I’m a research scientist turned entrepreneur working at the intersection of cyber security and data science. Currently working in a research and engineering organization to solve hard problems that help companies defend their ever growing and fragmented SaaS space. If you're looking to engage with talented engineers and data scientist where your skills will grow and your work directly impacts the business, this is a great place to be.
Always looking for smart, motivated people who want to help on the journey from startup to enterprise. You can view our open positions at https://www.obsidiansecurity.com/careers/ or you can reach out to me directly.
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Advisor
HiddenLayer
Jul 2022 - Current(4 years 4 months)
Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer
Obsidian Security
May 2017 - Current(9 years 6 months)
Partnering with Greylock, Wing, Google Ventures, Norwest, Menlo and IVP to help enterprises defend their SaaS portfolio. Helping build and guide the Research and Engineering efforts to solve some hard problems in this space.
Advisory Board Member
Cylance Inc
May 2017 - Feb 2019(1 year 10 months)
Chief Data Scientist
Cylance Inc
Oct 2012 - May 2017(4 years 8 months)
One of the first handful of employees to join. Led the research efforts to bring modern machine learning techniques to the endpoint security space. Helped grow the company from an idea to a billion dollar + exit.
Computer Scientist
US Federal Government
Feb 2006 - Oct 2012(6 years 9 months)
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Research Assistant
Experimental Game Laboratory
Jan 2004 - Aug 2004(8 months)
Education
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Ph.D. (unfinished, Computer Science
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jan 2009 - Jan 2016(7 years 1 month)
Research focused on application of machine learning to various problems in computer security domain. ABD
M.S, Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2003 - Jan 2004(1 year 1 month)
Specialization in artificial intelligence and software engineering
B.Mus, Music
Loyola University New Orleans
Jan 1997 - Jan 2002(5 years 1 month)
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Applied Machine Learning For Data Exfil And Other Fun Topics
BlackHat USA Aug
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Deep Learning on Disassembly
BlackHat USA Aug
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Unsupervised Methods for Detecting a Malicious Insider
The th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Proceedings May
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Wavelet decomposition of software entropy reveals symptoms of malicious code
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High Dimensional Visualization of Malware Families
RSA Asia Pacific Japan Jul
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Behavioral Biometric Identification on Mobile Devices
th International Conference AC Held as Part of HCI International Las Vegas NV USA July Proceedings Jul
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Evaluating Randomness in Cyber Attack Textual Artifacts
eCrime Jan
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Structural Entropy Analysis for Automated Malware Classification