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A highly motivated professional with 20+ years experiences on multi-disciplinary innovative R&D for DoD and other government agencies, product initiate and development, technology transition, program management, and business relationship building. Specialties: Cyber security, AI/ML, Wireless Networks/5G.• Experienced team leader and builder, successfully growing a high-performance talent team from 5 to 50+ members. Led a Network and Cyber Security R&D Division with 50+ Research Scientists/Engineers. • Experienced proposal writer and capture manager with track record of fundraising. Served as the Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI/Technical Lead with an established record on obtaining research funds from various DoD and government funding resources (e.g. Army, AFRL, WPAFB, Navy, DARPA, DoE, DHS, NSC, etc.).• Strong expertise on cyber analytics, vulnerability and risk assessment, and information trust. Cyber threat detection and investigation using ML/DL and Cyber threat intelligence (CTI), enterprise vulnerability and risk assessment, Blockchain and other crypto related techniques to secure supply chain system, and information trust using ML and signal processing techniques. • Strong expertise on various data science applications (e.g., supply chain risk, cyber analytics, etc.) by applying modern AI/ML algorithms (FNN, CNN, Auto-encoder, SVM, etc.) and tool chains. • Strong expertise on wireless networks (e.g., ad hoc, sensor, IoT, 5G, etc.) on protocols, information processing, cloud and edge computing, and security issues. • Experienced agile product development leader from concept to deployment. Led the product development team to develop product pipelines, embedded ML tool for RF signal intelligence and Cyber Threat Intelligence and defense tool suite by leveraging and extending R&D capability and adopting agile product development process. • Experienced program manager with 15+ years of experiences managing multiple contracts simultaneous (>$15M every year). Demonstrated track record of successfully managing small to large projects from start to finish.• Experienced business relationship builder with outstanding communication and coordination skills. Continually interfacing with government, industry and academic partners, commercial stakeholders on proposal teaming and technology transition.

Listed skills include Leadership, Network Forensics, Team Building, Security Research, and 43 others.