2009 Women's Institute for Summer Enrichment
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
WISE is a one-week residential summer program at a TRUST campus that brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and professors from all disciplines that are interested in Ubiquitous Secure Technology and the social, political, and economical ramifications that are associated with this technology. Thought leaders from academia, industry, and government come to WISE to teach power courses in several disciplines, including computer science, engineering, economics, law, and public policy. The one-week program includes rigorous classes and allows participants opportunities for career development and to network with their peers.
The 2009 WISE Institute was held June 16-19, 2009 on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, CA. A copy of the agenda can be found here.
SPEAKERS 2009
Rebecca Gurley Bace
Infidel, Inc.
Rebecca Gurley Bace is an internationally recognized expert in network security and intrusion detection. She is currently a VP within the Security Practice for In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. Intelligence Community. At In-Q-Tel, Ms. Bace is a member of a team of security thought leaders and investment professionals who leverage commercial security product capabilities in order to meet mission needs in the area. Ms. Bace's security experience includes over a decade of government service in the National Security Agency, where she led the research program that produced intrusion detection technology and successfully transferred it to the commercial market, experience as deputy security officer for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a decade leading the security investments team of a top tier Silicon Valley venture capital firm. She has written two well-received books, a federal standard for intrusion detection, and the chapters on intrusion detection and vulnerability management in the practice manual for computer security professionals.
Ruzena Bajcsy
University of Calfornia, Berkeley
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundation's CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering. In 2004 she became a CITRIS director emeritus and now she is a full time professor of EECS. Dr. Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine.
KC Claffy
University of California, San Diego
KC Claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. KC's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. KC received her PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in 1994.
Julie Earp
North Carolina State University
Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU. She is heavily involved with the The Privacy Place, the Institute for Advanced Analytics and various IT policy initiatives both on and off campus. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research has gained international recognition through best paper awards at international conferences and workshops, and through publication in outlets such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Security and Privacy and Communications of the ACM.
Brianna Gamp
eBay Marketplaces
Brianna Gamp is Sr. Manager of Security Architecture for eBay Marketplaces. In this role, she works with the business and technology organizations to design and implement security technologies and ensure that product changes are pursued in accordance with a risk-based approach to security. Brianna is responsible for many programs including researching new technologies for secure authentication, implementing a Secure Development Lifecycle, and ensuring eBay's current and future platforms have a strong security foundation. During her six year tenure at eBay, Brianna has managed teams responsible for Security Policy, Compliance, Awareness, Audit, as well as Site Speed and Availability in China.
Fran Maier
TRUSTe
Fran Maier is the Chief Executive Officer of TRUSTe, the leading trustmark and recognized authority on Internet trust and privacy. Fran brings 15 years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust online. Since Fran joined TRUSTe in 2001, the company has grown to certify more than 3000 web sites, including Microsoft, eBay, Facebook, Apple, the NFL, and AT&T. Under her leadership, TRUSTe has expanded its services from Web site privacy certification to email and downloadable software, and strengthened its compliance-monitoring services and dispute-resolution platforms. In 2008, she led TRUSTe's board and management through the transition from non-profit industry association to for-profit, raising significant capital from Accel Partners. As a co-founder of Match.com, she established credibility, safety, and trust in online dating, making Match.com the leading online dating service. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart's BlueLight.com subsidiary, Fran both established new start-up online brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet.
Brad Malin
Vanderbilt University
Brad Malin is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and is the Director of the Vanderbilt Health Information Privacy Laboratory. Among his sponsored research, he directs a data privacy research and consultation team for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) project, a consortium sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute. He has edited several volumes for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, a special issue for the journal Data and Knowledge Engineering, and is currently on the editorial board of the journal Transactions on Data Privacy. He received a bachelor's in biology (2000), master's in machine learning (2002), master's in public policy & management (2003), and a doctorate in computer science (2006), all from Carnegie Mellon University. Further details can be found at http://www.hiplab.org/people/malin.
Jelena Mirkovic
USC Information Sciences Institute
Jelena Mirkovic is a Computer Scientist at USC/ISI and research faculty at USC. She received her MS and PhD from UCLA, working in the LASR group, lead by Prof. Peter Reiher. She received BS in Computer Science and Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Jelena's research interests span networking and security fields. Her current research is focused on several network security problems: botnets, denial-of-service attacks, and IP spoofing. Additionally, she is interested in methodologies for conducting security experiments and she is working with colleagues at USC/ISI on improving DeterLab testbed.
Deirdre Mulligan
University of California, Berkeley
Currently Assistant Professor at the School of Information, Deirdre K. Mulligan comes to the I School from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was a clinical professor of law and the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. She served previously as staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington. Professor Mulligan's current research agenda focuses on information privacy and security. Current projects include qualitative interviews to understand the institutionalization and management of privacy within corporate America, and role of law in corporate information security policy and practice. Other areas of current research include digital rights management technology and privacy and security issues in sensor networks and visual surveillance systems, and alternative legal strategies to advance network security.