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SAYAN MITRA is a Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from MIT in computer science. Hi research interests are in safety of autonomous systems, formal verification, and control theory. His textbook on verification of cyber-physical systems was published by MIT press in 2021. Sayan received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award, IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, a Siebel Fellowship, and several best paper awards.

ADAM TAGERT is the technical director the National Security Agency Science of Security Initiative. He sets the technical direction for research projects at 18 Science of Security (SoS) funded universities, leads the NSA Best Cybersecurity Paper Competition, guides the SoS awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair, and builds community with the SoS Virtual Organization. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy where he researched national cybersecurity strategies of small developing nations, particularly Rwanda. He obtained a Computer Science degree from Princeton University.

BENJAMIN UJCICH  is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He conducts research on topics in systems and networking security, network accountability, and legal and regulatory influence on systems and networking design. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020, where he was co-advised by Adam Bates and William H. Sanders