Cyber Trust and Suspicion

Eunice Santos works in the areas of large-scale distributed processing, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, and human modeling with applications to the biological, physical, and social sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Institute of Defense & Security. She also served as Chair of Computer Science. She joined the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 after serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the US Department of Defense’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy. She is also the Director of the National Center for Border Security and Immigration (a DHS Center of Excellence). Dr. Santos was a professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Computer Science and the Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (GBCB) Program. She was also a professor at Lehigh University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has B.S. and M.S. degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Dr. Santos has received numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation Career Award, the IEEE-CS Technical Achievement Award (for pioneering work in Computational Social Systems), and the Robinson Faculty Award. She has also received multiple teaching awards including the Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is a past member of the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group, and a member of several DoD senior technical advisory committees. She has served as a member of the Research & Technology Organization Task Group on Psycho-Social Models and Methods in NATO’s Effects-Based Approach to Operations Programs.