. He has contributed include the development of the next-generation secure computing base technologies and the rights management capabilities currently integrated into Windows, for which he was the original architect. He also has worked in Microsoft Research and in the SQL Server Group. He joined Microsoft in February 1995 when it acquired his company, Natural Language Inc. based in Berekeley.

At Natural Language, Manferdelli was the founder and, at various times vice president of R&D and CEO. Other positions he has held include staff engineer at TRW Inc., computer scientist and mathematician at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and principal investigator at Bell Labs. He was also an adjunct associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. 

Manferdelli has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrew Myers is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1999. His research interests include computer security, programming languages, and distributed object systems. His recent work on language-based information flow has focused on systems and languages that are expressive and practical.

Radha received B.Tech EE from IIT Bombay, MS EE from University of Michigan and PhD. EE from University of Maryland. He is currently an assistant professor at University of Washington which he joined in 2000. He is interested in problems in routing and security in energy-constrained broadcast networks. His recent work has focused on incorporating the impact of lower layer effects on the security protocols. He also works on information theoretic settings of security problems.

Niels Provos is an experimental computer scientist conducting research in steganography and in computer and network security. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan and an active contributor to open source projects.

Michael K. Reiter is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He received the B.Sc. degree in mathematical sciences from the University of North Carolina in 1989, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1993 and became a founding member of AT&T Labs--Research when NCR and Lucent Technologies (including Bell Labs) were split away from AT&T in 1996. He returned to Bell Labs in 1998 as Director of Secure Systems Research, and then joined Carnegie Mellon in 2001. His research interests include all areas of computer and communications security and distributed computing.

Stefan Savage is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at U.C. San Diego. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Washington and previously was a research staff member at Carnegie Mellon University. Stefan is consistently out of touch with his own research interests: he used to focus on operating systems issues, only to find himself identified as a networking researcher, but since embracing networking he's been told that he's a computer security person. When not visiting workshops, he attends committees and participates in study groups. He is slowly learning how to say "no" with increased frequency.

FRED B. SCHNEIDER joined the Cornell faculty in 1978, where is now Professor and Director of the Information Assurance Institute. His research is intended to support the construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings--settings where fault-tolerance and security are critical.

Schneider has served as editor-in-chief of Distributed Computing, and he currently serves as co-managing editor of the Springer-Verlag Texts and Monographs in Computer Science series and Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security and Privacy, as well as being a member of the editorial boards for ACM Computing Surveys, High Integrity Systems, Information Processing Letters, and Annals of Software Engineering. He is co-author (with D. Gries) of the introductory text, "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math", author of the monograph, "On Concurrent Programming", and chaired the NRC study on Information Systems Trustworthiness as well as editing their final report "Trust in Cyberspace".

A fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Schneider is also a professor-at-large at the University of Tromso (Norway). Schneider has served on technical advisory boards for Cigital Inc, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. Schneider also serves in a senior advisory position with Fast Search and Transfer ASA ("FAST") on matters of reliability and security.

Dawn Song is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Dawn's research interest is in computer security and applied cryptography, including Internet security, systems security, software security, and database security.

David Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. He and his Berkeley colleagues are known for discovering a wide variety of security vulnerabilities in various cellphone standards, 802.11 wireless networks, and other widely deployed systems. In addition, David was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard candidates, and he remains active in the areas of systems security, cryptography, and privacy.

Dan S. Wallach is an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University. Wallach studies security mechanisms for controlling malicious mobile code; he helped design Netscape's stack inspection architecture, now standard in systems from Sun, Microsoft, and other vendors. More recently, he has been studying security issues that occur in peer-to-peer networking systems, which need to be robust, even when some nodes in the network might want to take advantage of the network, getting more resources out than they put in. He also has an interest in finding all the holes in systems that seem inherently doomed to failure, including music copy protection systems and paperless electronic voting systems. This sort of work tends to require more legal and political craftwork than actual technical effort, but it's every bit as important for the world we seem to be living in.

Chenxi Wang is a member of the research faculty for Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2001. Her research interests are in distributed system security and information dissemination networks. Chenxi has served on the program committee for ACSAC, New Security Paradigms Workshop and ACM's Electronic Privacy Workshop. She is the recipient of ACM DC chapter's Samuel Alexander award for outstanding Ph.D. candidates in 1999.