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* Partnered with management and key stakeholders to define strategic objectives and develop a comprehensive product roadmap. Oversaw budget reviews, led talent acquisition efforts, and monitored project progress. * Drive innovation, incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Machine Learning (ML) into the development process and products delivering technological advancement and market differentiation.* Collaborate with Customer Success teams to build strong relationships with existing and prospective customers across commercial, academic, and Department of Defense (DoD) sectors, ensuring outstanding quality of service and fostering long-term partnerships.* Established the integrated Activity Emulation team, unifying the development and automation of all emulated cyber activities - adversarial and benign. Expedited the development of a new user emulation architecture expanding user personas, functionality and OS support.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

* Led the Product Incubation team through innovation and product discovery processes. Working with commercial and DoD stakeholders, delivering 3 new products. * Overcame challenges and grew the high-performing Attack Emulation team, developing an industry-leading automated cyber-attack platform. Increased the size and diversity of the attack scenario portfolio (including ICS and SCADA), and MITRE ATT&CK TTPs coverage.* Directed research initiatives and proposal development, building strategic partnerships with collaborators and stakeholders and generated significant revenue streams.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

* Let requirements gathering, system architecture and design, and project management for a multidisciplinary team of software developers and data scientists (3 Ph.ds). Foster collaboration, ensure technical excellence, and oversee the successful execution of complex projects from conception to delivery.* Building Reinforcement Learning agents for training defenders and testing security products.* Use Machine Learning and network science algorithms to develop automated tools for identifying and classifying cyber assets in production networks.* Developed algorithms and tools for automated risk estimation, actuarial analysis, and scoring of cyber-attacks based on the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) framework.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

* Principal Investigator, led a cross-functional team of researchers and developers that built a bio-inspired distributed C2 for an autonomous swarm of micro aerial vehicles, leveraging a custom semantic ontology, automated planning, artificial intelligence, behavior trees, and high-fidelity simulation.* Integrated Product Team leader, developed a tool for analysts to prioritize and triage falsified media (fake news) based on user role, CONOPs, and threat models.* System Architect supporting a multi-functional team through the design and development of an evaluation platform for multi-domain battlefield resource allocation algorithms.* Write successful business development materials and grant proposals, and engage government representatives, performers, and other stakeholders.

Greater Boston Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Network Science Division, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate* Develop theories and models of human decision-making in anticipating, detecting, analyzing, and responding to malicious cyber activities. * Improve analyst-in\on-the-loop intrusion detection performance and capabilities through a synergistic architecture for intrusion detection. * Support and improve human decision-making in detection, cyber maneuvers, and warfare using a multi-agent approach, behavioral game theory, semantic technologies, and cognitive modeling.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

* Develop the science of cyber decision making: Study and model cyber defender and attacker decision making processes in cyber conflicts using behavioral experiments, behavioral game theory, and cognitive models.* Use computational ontologies to study how human decision makers represent network flows to develop cognitively inspired decision-aid tools for threats detection.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

* Investigate how cybersecurity analysts acquire, maintain and utilize cyber situation awareness when detecting threats.* Develop behavioral experiments and computational models of human cognition to explore attributes that influence cyber situation awareness. * Evaluate visual means and training methods to enhance situation awareness and improve detection of cyber threats. * Develop theoretical socio-cognitive computational models of adversarial behavior and conflict resolution using behavioral game theory. * Quantify the influence of information availability and type of information on exploration, adversarial behavior, and cooperation in social dilemmas.

* Lead a team of researchers and programmers that explore authentication methods, including biometric methods, and access control models in mobile devices. * Deliver prototypes and UI\UX guidelines for authentication and access control methods for mobile devices.* Lead the development of a content adaptation algorithm for mobile devices, integrating importance perception with information presentation.* Develop interfaces for a mobile eInk-based mews reader.* Develop personas, usage scenarios and requirements for extend ePub format allowing rich and interactive news reading experiences in mobile devices.

* Develop information system for tracking software development and testing processes.* Measure, analyze, and optimize R&D and QA processes. * Develop a decision support reporting system for senior management.* Manag and maintain the configuration management and version control processes.

Ph.D., Usability Of Information Security Systems

Dissertation: Modeling the Tradeoffs between Usability and Security in Information Systems

M.Sc, Human Factors Engineering

Dissertation: Exploratory and Confirmatory Processes in Rule Detection Task

B.Sc, Industrial Engineering

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory

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Education record