Moderator

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  Ralph Bouquet

  As the NOVA Labs Outreach Coordinator, Ralph is responsible for working with educators and partner organizations to grow and support NOVA Labs’ educational community. Before NOVA, Ralph taught high school biology and chemistry in Philadelphia and later developed web and mobile apps with the Canary Calendar team. Ralph received his B.A. from Harvard University, and focused on secondary science methods and urban education while working towards his M.Ed. from UPenn.

Participants

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  Owen Astrachan

  Panelist

  Owen is a Professor of Computer Science at Duke University and focuses on developing resources and ideas to enable students to apply computational approaches to solve problems. Owen began his career as a teacher at a Native American Job Corps Center and then became a high school math teacher. During his tenure as a high school teacher, he received the opportunity to teach computer science—which sparked his interest in the field. After completing his Ph.D. in computer science, Owen began teaching at Duke—where he continues to pursue his goal of creating the next generation of cyber-capable scientists, engineers, and citizens. Owen has also won a number of National Science Foundation awards including the NSF CISE Distinguished Education Fellow Award in 2007.

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  Terry Benzel

  Panelist

  Ms. Benzel is the Project Director of the DETER Project that evolves experimental network infrastructure and methodologies to support development and demonstration of next-generation information security technologies. These methodologies are focused on techniques that are repeatable, scalable, and verifiable within rigorous testing frameworks for cyber defense applications. Terry oversees the development and operations of the testbed facility and is actively engaged in outreach to the research community. Terry has served as an advisor to government and industry on R&D strategy and roadmap development, providing guidance to the National Science Foundation, White House Office of Science Technology and Policy, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, Department Of Defense and industry alliances.

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  Keren Elazari

  Panelist

  Keren is a Cybersecurity Analyst at Gigaom Research, where she explores the intersection of emerging cybersecurity trends with political science and national security questions. Since 2000, Keren has worked with government organizations, Big Four accounting firms, and Fortune 500 companies (such as AT&T, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Matrix, and Verint Systems) in the roles of network operations analyst, risk management associate, operational security expert, and product manager. In 2013, she joined Tel Aviv University as a research fellow with the Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security. Keren’s academic research focuses on the effect of new phenomena such as cyber weapons or hacktivism on global politics and national security issues.

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  Ashley Hamilton

  Panelist

  Ashley is an Application Security Engineer for Whitehat Security, where she manually assesses web applications for vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, SQL injections, cross-site request forgery, and more. Ashley got her start in computer science at an early age. Her father was a software developer and, as a child, she was inspired to teach herself about computers while watching him work. Things took a very different turn, however, when Ashley started working as a professional chef in San Francisco. After leaving the profession for medical reasons, Ashley decided to explore computer science again and began her tenure at Whitehat. At Whitehat Security, Ashley continues to learn everything she can about web application security and how to better protect the web from attackers.