CSIAC Webinars - Cyberphysical Infrastructure Testbeds

Dr. Lee W. McKnight is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s iSchool (The School of Information Studies). He is actively involved with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Professor McKnight is a member of the NIST GCTC Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee (CPAC), he co-leads the Secure Cloud Architecture Action Cluster and he is a member of the NIST COVID19 Task Force. Via these various activities, Lee is making contributions to the NIST Office of Cyberphysical Systems Smart City and Community Framework series standards. Dr. McKnight is also the Faculty Advisor to the Worldwide Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Club (WiTec) and an Affiliate of the Institute for Security Policy and Law (ISPL). Lee lectures annually at MIT on innovation. He is co-inventor of the Internet Backpack as well as edgeware for creating secure ad hoc overlay cloud to edge (cyberphysical) applications, services, and things. Dr. McKnight received his Ph.D. in 1989 from MIT, his M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Bologna and Washington, DC) in 1981 and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Tufts University in 1978.

Dr. Erica M. Mitchell is the Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources Research Group leader at the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, and an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.  She has worked for the Department of Defense in various capacities from junior communications manager to project lead on two DoD-wide programs, one implementing two-factor authentication and another developing and implementing host mitigations. Her primary research project at the Army Cyber Institute is the Jack Voltaic research series, focused on public-private partnerships and inter-dependencies in critical infrastructure protection and resilience. Additionally, she studies human factors in Internet of Things security intentions. She has a PhD in Information Science and Technology and Master of Science in Information Management from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science in American Legal Systems from the United States Military Academy at West Point. She maintains the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Security+ certifications.

Dr. Linton Wells serves as Executive Advisor for the C4I & Cyber Center at George Mason University.  Dr. Wells is a Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. Previously he was the Director of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at NDU. Dr. Wells completed more than 51 years of service with the Department of Defense in June 2014, including duty as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information (NII) as well as for Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I). He also served as Assistant Secretary (acting) and DoD Chief Information Officer. In 26 years of naval service he commanded a destroyer squadron and a guided missile destroyer.

Dr. Brittany Kmush has PhD in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her areas of specialization include infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine development and application, and maternal-child health. For the past 8 years, she has been focused on the elimination and control of hepatitis in Asia, where it causes substantial maternal mortality.