Sean Peisert

Dr. Sean Peisert is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he leads computer security and privacy research. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis and of Health Informatics at the UC Davis School of Medicine, and is Director and PI of Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

His technical interests cover a broad array of usable and useful computer security and privacy solutions, including enabling secure and privacy-preserving 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; member of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience; member of the National Academies Board on Army Research and Development; member of the Distinguished Expert Review Panel for the NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition; member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group; steering committee and past general chair of the New Security Paradigms Workshop; steering committee and past program co-chair of the Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test; past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security & Privacy; and steering committee and past general chair for the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

He was previously chief cybersecurity strategist for CENIC. In 2007, he was honored as a Research Fellow by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and in 2014, his work was awarded by the Director of Science and Technology for the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

He received his Ph.D., Masters, and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science from UC San Diego. He is an ACM Distinguished Member and IEEE Senior Member.