External Advisory Board

Uma Chandrashekhar, leads the Bell Labs Security Technology Applications Research team in Holmdel, NJ, at Lucent Technologies. Her team has responsibility for developing innovative solutions addressing reliability/security challenges in both wireless and wireline technology. Ms. Chandrashekhar has extensive experience in security program lifecycle from concept to systems engineering, secure data communications, operations planning, network management, and deployment. Her experience also includes leading the IITP (Interoperability Industry Test Plan) phases to support the reliability of the SS7 network, which included major industry players as part of the National Reliability Interoperability Council (NRIC) recommendations on reliability of the nation’s infrastructure. She has led and project-managed strategic projects from inception to market in the areas of network operations, reliability, security, network monitoring systems, and network management. Uma was the editor of the Bell Labs Technical Journal special issue on Network Security. Uma led her team to the development of the Bell labs Security Model that is now the foundation of the global ITU-T X.805 standard for Telecom industry and ISO 18028-2 for the IT industry. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering, and is certified as a project manager (PMP) as well as certified security professional (CISSP). Prior to joining Bell Labs, Uma’s working experience covers network operators, vendors, and research organizations.

Timothy is a senior supervisory computer scientist in the Information Technology Laboratory at the NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. He leads a research team in the Systems and Network Group. In addition to 25 years of work experience, Tim earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also done extensive graduate work at St Mary’s University. Having authored many professional papers, he is an internationally invited speaker and co-chair of the National Information Systems Security Conference. Former posts include special agent, US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Standard Information Systems Center, Air Force Cryptological Support Center, and Air Force Information Warfare Center.

Dr. Bill Horne is a Research Project Manager in the Trusted Systems Lab of HP Labs. He currently manages several research projects, where he is responsible for setting research directions and transfering technology to HP’s business units and customers. His research interests include network security, access control, risk analysis, cryptography, privacy, and tamper-resistant software. Prior to joining HP in 2002, he held research positions at InterTrust’s STAR Lab and NEC Research Institute.

Dr. Robert Roberts is Chief Scientist for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and Director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute. IDA operates three FFRDCs: one for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a second for the National Security Agency, and a third for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and the National Science Foundation.

Christoph Schuba has studied mathematics and management information systems at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim in Germany. As a Fulbright scholar, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993 and 1997, performing most of his dissertation research in the Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Christoph has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer and network security, cryptography, operating systems, and distributed systems at San Jose State University, USA, at the Universtitaet Heidelberg, Germany, at the International University in Bruchsal, Germany, and at Linkopings universitet in Linkoping, Sweden, where he held the chair in information security from 2005-2007.

Christoph has been working since 1997 at Sun Labs and most recently in the Solaris Software Security Organization at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He holds nine patents and is author and co-author of numerous scientific articles in computer and network security.

Mr. Walsh previously served as Corporate Executive Vice President of Strategy, Technology and Development for Ducommun Incorporated, and as President of Ducommun Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Prior to Ducommun, Mr. Walsh served in a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with Special Devices, Inc., Ensign-Bickford Industries, Thiokol Corporation and Lockheed Corporation. Mr. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, an Executive MBA from St. Joseph’s University and patents for aerospace, automotive and commercial mining and blasting applications.

Dr. Wayne Zage is the Director of the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Ball State University (BSU). Wayne has been conducting research in SERC since 1986 and has received over 30 grants to support his research in software design metrics. The design metrics technology was developed to analyze the design of new and existing systems in order to provide developers support for planning, predicting, monitoring and evaluating the quality of both the product and process of software development.

Wayne was the recipient of the BSU Outstanding Young Faculty Award in the 1980s, the BSU Outstanding Research Award in the 1990s, and the BSU Outstanding Faculty Award in this decade. Most recently he and Dolores Zage received a national award, the 2007 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the NSF I/UCRC Association for the design metrics research.

In addition to the SERC administrative work, Wayne is a researcher on projects that include global software testing in collaboration with the University of Limerick, Ireland sponsored by the National Science Foundation, metrics directed verification of UML designs sponsored by Raytheon, and software reliability and security sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.