2019 BASC Speakers - Revision history

Laberdale: Add Steven Pelletier

2019-10-15T15:58:32Z

Add Steven Pelletier

Laberdale: Fix Huang bio

2019-10-14T15:58:51Z

Fix Huang bio

Laberdale: Fix Mairzaei bio

2019-10-14T15:57:41Z

Fix Mairzaei bio

Laberdale: Update speakers

2019-10-03T16:54:51Z

Update speakers

Laberdale: Swap Joel Carson for Brad Giguere

2019-09-30T00:23:00Z

Swap Joel Carson for Brad Giguere

Laberdale: Add Chad Holmes

2019-09-23T15:20:30Z

Add Chad Holmes

Laberdale: Added Krishnan

2019-09-20T20:50:35Z

Added Krishnan

Laberdale: Changed Artie Jurgenson to 3rd person.

2019-09-17T20:25:05Z

Changed Artie Jurgenson to 3rd person.

Laberdale: Artie Jurgenson instead of Brian Fox

2019-09-17T20:21:21Z

Artie Jurgenson instead of Brian Fox

Laberdale: Added Tal Melamed's bio.

2019-09-17T04:12:35Z

Added Tal Melamed's bio.

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 '''HCL'''<br/>
 Rashmi is passionate about software engineering and applying it to solve complex problems in day to day life. She has a diverse set of work experience through past research, internships and full-time work experience that has really helped others in understanding the broader picture. In her free time, she volunteers and conducts educational workshops to teach young high school girls about the importance of Cybersecurity and encourage them to pursue a career in Computer Engineering.
 === Chris Romeo ===

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 === Kitty Huang ===
 '''Communications Trainer and Relationship Coach'''<br/>
-Kitty Huang is an award-winning speaker who has led several fun and effective communication workshops at MIT, Harvard University, and corporate training events. She has worked as a copywriter at advertising agencies, a screenwriter for a television situation comedy, and a newspaper journalist. Her perceptive mind and creative approaches have successfully helped many individuals to solve problems in professional relationships and personal relationships.
+Kitty Huang is an award-winning speaker who has led several fun and effective communication workshops at MIT, Harvard University, and corporate training events. She has worked as a copywriter at advertising agencies, a screenwriter for a television situation comedy, and a newspaper journalist. She is also a relationship coach. Her perceptive mind and creative approaches have successfully helped many individuals to solve problems in professional relationships and personal relationships.
 === Robert Hurlbut ===

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 === Omid Mirzaei ===
 '''Northeastern University'''<br/>
-Omid Mirzaei is a postdoctoral research associate in the Systems Security (SecLab) and the Research in Software and Systems Security (RiS3) Labs at Northeastern University, working with Prof. Engin Kirda and Dr. Long Lu. Prior to this, Omid was an assistant professor in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Also, he spent around 4 years at COmputer SECurity lab (COSEC) as a PhD student and he received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the same university. Omid's thesis was mainly focused on Android malware analysis and triage. Generally speaking, Omid is working and conducting research in computer and cyber security. However, he is particularly interested in mobile security, malware analysis, reverse engineering and applied machine learning in security. In addition, he is eager to tackle security issues from a multi-objective perspective, i.e. trying to deal with such problems by consuming the least possible amount of in hand resources. Previously and as an undergraduate student, Omid worked in a wide range of areas, from advanced software engineering to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Omid also developed several intelligent systems and passed different AI-related courses, including machine learning, pattern mining, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and optimization, neural networks and image processing.
+Omid Mirzaei is a postdoctoral research associate in the Systems Security Lab (SecLab) at Northeastern University, working with Prof. Engin Kirda. Prior to this, Omid was an assistant professor in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Also, he spent around 4 years at COmputer SECurity lab (COSEC) as a PhD student and he received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the same university. Omid's thesis was mainly focused on Android malware analysis and triage. Generally speaking, Omid is working and conducting research in computer and cyber security. However, he is particularly interested in mobile security, malware analysis, reverse engineering and applied machine learning in security. In addition, he is eager to tackle security issues from a multi-objective perspective, i.e. trying to deal with such problems by consuming the least possible amount of in hand resources. Previously and as an undergraduate student, Omid worked in a wide range of areas, from advanced software engineering to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Omid also developed several intelligent systems and passed different AI-related courses, including machine learning, pattern mining, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and optimization, neural networks and image processing.
 === Carson E. Owlett, OSCP CEH ===

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 '''Security Journey'''<br/>
 Chris Romeo is CEO and co-founder of Security Journey where he creates and deploys security culture influencing training, consults, and speaks. His passion is to bring security culture change to all organizations large and small through the creation and design of gamified security education. He was the Chief Security Advocate at Cisco for five years, where he empowered engineers to shift security left in all products at Cisco and led the creation of Cisco’s security belt program. Chris has twenty years of experience in security, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, penetration testing, and incident response. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.  Find Chris on Twitter, @edgeroute, or on LinkedIN, https://www.linkedin.com/in/securityjourney/
 === Izar Tarandach ===

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 '''Northeastern University'''<br/>
 Mansour Ahmadi is a research associate at Northeastern University. Before coming to Northeastern, he obtained a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Cagliari in 2017. His research is mainly focused in applying machine learning methods for systems security problems, especially malware detection and classification, and vulnerability discovery. He co-authored over 10 scientific papers. Also, He is the lead developer of IntelliAV, which is the first on-device machine learning-based mobile malware detector.
 === Chris Chagnon ===
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 '''Northeastern University'''<br/>
 Reza Mirzazade Farkhani is pursuing a PhD in Cybersecurity at Northeastern University. His research interests span a wide range of topics in systems security with a particular focus on software vulnerability detection, exploit mitigation techniques and binary analysis. Currently, Reza is focusing on developing novel techniques to protect applications against memory safety vulnerabilities. He is especially interested in new security features in ARM architecture to accelerate the performance and security of the current systems.
 === Gabrielle E. Hempel, CHTI ===

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 '''Black Mirage'''<br/>
 Gabrielle is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where she studied Neuroscience and Psychology. She worked for an institutional review board in regulatory pharmaceutical and medical device compliance, and led specialized committees targeting Phase I research and emergency research. She moved to IT consulting in 2018, and currently works as a penetration tester for Black Mirage while pursuing a certificate in Advanced Computer Security at Stanford. She continues to serve as a genetic scientist for NIH-regulated recombinant genetic studies, and serves as an instructor and mentor for a student cohort of cybersecurity analysts through Cybrary. She recently obtained her Certified Human Trafficking Investigator (CHTI) credentials through the McAfee Institute, and works with various law enforcement groups and task forces in order to combat human trafficking through digital forensics and analysis. Her area of expertise lies in GDPR/HIPAA/regulatory compliance and medical device security.
 === Kitty Huang ===

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 '''Sonatype'''<br/>
 Artie Jurgenson is a Solution Architect at Sonatype.  He spends his day to day working with companies small and large to apply the principles of DevSecOps and automation to their software development supply chains.  This stems from an intense distaste of performing the same procedures more than once.   Artie looks to resolve such redundancies both inside and out of his professional life which has led him down pursuits including: implementation of CI/CD toolchains and workflows from completely manual build/deploy processes, development and automation of crypto/forex trading algorithms, front-end test and deployment automation, container orchestration, API development, and computational scientific research optimized for supercomputer clusters.  Artie is happy to talk about any of the above at the reception.
 === Ryan LaMarche ===

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 === Tal Melamed ===
 '''Protego Labs'''<br/>
 === Omid Mirzaei ===