Keynote Presentation: A Navy of Things: The Role of IoT at War

Roger A. Hallman is a cybersecurity researcher with the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in San Diego, California. He is also a PhD Candidate under the supervision of Professor George Cybenko at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. His previous research efforts spanned applied homomorphic encryption, resilient cloud-based services, malware analysis, and decision support for cybersecurity. His current research focuses revolve around the application of generative deep learning to tackle modern source separation problems, and resilient multi-agent reinforcement learning. Beyond his professional life, Roger is an avid hiker who recently walked the Camino de Santiago. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and dog. 

Megan Kline is a cybersecurity researcher and Head of the Advanced Concepts Branch in the Cybersecurity Engineering Division at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific. She has worked extensively with DARPA as a Technical Agent supporting transition activities for delivering cutting edge technologies to the Fleet. Her research focus areas include homomorphic encryption, risk metric development, mobile application risk evaluation, and leveraging Model Based Systems Engineering for Cybersecurity assessments. Current work includes Micropatching of legacy systems, impacts to the Navy of malicious influence on Open Source Software communities, and automation of software certification. Personally, Ms. Kline lives in San Diego with her family and spends most weekends in the garden enjoying the sunshine.