Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / University of California, Davis
Dr. Sean Peisert is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he leads computer security research. He is also both a full adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis and of Health Informatics at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He is also Director and PI of Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
His research interests cover a broad cross-section of usable and useful computer security and privacy solutions, particularly in enabling secure and privacy-preserving scientific data analysis and improving security in high-performance computing systems, research cyberinfrastructure, power grid and maritime control systems, and nuclear arms control monitoring and safeguards.
Professor Peisert is editor-in-chief of IEEE Security & Privacy; a member of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience; a member of the National Academies Board on Army Research and Development (BOARD); a member of the Distinguished Expert Review Panel for the NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition; a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group; an ACSA Senior Fellow; a steering committee member and past general chair of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW); steering committee member and past program co-chair of the USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET); past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security & Privacy; and a steering committee member and past general chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the flagship conference for security research.
He received his Ph.D., Masters, and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science from UC San Diego. He is an ACM Distinguished Member.