Advisory Board
The StackSafe advisory board includes leading IT Operations and computer science professionals, all of whom have had years of experience in understanding IT challenges and correcting problems in production environments in real time.
Anup Ghosh, Ph.D.
Angelos Keromytis, Ph.D.
Salvatore Stolfo, Ph.D.
Alan Wade
Anup Ghosh, Ph.D.
Anup Ghosh, Ph.D., is a Research Professor and Chief Scientist in the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University. Ghosh was previously Senior Scientist and Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he managed an extensive portfolio of information assurance and information operations programs. Prior to this, Ghosh served in executive management as Vice President of Research at Cigital, Inc.
Ghosh has served as principal investigator on contracts from DARPA, NSA, and NIST's Advanced Technology Program, and has written more than 40 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles. He is the author of three books on computer network defense, serves on the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, and also has served as guest editor of IEEE Software and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
For his contributions to DoD Information Assurance, Ghosh was awarded the Frank B. Rowlett Trophy for Individual Contributions by the National Security Agency in November 2005, a federal government-wide award. He was also awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions at DARPA. In 2005, Worcester Polytechnic Institute awarded Ghosh its Hobart Newell Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Profession.
Ghosh received his Ph.D. and Master's of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He received his Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Angelos Keromytis, Ph.D.
Angelos Keromytis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. Keromytis is the director of the Network Security Laboratory at Columbia, which is funded by several NSF, DARPA, DHS, Air Force and Naval Research grants. His current research interests include protection mechanisms against denial of service attacks, network worms, and software vulnerabilities, with a larger view toward system survivability and performance. Keromytis is the author of more than 100 technical papers and has served on numerous technical program committees and journal editorial positions.
Keromytis received his Ph.D. and Master's of Science degrees from the CIS Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete.
Salvatore Stolfo, Ph.D.
Salvatore Stolfo, Ph.D., is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Stolfo received his Ph.D. from New York University's Courant Institute in 1979. He has been on the faculty of Columbia University since that time. Stolfo has published extensively in the areas of parallel computing, AI knowledge-based systems, data mining and, most recently, computer security and intrusion detection systems. His research has been supported by DARPA, NSF, ONR, numerous companies, and state and federal agencies. Stolfo co-developed the first expert database system in the early 1980s, which was widely distributed to a large number of telephone wire centers around the nation. He led a large DARPA-sponsored project that developed and deployed the 1023-processor DADO parallel computer, designed to accelerate knowledge-based and pattern directed inference systems.
Stolfo is regarded as the creator of data mining-based intrusion detection, and as a major contributor to anomaly detection systems. He also developed new algorithms and systems to solve the "merge/purge" problem for very large databases and licensed the technology to a major database company.
Alan Wade
Alan Wade retired from federal service in 2005 after a 35-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired as CIO of the CIA, a position he had held since 2001. His early assignments at the CIA involved technical programs in the United States and overseas, principally in the areas of telecommunications and technical security. The last 15 years of his career involved a series of executive positions, including Director of Communications, Director of Security and CIO. While serving as the CIO of the CIA, Wade also served as CIO for the United States Intelligence Community. For his contributions, Wade received the Meritorious and Distinguished Officer designations, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and the Director of Central Intelligence's Director's Medal.