David Balenson

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About David Balenson

David Balenson is an energetic and highly motivated professional with almost 40 years experience managing and conducting research and development of innovative solutions to challenging cybersecurity needs and requirements for government and commercial customers. Balenson has broad-based experience and background in critical infrastructure security and resilience, computer and network security, applied cryptography, and R&D program and project management. His current research interests are cybersecurity for critical infrastructure and cyber-physical systems including automotive and autonomous vehicles, experimentation and test, technology transition, and multi-disciplinary research. At USC-ISI, Balenson is a Senior Supervising Computer Scientist and Interim Director of the Networking and Cybersecurity Division, which is engaged in a broad program of research and development applied to pressing problems related to the interdependence of cybersecurity, networking, and social systems. He is Community Outreach Director for the NSF-funded Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation (SPHERE) project. He co-leads the NSF-funded Open Community Platform for Sharing Vehicle Telematics Data for Research (PIVOT) and Innovation and he previously co-led the Sharing Expertise and Artifacts for Reuse for Cybersecurity Community Hub (SEARCCH) project and the NSF-funded Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF) project. Prior to joining USC-ISI, Balenson was a senior computer scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at independent, non-profit research institute, SRI International where he provided technical and programmatic support for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T). Over his career, he has worked for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, SPARTA, McAfee/Network Associates, Trusted Information Systems, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. Balenson is on the steering, organizing, and/or program committees for ACSAC, NDSS, LASER, CSET, USEC, and VehicleSec. Balenson received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.