Senior Vice President – Special Projects at DarkMatter LLC, with 12+ years experience in information and systems security. International Experience: USA, Middle East, Australia, Africa, Asia Education * Ph.D. with Highest Honors in Computer Engineering from Princeton University * Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from Princeton University * B.Eng. in Computer and Communication Engineering from American University of Beirut Employment History * Lead Senior Associate, Booz & Company, USA and Middle East * Research Staff Member, NEC Labs-Princeton University, NJ, USA * Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson, NY, USA * Research Staff Member, Intel Corporation, Oregon, USA Cyber Security – Related Experience Patents: Optimizing performance of integrity monitoring; Patent number: 8949797 Analysis and design of a hardware/software trusted platform module (TPM) for embedded systems Energy and execution time analysis of a software-based trusted platform module (TPM) INVISIOS: A Lightweight, Minimally Intrusive Secure Execution Environment – A framework for defending embedded systems against software attacks Dynamic Binary Instrumentation-Based Framework for Malware Defense Hybrid Arch. for Efficient and Secure Face Authentication in Embedded Systems – Architectures for efficient face authentication in embedded systems Neighbor stranger discrimination: a new defense mechanism against DDOS attacks